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Odd Hours
By Dean Koontz
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Odd Oddities
I am not the biggest Dean Koontz fan by any stretch of the means. However, after Odd Thomas was recommended to me by a friend, I became hooked on Oddy. The first book, as usual, was the best out of the ‘manuscripts’ so far. But, Odd Hours comes in at a strong second. I enjoyed this book more than the last two which I felt were pushed and stretched in their plots. I was surprised at how fast the book began and continued to move throughout the novel. The first chapter begins and it keeps a pretty steady pace throughout. You meet some new and interesting characters along the way. The high actions scenes come with a few unexpected twists. However, I thought the end was a little anti-climatic which is why I rated this four stars instead of five. Without spoiling the end, I will say that Odd Thomas fans shouldn’t be disappointed with the fourth edition of Oddy.

Odd’s Thoughts Make for Oddly Entertaining Book
In the fourth installment of the Odd Thomas series the young quipster has a vision of the apocalypse and is drawn to a pregnant, young woman named Annamaria who may be able to help him keep the vision from becoming reality. Or maybe he is supposed to help her. Annamaria seems to know a great deal about Odd and apparently has some psychic abilities of her own.

Along the way we meet some other interesting characters including Frank Sinatra’s ghost and a self-absorbed, yet charming, old actor who has provided a new home for Odd. None of the new characters are as mysterious as Annamaria, though. We don’t learn enough about her in “Odd Hours”, but it certainly sounds like she will be a part of any future Odd Thomas novels.

The original “Odd Thomas” book is probably in my top 25 reads of all time so it would be too much to expect one of these sequels to come close to the enjoyment of first meeting Odd. “Odd Hours” is still fun, though. The general plot of “Hours” has been done several times, usually as an action movie…so there’s nothing really new there.

Odd’s stray thoughts sometimes get in the way of the story’s progress. It’s as if Mr. Koontz was thinking, “I’ve got to work in just this one more funny line.” It’s a slow-starting book, but is worth reading for Odd’s humorous view of the world. Those same stray thoughts that Odd has are what make all of the Odd books just a little…different.

Not the best ODD store
I usually like this story line. But I have to say it was a bit bloated and not a great story, sorry