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Summary: Well written, good story and wierd people, just like Koontz
Review: I will never buy another Dean Koontz book!! I enjoyed this one until I was informed that I couldn't re-sell it. Koontz won't allow resale. If he doesn't have enough money by now, he never will be satisfied and I won't participate in his egomania.
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Summary: True Style
Review: He sees dead people...tries to stop upcoming disaster...
Once again Dean Koontz outdoes himself with this book. Your emotions run rampant and there isn't a boring piece to this entire book. Well done Man!! Well Done!! I want to also recommended: Everything Dean Koontz!!!
Also as a non-fiction reader as well,I want to mention Nightmares Echo and Lost Boy-both powerful!
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Summary: Starts promising, but then . . . .
Review: * SPOILER ALERT * SPOILER ALERT * SPOILER ALERT * Odd Thomas starts out very promising, and is well written to a point, but once it establishes the main character and his 'gift', it doesn't really go anywhere. One of the problems is, Odd does dumb things. The kind of things that make you actually speak out loud to the book. "Dumba**, what are you doing?" I know, some of the dumb things help the story along, but still, they are annoying. Another problem is that I never really 'feel' for any of the characters. I don't know if it's because they are underdeveloped, or if it's because they just aren't interesting. (I found myself wishing for more dead Elvis sightings.) By the time I knew what was coming 'the massacre/shootout', I was underwhelmed. I was expecting so much more. By the end, I found myself saying "oh . . .that's it?!?!?"
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Summary: There's no arguing, Koontz still has IT
Review: At a time when I was beginning to wonder if (after reading all of Koontz's books) his books were becoming too predictable, trying too hard- this book proved to me that Koontz still has it! As for some of the comments other readers had about the love story in this book, I enjoyed it. I didn't think it too over played. I found it very nice actually in that it added to the suspense & the greatness of this book. What I liked most about this book was that I don't think it was too "out there", like a few of his books have been. It felt totally believable & right. It made it so much easier to read than to be saying, "oh that could never happen!" Go out & get it, once you pick it up, you won't put it down. And that's pretty amazing for a 400 page book!
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Summary: ODD THOMAS, NOT ODD ENOUGH
Review: Odd Thomas sees dead people. They don't talk to him, but they help him solve crimes and otherwise make their wishes known. Unfortunately, for the reader, there isn't much of this going on in the book. OT starts out promising with a murdered girl fingering her killer for Odd who turns the killer over to the police. Then Odd runs into the Fungus Man who Odd learns is serial killer wannabe. Surprisingly, there isn't any communication with the dead to help Odd investigate this. Half way through the book, Fungus Man is found dead by Odd in Odd's apartment. Odd hides the body, lest police discover the corpse and assume Odd did it. Without assistance from the dead, Odd uncovers a clever group of Satanists who plot to take out a mall ala Columbine. A couple of rookie cops are the budding serial killers whom Odd eventually stops. And that's about it. Told in the first person OT does not delve into the characters of the killers, only those closest to Odd as they relate to his story. Though very well written, ODD THOMAS is intriguing but no where near as odd as it should be.
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Summary: Odd, Depressing, yet strangely great.
Review: I admit, I was some of the others were disapointed with Koontz's earlier works (The Face, By The Light of the Moon), but this novel was very engaging and well-written. Odd Thomas was one of the best characters I'd ever read about. But a warning, I thought the ending was depressing and sad.
