![]() Kipp, the dog, is drawn with skill and love. The villains are self-centered, lustful, greedy, and abhorrent. He is flawed and brilliant, sweet and vulnerable. Woody is developed with a soft touch that makes him likable and admirable. There is also a corrupt attorney general, a corrupt sheriff, and a corrupting billionaire, and all of them are converging on Woody and Megan.ĭevoted highlights both Dean Koontz’s strengths and weaknesses as a storyteller. ![]() ![]() Its single survivor is a tech millionaire with a fixation on Megan and a degenerating mind. In another Northern California town, Kipp, a Golden Retriever with human-like intelligence hears Woody’s murmurings telepathically on “the wire.” In central Utah a super-secret research facility explodes. While Woody is snooping on the dark web, he tips his hand to the “bad hats.” His father’s death was determined to be an accident, but Woody has compiled a dossier of evidence proving that his father was murdered. He and his mother, Megan, moved to a small Northern California town when Woody’s father was killed in a helicopter crash two years earlier. Woody has never spoken to or willingly touched another person. ![]() ![]() Woody Bookman is a high-functioning, autodidactic autistic 11-year-old boy with an astronomical IQ. Devoted is a sprawling and flawed (but still entertaining) thriller by the master of the genre, Dean Koontz. ![]()
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