Odd Hours by Dean Koontz Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Odd Hours
Book Review: Enjoyed
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoy Dean Knootz, Odd Thomas' series. As all the Odd Thomas adventures this book kept my attention until the very end. I recommend this book to anyone that likes reading Dean Knootz novels.Book Review: Enjoyed this Odd one...
Summary: 4 Stars
I absolutely enjoyed this book. The previous 2 Odd novels were a slight letdown and I still wish Koontz would dive into some of the plot that expands across all novels but otherwise this was a fun read. I'm still left wondering where some of this strange stuff comes from, yet we are left with just another good story.
This book takes Odd on a new trip, only this time the task is much larger: save the world. This adventure has some strange angles and it was more fun to read that the previous book.
I would recommend this to anyone who like a little oddness in thier readings. Great work Mr. Koontz
Book Review: Even Odd could not see the dead spirit of this novel
Summary: 1 Stars
First up let me say I've read many of Dean's books and find him to be a wonderful author most of the time. Indeed Odd Thomas and Forever Odd are two of my favorite books and Odd himself one of my favorite characters.
I was excited when I discovered another Odd installment was on the way and now greatly disappointed with the end result. This story was either put together in a hurry to satisfy the publisher or Dean has lost the magic touch and maybe Odd should of gone on to join Stormy at the end of Brother Odd (another novel that was far less impressive than the first two installments)
The pointer to Sole Survivor's little girl from the plane crash, the mystery train and Wyvern from Seize the night are nice little touches for Dean's constant readers out there.
This story moves so slowly it is painful, indeed at times I had to go back and read parts again to remember what was actually going on in between the somewhat bizarre events (I'm talking bizarre even for Odd) and the overwhelming amount of description of locations because I thought I'd missed something that would help make sense of the ramblings from chapter to chapter.
And sadly after 25 chapters I just could not take it anymore and gave up, maybe eventually I'll go back and see how it ends, but even a huge explosion of cardiac pumping proportions could not give this story the life and sense of direction it so badly needs.
I can only live in hope he turns it around for the next one or quietly leaves it alone rather than drag this much beloved character through the death pains of a story that is even more ridiculous than Brother Odd and more exciting a pace than this snail.
Book Review: Every Even Book Filler?
Summary: 3 Stars
I've read where Koontz plans to make Odd Thomas a total of 6 novels. I hope the last 2 are along the lines of the first and third novels. While not as disappointing as Forever Odd, there are similarities. The beginning of the book involves an overly long and involved chase scene. While much of this book has the wonderfully witty and wacky conversations that endear so many to Odd, there are so many loose ends flopping around at the end of the book that it is hard to understand what the real point of this book was. After reading Forever, I felt like the book was simply filler leading to an excuse to drive Odd out of his hometown and into the larger world. This book is much the same. Simply filler being used to introduce Odd to characters and trauma that will obviously lead to the real story in the next couple books. I still enjoyed this book much more than Forever Odd, and it had plenty in it starting at the halfway point to make it an enjoyable read, but as one other reviewer stated, If I wasn't both a Koontz and Odd fan, I probably wouldn't have made it past the first third of this book.Book Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
As usual Dean Koontz is remarkable, this character Odd is a Hero and is such a kindhearted and very deep minded individual. A movie would be a hit, as is Dean and his dear Trixie.....and her book...Bliss.