Odd Hours | Dean Koontz | Great Odd Book

Odd Hours | Dean Koontz | Oddly Gripping

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Odd Hours

	Odd Hours Dean Koontz Bantam, 2008 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 170 reviews view larger image
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Great Odd Book

I adore Odd Thomas. It is quite possibly one of the most memorable characters for me out of all the books I read. Everyone else has explained why you need to read this book to satisfy your Odd tooth, and so eloquently I might add.

The only thing that really started to get on my nerves was the girl Odd hooked up with. Her vague hippy-ish answers were grating. I can't stand characters that embody the type of person whom I hate in real life. When asked a question, she often replies "What will be, will be" or something along those lines. Argh!!

The story is fantastic. It really draws you in to the point that you don't even want to set the book down to take a bathroom break or eat lunch. I sat down and read this book in a day. It was really that good. It's nice to visit with Odd Thomas.

If you're new to the Odd series, start with book one, Odd Thomas, and work your way to this one. Things will make sense and you'll have a deeper appreciation of the characters involved; particularly the weird things that always happen to Odd.

5 out of 5 for this one, even with the annoying girl character I wanted to choke. =)

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Oddly Gripping

Again, Dean Koontz give us a great story about our good friend Odd Thomas. Always a page turner, no dull moments. Boo is also a repeat characther guiding Odd out of danger.

Not as good as the first few

I will start by saying that this is the first product review I've written for Amazon. The reason I mention this is to show how compelled I felt to write about this book - in fact, I finished it just an hour ago.

Odd Thomas has been an excellent character in three prior novels by Dean Koontz. His first-person narrative draws in the reader, and although it leaves no doubt as to his eventual fate, the mortal danger and moral dilemmas in which Odd finds himself entertain as well as engage the reader.

Having enjoyed the first trio of books, I looked forward to "Odd Hours" for a long while once I heard it was forthcoming. However, I felt sorely disappointed by the ending. Was it a page-turner? Absolutely. But the nature of the novel, which was both suspenseful and morality-driven, caused Koontz to posit a number of questions for the reader - which he never answered. This disappointed me most of all.

I won't take it any further, for fear of spoiling the book. But when a novelist puts forth ideas which remain mysterious even at the completion, I can't help but feel robbed of the sense of denouement that is a trademark of many of Koontz's past works.

Overall, I enjoyed the book, but it just wasn't as satisfying as many of his others, including the three prior Odd Thomas works. It felt like little more than a set-up for the inevitable fifth installment in the series.

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