Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas

Pros: Great reading.

Cons: None

Review: I love Dean Koontz and have read almost all of his books. Some of them tend to be a little out there, which makes them sometimes hard to enjoy.
I loved this book. Odd was a great and fleshed out character. I didn't see the ending coming, and...

Pros: Odd is a great character developed throughout a good story

Cons: Made me stay up past my bedtime

The Bottom Line: The bottom line has a crush on Odd Thomas.

Review: Stephen King and Dean Koontz share a number of traits. They both write in my beloved supernatural-horror-thriller genre, they both have the ability to create truly wonderful characters, they re both prolific and they both have a strong tendency...

Pros: Everything, except it...

Cons: strays from the plot a little too much

The Bottom Line: This story has something for everyone! A great read that will keep you wanting more.

Review: Odd Thomas, an unordinary fry cook at the local diner, tells his story in a first person narration full of wit and whimsy. Scattering us here and there with his thoughts, while dealing with dead people and impending evil, he takes us on a...

Pros: Dark humor, deep characters, a twisted mystery to unravel, and a good plot.

Cons: Pretty dark, sometimes disturbing.

The Bottom Line: Highly recommended, especially if you like his recent writing.

Review: I love Koontz's writing. I enjoy his more pedestrian early writings, and I love his more recent novels such as "Ticktock" and "Dark Rivers of the Heart", which tend to have more depth, more heart, and more composite characters than some of his...

Pros: It's Koontz!

Cons: Could have been longer.

The Bottom Line: Koontz fans rejoice! It's his second book this year!

Review: **Preface and background: I am a huge Dean Koontz fan. By huge I do not mean that I weigh in excess of 400 pounds, though after the holidays I may be closing on it. By huge, I mean that Koontz has had an incredible effect on my life through his many...

Pros: Great narration, fast paced, memorable characters

Cons: Touches (lightly) on some ugly subjects, the last two pages

The Bottom Line: It's a quick, fun read with great characters, definitely worth reading

Review: By far, my favorite Dean Koontz books are Fear Nothing and Seize the Night, stories about a very likeable, charismatic, unlikely hero, Christopher Snow. In my latest foray into the worlds created by Koontz, I have found another hero...

Pros: Good story line. Read in order starting with Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, and Brother Odd.

Cons: Way too descriptive, too much fluff.

Review: Forever Odd, second in a series, is long winded to the excess. Way too descriptive. Good story, easy read, just way too much filler. Bordering on fluff, Koontz has been a favorite of mine for awhile now. Some titles are winners and some are losers...

Pros: interesting

Cons: has a slow start

The Bottom Line: the book is good because it has a good story line and the characters are believable.

Review: Odd Thomas is about a guy who is a cook and just a regular guy except for on thing, he can see the dead.

Whenever someone dies and doesn't move on for some reason he can see them. What Odd does is he trys to help them move on. He often...

Pros: Dean Koontz, interesting story, fantastic characters

Cons: Story idea has been done, which may turn some people away

The Bottom Line: What is wrong with our world when any number dead can be considered a miracle?

Review: My mother has a tendency to laugh aloud when reading books, and when you say, "What?" she usually ends up reading selections from books to you. She did this to me one day recently, and the things she would read to me were quite funny, but...

Pros: Excellent plot, fine character development and plot twists.

Cons: Sometimes I found myself skimming through some parts to get to the good stuff.

The Bottom Line: Definitely read this book, if for no other reason then to see what all the hype is about.

Review: Upon reading the back cover for a summary of the book, I was looking forward to Dean's promise of suspense and slight horror. What I did not expect was a main character full of depth; a romantic man with an interesting talent and a soul mate in tow...