The Whispering Room is a wonderful second book a new Dean Koontz series. I highly recommend this book, but strongly suggest that our read the first book in the series, The Silent Corner so you will have the maximum understanding and appreciation of the characters and the story. Jane Hawk, former FBI agent, continues her search to uncover a plot that involves mind control that makes well-adjusted, intelligent, and successful individuals kill themselves. Jane’s persistence allows her to connect the dots in this immense web of treachery. Jane is joined by Sheriff Luther Tillman whose town is impacted by one of these seemingly random suicides. The action is non-stop and the pacing is relentless. Koontz effectively uses parallel plot lines as well as multiple perspectives to create an exciting and thrilling story. Dean’s masterful prose are mesmerizing and envoys powerful images and emotions. Jane Hawk is one of my favorite characters because she is a smart, no-nonsense, relentless, and kick-butt protagonist. If you are a Dean Koontz aficionado, you will love this book. For new Dean Koontz readers, this series is a great place to start. I am really looking forward to future books in this series.

Wow! The Whispering Room picks up right where The Silent Corner left off. Jane Hawk continues her action packed quest to make a safe world for her son. The premise of this series is utterly frightening and utterly believable. I was once again drawn into the story, reading far into the night, unable to put The Whispering Room down. The ending was not what I expected, but sets things up perfectly for Jane Hawk #3.

This series is my favorite by Mr. Koontz because Jane Hawk is such a strong, kick-ass woman, but she also has a tender, loving side. Combining that with the scary, could be, nanotechnology take over the world plot makes for intense reading.

Another great read from Dean Koontz. In the mood for a creepy thriller? This is the series for you! Can't wait for the third book to come out.

Assumptions can be a detriment to a bibliophile. I try not to make assumptions when looking for my newest crime fiction read but I do. I see a book, the name of the author and automatically associate that author with a certain genre and move one to another book. I was curious when The Silent Corner (book one in the Jane Hawk series) by Dean Koontz kept popping up in my searches for new crime fiction reads. When I finally read the synopsis, I was intrigued and brought the book. I was pleasantly surprised and I found a new heroine to add to my list of favorites. The Whispering Room is paging turning, action packed, edge of your seat, crime fiction story with a realistic and plausible science fiction twist.

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DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: I have a material connection because I received a review copy for free from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for a fair and honest review.

The Whispering Room is the second novel featuring Jane Hawk, ex FBI agent who is now the most wanted woman in the United States. She is wanted for murder and various other charges that seem to pop up every day. Jane has been wrongly accused of most of the crimes and only kills someone if it is necessary.

The force she is fighting is more than one person. A group called Techno Arcadians wants to make the world a perfect place by creating peace through mind control. They have created a technology that will enable an elite group of people absolute power over anyone that has been injected with a nano-machine implant that will live in their brains. If the person is told to kill someone, they will do it. If they are told to kill themselves they will do it. There are unimaginable horrors that can and will take place if the few in power are not stopped. Jane is the unrelenting force that is pursuing them.

She has lost the people she loves one by death and another by separation due to the Archadians.

Tough as nails and willing to die if she has to, Jane uses all of her skills, those she was born with and those taught to her by the United States government when she worked for them, to complete her self-imposed mission. She has made many friends and made alliances during her career. She will call in those chits as needed through her ordeal as well as create a few unlikely alliances. But will it be enough?

There is a reason Dean Koontz is a best-selling author. The story is full of plot twists and surprises. He paints the scenes so vividly with his words the reader is drawn in immediately and stays with Jane for the duration of her ordeal. There are so many beautiful bits of description and subtle humor Koontz books are a joy to read. One of the best in this book in this book is when one of the characters loves his truck a little less than his wife, but more than his cat. I know a few men that feel the same way.

The supporting characters have a depth that pleases readers without even realizing the richness it adds to the novel. It appears effortless, but I am sure it cannot be. Therefore we can only attribute it to the talented Mr. Koontz. A couple of my favorites were Jolie, a very strong, smart young woman, Dr. Walkins one of the kindest characters in the book as well as Bernie Riggowitz. I hope I see more of all of them in the next book. And a brief personal note: thank you Mr. Koontz for not killing Dixie.

