Odd Hours

I have been such a huge Dean Koontz fan throughout the years and this has to be hands down the worse Odd Thomas book so far, the reading was tedious and not enjoyable the story lagged on and when usually he catches my attention and I'm reading the entire night through I had to force myself to finish this book. I thought surely the ending would make up for the lack of storyline but I was wrong

Sadly the main character in this book was Odd Thomas in name only. He had very little else in common with the wonderful character readers fell in love with in the first book. He's more like the pod-person of Odd: doesn't see many dead people, and runs around being action-heroy and shooting people. (Shooting. People. is so not Odd Thomas! He hates guns, hates even touching them, and hates killing people even more. This should not happen. It's not who he is.)

The plot was ridiculous and there were far too many "ooo, spooky, mysterious!" moments that were irrelevant to the story and never got explained. Having one particularly cryptic character turn out to be totally left as a cliffhanger was a particularly cheap and dirty trick, I thought. A cheap trick designed to leave you waiting impatiently for the next book - were the "cliffhanger" character not so completely annoying that you'd actually CARE what happens to her!

I'm sad to say this book was a waste of the paper it was printed on and the time I took reading it, because I truly love Odd Thomas and his earlier stories. Odd Hours is a blight on the formerly good name of Odd Thomas. I can hope there will be a 5th book that returns the series to its former enjoyable quality, but I won't hold my breath.

STILL waiting on the next Christopher Snow novel. It's been HOW MANY years now? Come on, I know I'm not the only fan waiting somewhat patiently for the next Snow book. It's long past due. I love Odd...love the banter between characters and Odd in general. I love the dead stars that can't move on, the dog boo, love the whole book, but am ready for a change. Give me Snow!!!

Odd, that dear lovable guy and his tender heart are finally fighting back
watch out bad boys, here he comes !! a Must !!

probably his worst novel of all time. the story line is weak. obviously written to please his pushy publishers to meet their summer demand.