{"id":352,"date":"2007-12-06T14:50:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T19:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/06\/darkest-evening-of-the-year-by-dean-koontz\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T14:50:49","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T19:50:49","slug":"darkest-evening-of-the-year-by-dean-koontz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Darkest Evening Of The Year&#8221;, by Dean Koontz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/koont5z.jpg\" title=\"koont5z.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/koont5z.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"koont5z.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Dean Koontz has expanded in recent years from his straight horror. Some of his fans like this and some don&#8217;t. I happen to belong to the former group and his newest offering is along the same vein. Amy Redwing heads a rescue group for Golden Retrievers. Dogs are literally her life. Brian McCarthy while not quite as passionate, is deeply in love with Amy so her cause becomes his.  A rescue mission for a Golden named Nickie winds up opening the door to much more, including shared ties to a past that neither Brian nor Amy are aware they share. This book is definitely a testimonial to Mr. Koontz&#8217;s love of Goldens. He and his wife recently lost their Golden, Trixie whom they had as a member of their family for many years and it makes certain moments in this book even more heartbreaking. I would say the only criticism I have is that the ending was a bit rushed. Other than that, I&#8217;m very happy to add &#8220;Darkest Evening of the Year&#8221; to my collection of books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Koontz has expanded in recent years from his straight horror. Some of his fans like this and some don&#8217;t. I happen to belong to the former group and his newest offering is along the same vein. Amy Redwing heads a rescue group for Golden Retrievers. Dogs are literally her life. Brian McCarthy while not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,24,32,42,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-horror","category-mystery","category-romance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-5G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}