Nora Devon, a socially awkward and timid 30 year-old, ends up helping Cornell in ways I didn’t expect. This was a style of writing I hadn’t seen much of but in the end really enjoyed because of how it kept me reading. At first it’s hard to believe what all these characters will have to do with each other, but as they go about their lives each character intertwines in and out of other characters lives until their purpose in the novel is made clear. From assassins to friendly veterinarias, I had to highlight and go back to certain pages to keep from confusing each character too much. These questions and surprises kept coming along with a plethora of diverse characters to follow. Then, everything made sense and was completed in a neat package. After a goodnight’s sleep I picked it up again that following morning, happy that it was in fact the weekend so I would have the whole rest of the day to finish it at leisure. reading Watchers and only taking breaks along the way to make mint hot chocolate and get a snack. Cornell and everyone he has met through Einstein are put in danger, whether they knew it or not.Įach chapter left me with questions, and most of them weren’t solved until the end. The Outsider, a devious creature from Einstein’s past, starts hunting the loving and cared for dog. Throughout the course of the book the reader comes to realize that Einstein is not the only peculiar animal. Einstein can communicate in almost human-like ways and latches onto Cornell. In this novel, a golden retriever named Einstein befriends the down-out-of-luck Travis Cornell. In just the first 15 pages, the author Koontz had already intrigued me and made me question who all these seemingly random and unrelated characters were, and how they come into play later. However, by the end of the first chapter, around the time I would have given up on most sci-fi books, I was fixated on it. Since Watchers follows a sci-fi-like storyline, I wasn’t too excited to get into it. This is why the novel “Watchers,” by Dean Koontz, was such a pleasant surprise. I always get bored and choose a new book by the first chapter. I’ve steered clear from anything about genetically-altered monsters with doctors in labs as well as books with the storyline involving aliens like E.T. I have never been one to like science fiction movies or books.

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