Brother Odd - Dean Koontz

Odd Thomas is clearly a favourite of Dean Koontz. Having started with the novel by the same name, he quickly followed it up with "Forever Odd" and brought out a third novel at the start of this year: "Brother Odd." Odd is a strange little character with a dry wit, a passionate sense of right and wrong and a desire for peace, tranquility and a quiet life doing nothing more than cooking pancakes for the customers at his friend's restaurant in his home town of Pico Mundo. Unfortunately for Odd, he can also see the dead and has the power of Psychic Magnetism, which tends to draw him towards ... more

Apologys people but here comes another book review. Dean Koontz is a rather prolific writer it seems that everytime I go to the supermarket unaccompanied while on my tours of the toy and book aisles one of his latests works tries to throw itself in to my basket along with the lego sets and Spongbob DVD's. On my latest trip it was this the third of the books featuring Odd Thomas which made its way in to the basket. Odd Thomas for anyone unfamiliar with him is a young fry cook from Pico Mundo, a desert town which has no real distinguishing features other than the massacre at a shopping mall some ... more

The third novel in Koontz's ever popular ODD THOMAS series sees Odd retiring to a remote monastry in search of peace and seclusion following the events of the previous two novels. Odd, you will remember, is visited by the lingering spirits of the dead who seek retribution and justice for their deaths and though they cannot speak for reasons we can only speculate, still they seem to manage to make their desires known. Odd's most recent adventures have come at great personal cost and have put the lives of those closet to him at jeopardy so, by removing himself from his sleepy home in Pico Mundo ... more

I have recently just finished reading Dean Koontz's 'Brother Odd'. Because it is a book set in a monastery I assumed it was not going to interest me because I have never been to a monastery or met a monk. However in his usual manner Dean Koontz dragged me in and showed me something new and amazing whilst enriching my knowledge of something new. [ There will be no spoilers in this review ] - Characters - The characters in the book are excellent and provide a much needed humour to balance the terror in the book. Dean Koontz even manages to weave in a tiny bit of political humour with 'As ... more