Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

This novel is amongst Koontz very best. You simply fall in love with Odd Thomas.

The character is well developed and enthralling. I become "hooked" on this series and while I have read the 3rd novel, I look forward to the 2Nd and 4Th. Koontz has said that he plans to make this series extend into the near future with the probability of 7-8 books. I simply can't wait and Koontz can't write fast enough to please this reader.

You will fall in love with Odd Thomas and his "girl" Stormy. You will laugh aloud and feel the fear, isolation, melancholy and pain that Odd Thomas endures... along with moments of happiness.

This book will be something you will want to pass on to others and talk about. This book is narrated by Odd Thomas himself which gives you a wonderful insight into his personality, character, love of people and treasure of life.

This novel has some frightening moments and you are simply on the edge of your seat, turning pages and reading as quickly as your mind allows in hopes of finding out what is to transpire.



Grade: A+

Synopsis:

“The dead don't talk. I don't know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it’s a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Odd’s otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo's sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it's different.A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world's worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Odd’s deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15.

Today is August 14.In less than twenty-four hours, Pico Mundo will awaken to a day of catastrophe. As evil coils under the searing desert sun, Odd travels through the shifting prisms of his world, struggling to avert a looming cataclysm with the aid of his soul mate and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock 'n' Roll. His account of two shattering days when past and present, fate and destiny converge is the stuff of our worst nightmares—and a testament by which to live: sanely if not safely, with courage, humor, and a full heart that even in the darkness mustpersevere.