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Summary: Odd Thomas
Review: If you like Dean Koontz books then you will like this book, its not one of his best but well worth reading. Odd Thomas is a great character not looking for much in life other than being a fry cook, cooking eggs to selling cars. A strange man comes to town and changes everything. A good book to read sitting by the fireplace turning pages and entering the heart and mind of Odd Thomas and where he goes from here is very interesting. Larry Hobson-Author "The Day Of The Rose"
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Summary: thrill-a-minute horror thriller is Mr. Koontz at his best
Review: Odd Thomas is no typical twenty-year-old. What he considers ordinary most people would consider frightening. On August 14, he sees Penny a young child and knows instantly she is a ghost. Penny points out her killer and Odd gives chase finally apprehending him. The sheriff, who knows about Odd's psychic powers, uses him as an able tool in crime fighting. While working as a short order cook in a diner he notices a man with badachs (shades that never lived and feed off of violence) hovering over him. Believing that this stranger plans to do something that will result in a lot of deaths he tracks the man to his house and finds a file with the date August 15 in it. Odd surmises he has less than one day to stop what he thinks will be a blood bath judging from the amount of badachs hovering in town. Only Dean Koontz can blend a thriller and a horror novel together and make a novel that is better than the sum of its parts. ODD THOMAS is a likeable character that readers will want to mother (or big brother) because he is weighed down by the gift he possesses. He believes he must use it to help people no matter the toll it takes on him. This thrill-a-minute horror thriller is Mr. Koontz at his best. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: A most odd yet interesting protagonist
Review: Odd Thomas lives up to his first name; he is a 20 year old short-order cook with the ability to see the ghosts of the dead and the shadowy faceless spirits he calls "bodachs," who gravitate toward scenes of horrific violence and evil. Odd is a very likable guy whose ideal future rests with his girlfriend and soulmate Stormy Llewellyn and with a career in tires or footware. Aware that his sixth sense is a burden that sets him apart and makes him appear otherworldly to others, he knows that he has received this gift for a reason. He feels a responsibility to make sense of the ghosts he encounters and to thwart the violence that the bodachs portend. When he spots a large congregation of bodachs converging on his home town of Pico Mundo, he has a premonition of great disaster. He hones in on a villainous and twisted "Fungus Man" who he senses will most likely cause the violence. He must now discover the time and place where the bloodshed will occur. He races against the clock to prevent a tragic outcome. Narrated by Odd, this story is at times gory, at times inspirational, at times funny, and at times bittersweet. Koontz is still a master at interweaving scenes of horror with humorous dialog and action. The ghost of Elvis materializes at incongruous moments. There is an exploding cow to add comic relief. The author portrays many humorous and colorful characters including Odd's oversized six-fingered mentor Little Ozzie and his landlady Rosalia who fears she will become invisible. As the author's writing career has progressed, his books have adopted more and more of an undertone of spirituality and religious optimism. His latest effort expands on this trend as he juxtaposes satanism and the paranormal with an uplifting message. Stormy talks about the lives that exist beyond this one, and she refers to this life as a mere "boot camp" for the tests and rewards of the life to come. Odd's ghosts are waiting in limbo, held back by unresolved issues before moving on to the next plane of existence. Odd acknowledges that there are universal truths more complex and meaningful than those of the material world. This is not one of Koontz's best books, but it is still a good one. The ending of the story has a slightly different tone than in his other books. His fans might feel a bit put off by it or perhaps more uplifted by it. Although I was in the former category, I still give the book four stars and recommend it for its eerie scenes and for its protagonist, who is so human and yet so unique.
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Summary: Beyond apt description of the unexplained
Review: I truly enjoyed this book. Once I received it and read the first 2 chapters, I realized I'd have to wait for a day or two where I could read it uninterrupted through to the last page. Odd Thomas is the kind of character that an author creates which just vibrates to life and make a reader feel like she knows someone just like this. So complicated they have to simply their lives to deal with the exceptional, so ordered that they come apart at the seams when the extraordinary goes beyond paranormal, and so wise that the most basic lost harms them deeply. I just enjoyed the way he told the story. He could have summed it up in about 10 chapters if his story telling didn't push me to wonder about the details he didn't tell me up front. I enjoy suspense crafted at a high pace. This was a page turner to be enjoyed. Hopefully without telling you the things which surprised me, you will just run out and get the book when you have the time to read it straight through. His assessment of death and what lies beyond it had a few familiar themes but what he mixed it with was refreshingly new.
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