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Odd Thomas has to be one of the most likable characters created by Dean Koontz or any other author for that matter. cities from nuclear holocausts from a handful of madmen. Preposterous compared to the first three novels which were all good.If one had not read this series in order, he/she would be greatly lost reading this book.Sadly it does leave Odd Thomas open for a 5th book. Koontz has in the past number of years changed his writing style, which is not a problem. Koontz, I beg of you, please retire Odd Thomas after this travesty. He's still excellent. Unfortunately, it seems Odd may have run his course & the series is out of steam.Mr. Odd, of course, saves the day.
As weak as this book is, the writing is still top notch.The problem for me arises from a very improbable story line & some characters that are so underdeveloped one wonders why they were included in the book.Picture, if you will, Odd out of his fry cook element in Pico Mundo, Ca. He now is charged with saving four U.S. Mr. This book does not do your literary talent any justice at all.
Odd Hours is book four. I love Dean Koontz and he has finally written a SERIES. I highly recommend the Odd Thomas series. Odd Thomas Series (Volumes 1-4)The books are entertaining, sometimes funny, suspenseful, and imagintive. You will fall in love with Odd as a little brother, son, friend, or fry-cook.
Koontz's skill as an author saves what could easily become a messy and boring story in less gifted hands. Annamaria's character seemed nearly unnecessary; her significance (and nature) left me perplexed. Odd Hours is perhaps the most serious Odd Thomas adventure yet. To keep the pages turning, Koontz introduces another couple of vivid secondary characters (Birdy, Hutch), some deeply introspective and beautful first-person commentary, and brilliant comic dialogue. Despite these complaints, I cannot give the novel anything less than 4 stars (I would get a 4.5 if that was an option). Odd Thomas is as droll and virtuous as ever, but his minimalistic character is deepened through actions that are both heroic and ruthless. The book does have its faults though.
the porch chair and storm drain incidents) were left undeveloped and their meaning unresolved. It certainly is the most morally ambiguous and wierd novel of the series. The supernatural menace aluded to (i.e. I'm ambivalent about this change of character, which gives the novel a somber and serious tone (in my opinion not exactly "Odd Thomas like.") The plot, much like the others in this series, does not drive the novel. I also find Koontz's premise, employed here and in the other novels in this series, that there can exist both unadulterated evil and pure good, refreshing and compelling. And, The Voice just didn't compare to The King. This story was fun to read from cover to cover and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys unique and well-written fiction.
Can't get enough of the Odd Series. Can't wait for the next one to come out. Love Dean.
I liked that he could see the bodachs, and they otherwise left him alone.But then in the last novel, 'Brother Odd,' Koontz added in some additional unreality in the form of the.whatever it was that was terrorizing the monastary. I'm beginning to get the same unpleasant feeling about the Odd Thomas stories that I got from some of the earlier Repairman Jack books; that instead of having one or two bits of disbelief to suspend and then the rest of the story being largely grounded in somewhat reality, there are increasing amounts of "not real" filtering into the stories to the point where it gets harder to say, "Yeah, I'll go along with that."In the case of 'Odd Hours,' Odd doesn't interface with the dead so much, as was pretty much the setup of the original premise. Instead, he begins to have prophetic visions and get embroiled in what COULD have been Grade-A weirdness, but turns out to be pretty much just domestic terrorism.I liked that Odd was pretty much just that - "odd." I liked that he could see (but not hear) dead people, and not necessarily know exactly how to communicate with them. The rationale for this pretty much seemed to be, "Hey, Odd's seen strage things - how about some completely from left field strange things."I didn't really like 'Brother Odd' for this reason.'Odd Hours' continues this "let's just keep adding weirdness for the sake of weirdness" while simultaneously having the course of the story play out over a single evening. There's not a lot of time for any planning, thinking, or even really responding to the stimuli that Odd encounters - he just sort of rolls with the weird flow.It seems like the end of this book is setting up some sort of larger, overarching plot line that I might have to just call it quits on.
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