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Odd Hours is a brilliantly observed chronicle of good and evil in our time, of illusion and everlasting truth. Pick up a Dean Koontz thriller and you can't put it down: try one

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Rating: - Boring
I really liked Odd Thomas, and eventhough book three may have been slightly entertaining, I'm more or less disappointed with the series, including this fourth installment. Put Odd out of his misery now, please.

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Rating: - Be Odd for a day!
I loved this book, which has reached the heights of "Odd Thomas" in a way that that the second and third books in the series, although enjoyable, did not quite manage. Again we have a conflict between the humble and wryly self-deprecating goodness of Odd's character and enemies which personify arrogant evil. Odd's character has become more mature and willing to accept the need for desperate measures; his new enemies have reached a new level of depravity that, while it beggars belief in its detail, may be taken to represent the greatest evils that exist on this planet in their abuse of trust and power and their utter lack of conscience.

I felt entirely immersed in the storyline, despite reading this over more than a week. The atmosphere ... Read More:

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Rating: - Odd The Fourth
Unusually for Dean Koontz he has created a series of books with the same character. "Odd Hours" is the fourth in the "Odd Thomas" series. It possibly the weakest but still a great read nevertheless. "Odd Thomas", the first in the series, is one of Koontz's greatest works and all the followups have been strong but haven't quite matched it.

This time Odd is in a coastal town and after a encounter with a heavily pregnant girl Annamaria he gets thrown into a deadly pursuit of nuclear weapons. The story takes place over one evening.

There's no Elvis in this book. However, Frank Sinatra is onboard to add an element of humour. There are no evil Bodachs anymore and in a way their presence is missed. The character of Annamaria ... Read More:

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Rating: - Disappointing
I am a long time fan of Dean Koontz and particularly enjoyed a lot of his earlier books. In more recent years, although I have tended to get his books as soon as they are issued, I have been very disappointed. This is no exception. I believe great things could be done with the character of Odd (or should that be with the Odd Character?) but in this book he just rambles and ambles through a story which did not make a lot of sense throughout. It may be that Mr Koontz was using the book as his "rant" at terrorism or as the latest in his love for dogs slant, but I feel he has lost his way.
I suppose I will continue to read him in the hope that he finds his way back to writing books like Lightning, Sole Survivor, Intensity and others.

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Rating: - An odd disapointment
I think I'm with the other reviewers on this one. This certainly wasn't Dean Koontz's finest Odd Thomas book, certainly not as good as the previous book. I kind of felt he'd returned a little bit to some of his darker days, where a swirling mist seemed de riguer in regards to adding some form of suspense.

I think Koontz has mellowed over time, he doesn't create the spin tingling suspense novels he used to. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but when he dips back into his previous form, it just doesn't seem as frightening.

The story followed Odd Thomas again, which is great, it's nice to see that he writes books in a series, which so many authors do these days. However, the previous stories all written well, to say, they ... Read More: