Odd Hours by Dean Koontz Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Odd Hours
Book Review: Another great Odd novel.
Summary: 5 Stars
Fantastic!!! Love all the Odd novels. Can't wait for the next one!! Hint for Dean Koontz to get busy on another Odd novel.Book Review: Another hit for Koontz....not at all odd.
Summary: 5 Stars
It should go without saying that at this point in his career Dean Koontz is an absolute master at devising and then executing a story. Throughout his career, Koontz has continued to develop as an author with each new story better than the previous one. In his Odd Thomas series this is certainly true.
It began with Odd Thomas, a strange young fellow living in a small California town of Pico Mundo and working as a fry cook. Then came Forever Odd, Brother Odd and now Odd Hours. Odd Thomas, the fry cook, has remained a steadfast character from the first book to the fourth even though life has not been kind to him. But while Odd has remained the same humble, innocent, and generally good guy he has always been, he has continued to develop as a character with new facets added in each story. Odd has had two companions, a ghost dog name Boo and his long time friend Elvis Presley. In Odd Hours, Elvis is seemingly replaced with Frank Sinatra.
In Odd Hours, Odd is faced with perhaps his most profound challenge yet. A dream and all encompassing red tide haunts Odd. At the close of Brother Odd, Odd wants nothing more than to return to Pico Mundo and resume his quiet life as a fry cook. However, fate steps in and he lands in a small coastal town of Magic Beach working for a former movie actor and author of childrens books. With terrific characters such as Annamarie and Brush Cut, Koontz has written another terrific page turner. Packed with suspense, a dark eerieness, fast action, and tight plot, Odd Hours will not disappoint. You'll have to suspend plausibility, but you'll enjoy this fourth Odd Thomas installment.
I highly recommend.
Peace always
Book Review: Believe the nay-sayers on this one!
Summary: 2 Stars
While I didn't read all the reviews of this book on Amazon, I agree with the one-star reviews. This was the most disappointing of the Odd series by Koontz. The story, while it did jump right into the action, dragged. There was clearly not enough material here for an entire book. And after all that dragging, the ending is left open with lots of unanswered questions that seem completely irrelevant--the coyotes, the bell, the sewer grate business. And the supporting characters were disappointments--a few of them had potential, like Hutch and the woman who gives Odd the gun--but they were not as well developed as the characters in the first Odd novels. And there are pages and pages of annoying dialogue with Annamaria, the new character who at first seems to have a central role, and then spends the bulk of the novel hiding. I approached this book with a mixture of excitement because I love the Odd character and apprehension because I thought the series might be getting stale, particularly after the third novel, which was well-written but the story was lacking. This one was not well-written nor was the story good. I fear that over the last 3 novels of this series it will just get worse. Read the other one-star reviews; they are not wrong. What a disappointment for a long-time Koontz fan. I gave it 2 stars because there was still some entertainment value, however minimal, being written from Odd's point of view.Book Review: Best Odd Yet!
Summary: 5 Stars
A mysterious pregnant woman, Frank Sinatra, and an engaging cast of new charactors - I devoured this book in less than two days! As always, the pacing is fast and suspenseful, the narrator wry and humble, the twists unexpected and the turns tantalizing. I would definitely recommend this book to both Odd Thomas afficianodos and new-comers alike.Book Review: Big Disappointment
Summary: 2 Stars
The first three books in this series were GREAT. This one is a big dud. It moves very slowly, which is hard to do considering how short the book is.
Spoiler. The opening water episode, which seemed to go on for half of the book, was uninteresting and unexplained. Bad guys try to kill him. Why?
The entire book appears to be a setup for the next in the series. I don't know that I'll bother with it when it comes out; I feel robbed at having bought this one.