Odd Thomas
by Dean Koontz
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Author: Dean KoontzEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-08-29
ISBN: 0553384287
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: A haunting and uplifting book from one of the best
Summary: 5 Stars
What do you do when you've enjoyed reading an author's books in the past but you aren't 100% sure about the genre he writes in. In the case of Dean Koontz and Odd Thomas, you put off reading the book until several years after its been released. That's what I've done, and unfortunately I missed out on an opportunity to read an amazing book filled with wonderful characters. Fortunately, there are several sequels out so I won't have to wait long to read the next installment.
Odd Thomas, a 20-year old fry cook, sees dead people. They don't talk to him, but the do communicate with him. Thomas strives for simplicity in everything in his life to avoid going insane because of his "gift". Odd is the narrator of the story and begins by saying that he is about to write about something incredibly tragic and dark. Yet Thomas is a fun a delightful narrator and the book breezes along full of humor and accurate observations of the human condtion. Odd Thomas is able to see bodachs, harmless spirits whose presence usually indicate a coming tragedy. Through dreams, spirits and an encounter with Bob Robertson, a hideous looking man that lives on the outskirts of town, Odd Thomas believes something horrific is going to happen the next day in his town.
The book follows Thomas for just two days as the responsibility of preventing a massacre weighs him down. No need to go into the plot anymore. If you've read Koontz before, you know he'll delivers. The book is full of unique and quirky characters, including Stormy Lewellen, Thomas's girlfriend. As you read, you'll learn more about the town of Pico Mundo and more about Thomas's troubled past.
I'm glad I finally read this book. It's conclusion is haunting yet uplifting and I can't wait to read more. For fan's of Koontz's more mainstream works such as The Husband or The Good Guy, I heartily recommend this book. Sure, it has shades of horror and the supernatural, but in its heart it is really a story about good and evil.
Summary of Odd Thomas
?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 must persevere.
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