Brother Odd (Odd Thomas Novels)
by Dean Koontz
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Author: Dean KoontzEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 2007-10-30
ISBN: 0553589105
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: WOW!! WAY better than the last one....
Summary: 5 Stars
It took me a while to pick this one up. I was SO disappointed in the Odd Hours book,, what a slow, dragged on, horrible waste of paper that one was.. What was DEAN thinking when he wrote that schlock?? When Brother Odd came out, I was too scared to buy it, I checked it out at the library and it sat on my nightstand for 2-3 weeks.. each night I would reach for it, and I would feel regurgitated bile slowly creeping up in my throat. I had been SO badly burned, I was so afraid that I would be turned off by Dean Koontz forever if this one turned out as badly. One night, a week before it was due, I decided, for better or worse, I would at least read a few chapters. If it was a vile as the last one, I could take it back and no harm done, no money spent, and I could check out the latest Stephenie Meyers to help get the aweful taste out of my mouth.. Sort of like drinking drano to get the taste of rotten milk out of your mouth.
Anyway, I was ever so carefully, slowly and timidly delving into the first chapter and lord of lords, I fell back into the glory that IS Dean Koontz!.. I was once again on a runaway train, up and down, holding my breath, wiggling my toes and getting a numb butt and sore elbow from holding my position so long, being so absorbed, I forget to move.
The way he describes the weather, the abbey/monastary ,the belltower.. the children. Holy Cow.. Stormy is back... sort of.. The book was far too short, ended far too soon, and Dean is redeemed.
I am SO happy that Brother Odd turned out so much better. I bought a copy, for when I want to revisit.. BUT, The next book on Oddie, I am checking out..I don't know if Dean was forced by a deadline to poop out on Odd Hours, but I could tell his creative juices were flowing once again with Brother Odd.. I am concerned that the next one could go either way.. Lord I hope Dean is back on the train...
How about another story on Einstein? Maybe some of his pups??
Summary of Brother Odd (Odd Thomas Novels)
Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chillthe young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn,
his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of
the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature
Through two New York Times bestselling novels Odd Thomas has established himself as one of the most beloved and unique fictional heroes of our time. Now, wielding all the power and magic of a master storyteller at the pinnacle of his craft, Dean Koontz follows Odd into a singular new world where he hopes to make a fresh beginning—but where he will meet an adversary as old and inexorable as time itself.
St. Bartholomew’s Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of California’s high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again, and among the eccentric monks, their other guests, and the nuns and young students of the attached convent school, he has begun to find his way. The silent spirits of the dead who visited him in his earlier life are mercifully absent, save for the bell-ringing Brother Constantine and Odd’s steady companion, the King of Rock 'n' Roll.
But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path in the form of the sinister bodachs he has met previously, the black shades who herald death and disaster, and who come late one December night to hover above the abbey’s most precious charges. For Odd is about to face an enemy who eclipses any he has yet encountered, as he embarks on a journey of mystery, wonder, and sheer suspense that surpasses all that has come before.
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