YOUR HEART BELONGS TO ME (Dean Koontz) - January 19/09

WTF? Dean Koontz has clearly lost it, as Your Heart Belongs to Me comes off as an interminable 300+ page tale that feels as though it should've topped out at about 15 pages. Koontz has infused the book with so many red herrings that go absolutely nowhere that it eventually becomes infuriating, and although some answers do come at the end, the author's new-age spirituality transforms the finale into a laughable mess. The end result is a book that feels as though it exists only to serve its twist ending. What a waste. ** out of ****