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monnie1976 's review for:
Devoted
by Dean Koontz
This is a hard book for me to review. It kept me reading and it was suspenseful but there were also a lot of flaws in execution that made me cringe even as I kept turning the pages Koontz has a tendency to get lazy in his characterization so that the bad guys are really bad and the good guys are really good. I feel like the lead characters in this were so similar to Travis and Nora from Watchers that Koontz could almost sue himself. Ben is a prior military guy who finds a smart dog, the woman is an artist who needs his care (although she does have a special needs child a la The Bad Place). It just feels like he cut and pasted a lot of his previous books, shuffled the plot points and wrote what ever he drew from the pile.
There is one really cool idea in this book that made it more interesting and kept me turning the pages but I have my doubts on if that would ever be capitalized on in the future. This idea would have also benefited from actually tying back into the book this book cribbed most of it's plot from and expanded on the lineage of Einstein from the first book and talked more about the dogs than the humans.
Even though I am not impressed with a lot of things about this book at the end of the day it did keep me entertained. I just wish Koontz was as good as he was back in the day and put more effort into making real characters that seem like real people to go with his interesting plot ideas.
There is one really cool idea in this book that made it more interesting and kept me turning the pages but I have my doubts on if that would ever be capitalized on in the future. This idea would have also benefited from actually tying back into the book this book cribbed most of it's plot from and expanded on the lineage of Einstein from the first book and talked more about the dogs than the humans.
Even though I am not impressed with a lot of things about this book at the end of the day it did keep me entertained. I just wish Koontz was as good as he was back in the day and put more effort into making real characters that seem like real people to go with his interesting plot ideas.