I have read many of Dean Koontz books and he has never disappointed me. I thoroughly enjoyed The Whispering Room. It is smart, well-written and entertaining. It is the first book in the Jane Hawk series that I’ve read, but I plan to pick up the first book, The Silent Corner.

Copyright © 2017 Laura Hartman

As in Koontz style, this one keeps you on edge and hooked from page one to the last!! In true Koontz style, it is all here!! A well written story with well developed characters and a superb story line that will raise the hair on your arms! I have to go read the first one now as this is a series and somehow I missed the first one, "The silent Corner. I can't wait to see more of our heroine!

Thank you, NetGalley for dishing out this awesome arc!!

Omg!!! This was another equally can't-put-down thriller as the first installment! My only disappointment was to find out there's ANOTHER book coming out which I don't have now and I need to know now what happens next... Jane Hawk is one my favorite heroines. She's tough as nails, but when we see inside her thoughts, we know that she's actually a regular human being with emotions, she just forces herself to tamp down on them to seek the revenge for her husband's murder. Sheriff Tillman was a pleasant surprise. And Grandpa Bernie, I hope we see him again. The ending, at least for me, was a bit of a shocker, I did NOT see that coming. Can't wait to get my hands on the next installment!

Another slam dunk for Jane Hawk. Dean Koontz has created a masterful female lead who uses skill, wits, intelligence and sheer grit to bring down a sinister and shadowy group bent on remaking the world into a horror show. This time paring up with a new ally, there are even more obstacles to overcome and a surprising twist. This series makes you re-think everything you know about conspiracies. I hope we will see more of both Jane and her new pal. It will be difficult to put this book down once started, so pick a day with a clear schedule.

I liked the first book of this new series but was on the fence about reading Book 2. I'm glad I did! "The Whispering Room" is a great, suspenseful read that I enjoyed more than "The Silent Corner." Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk will let nothing get in her way to clear her husband's name and protect her 5 year old son. She's unstoppable.

This is the sequel to The Silent Corner, which should be read first. I tore through SC in a day, just could not stop reading. I took more time with this one; not because it is lesser, just so I could enjoy it longer. Jane is still a badass and the plot still fresh and interesting. Koontz has an ability to make any plot seem possible, and this one moreso in today’s world. Highly recommend! Thanks so much for this opportunity to read this one, which is sure to become a bestseller!

I've been a long time fan of Mr Koontz and read his books as soon as I can. While I enjoy the new character and story line it's not as original as say Odd Thomas. However still an enjoyable read.

As I was reading this book, I thought to myself that it was right up there with books by the masters, such as Dean Koontz.

Then I looked at the title page and discovered it was written by Dean Koontz...

This is a remarkable book with great characters and extraordinary suspense. It builds inexorably toward its climax, with many adventures along the way. Highly recommended.

Jane Hawk is back, as fearless and tough as she was in Koontz's first book in this series. This time she is joined by a small town sheriff in her quest to discover the fiendish plot behind the multiple supposed suicides taking place all over the country, (one of which was her husband in the first book.). In The Whispering Room, Hawk finds that people at the highest government levels have been injected with the nanomachines and the race to find help to stem their power grows more desperate as she fights to stay under their radar.

The Whispering Room is everything I expect and more from Dean Koontz. The second book in the Jane Hawk series. The battle between Good and Evil has always existed and the author is the best at creating heroes and heroines I want to be read about. What humans can do to one another with the excuse of creating a better world, what’s more frightening than that? Jane Hawk is a fantastic heroine and the cast of characters in this book is awesome. I’m hooked!

I really enjoyed the first book in this series. However the second one was so slow I could not finish it. Just awful. Not recommended.

Dean Koontz's second book The Whispering Room, is even more frightening then his first book The Silent Corner about Jane Hawk. She is like a Hawk who swoops down and destroys the bad guys. The only trouble is that the bad guys seem to be taking over the world.. Jane does make many friends on her journey but always has to leave them as she hunts down the leaders of the group that are controlling 1000s of peoples minds. They made her husband kill himself and she is determined to punish and destroy those that did it..

In Dean Koontz's second installment of the Jane Hawk series, The Whispering Room (Random House 2017), Jane Hawk continues her quest to prove that her husband, a highly-decorated Marine, didn't commit suicide but instead was murdered. She's not only been fired from the FBI but they are chasing her as a rogue agent who is a danger to the country she used to serve. The fact that she has been threatened by the people she's chasing and that her son has been threatened doesn't seem to matter to them. that doesn't stop Hawk. She's more than happy to use her prodigious brain and exceptional problem-solving skills to track the people down that she holds responsible. She's fired from the FBI but that doesn't stop her from chasing the people she holds responsible for her

Hawk is one of those characters you don't meet often enough in thrillers.

"Life had too much meaning to process, that every minute of life was rich with meaning, crammed full to the top with meaning. Some of its meaning was as clear and poignant as a needle in the neck, some of such a joyful nature that your buoyant heart seemed capable of lifting you high among the birds, although much of life’s most profound meaning lay beyond her understanding, latent and mysterious. "
She's smart, driven, and focused on what she must do to right the wrongs. Very little gets in her way and almost no one can outthink her. For example, here's how she selected her car:

"The car had been stolen in the U.S.; significantly souped-up in Nogales, Mexico; given a new engine number; repainted; and consigned to an unlicensed auto-sales operation across the border in Nogales, Arizona. The car dealer operated out of a series of unmarked barns on a former horse ranch, and he didn’t accept checks or credit cards. Or make loans. She paid with some serious cash she’d taken away from some bad people in New Mexico. The vehicle’s GPS, with its identifying transponder, had been stripped out, so the Escape couldn’t be tracked by satellite. For now she was done with the San Gabriel."

As for cleverness, on a scale of one to ten, I constantly asked myself, "How the h*** will she get out of this one?" Though I didn't read the first in the series, I still lost little time getting up to speed on the plot and felt it stood on its own nicely.

One complaint though and this is a spoiler: The story doesn't end with the last page. It's only the beginning.

--to be published on my blog WordDreams around Nov. 15th

This is the follow up to Dean Koontz’s Silent Corner, which was in itself a pretty amazing book. Again, Jane, the rogue FBI agent, is out to save the world, but it’s a pretty monumental task being as how she America’s Most Wanted criminal and all over the news. The dystopian aspect of the story is an injection that sends little nanobots into the brains of people where they take over the people’s bodies. I’m eating this book up because I don’t see that part of the story as total fiction. I think that if not now, then in the very near future that this could be a real possibility. Anyway, back to the story of the Whispering Room…Jane is on the hunt for the people who are at the head of all of this mayhem and she’s not afraid to do anything, ANYTHING, to bring them down. In this book she meets up with an unlikely partner, a sheriff of a small town, who recognizes also what the world has to look forward to if this problem is not brought to an end. The Whispering Room is….well, I’m not going to tell….that’s a good piece of the story. The book does not seem to end in a cliffhanger….except in my mind. Jane and Luther have not totally succeeded in their mission and I hope that it will continue on in a third book in the series.

Wow! This story picked up Jane Hawk's mission and hit the ground running. I liked this one better than the first in this series - The Silent Corner. The conspiracy is much larger than she first imagined and more people she needs to try to bring down so that people won't be changed by these "idealists". Fast-paced and engrossing, I couldn't put this one down.

Thanks to Dean Koontz and Random House Publishing - Ballantine through Netgalley for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Dean Koontz' new series is amazing. The Whispering Room is the second book in the Jane Hawk series. The thrill ride continues as the action picks up right after the events from The Silent Corner. I really enjoyed the first book and this one is no different, I absolutely loved it. The Crooked Staircase is next and I look forward to it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, hoping this series gets developed into a TV series or movie. As a long time Dean Koontz fan, I hope that the Jane Hawk series becomes as epic and the Odd Thomas series. I highly recommend this series to all fans of suspenseful thrillers.