Odd Apocalypse

This was...not good. Maybe Koontz just is no good at writing ongoing series? I don't know, I know there's a trilogy or two out there, maybe those are better. I almost feel bad, as his stand alone stuff is fun and engaging and these Odd books are at best okay and at worst, well, we have Odd Apocalypse.returnI've skipped around in the series, so at first I thought the fact that Odd and Annamaria were in a completely unfamiliar setting and kept interacting with characters they knew and it seemed as if I the reader should know was because I had missed some back story from the previous book. returnTurns out...nope...just some in media res shit that doesn't work. Just some in media res shit that in practice didn't work. It kind of fed into what I thought might be an intentionally weird, confusing, almost dream like, feel to the setting. Again, turns out, nope, just bad writing/narration that only sort of gets explained by the resolution to the story. returnOdd's abilities also seem mostly pointless here, and Annamaria just isn't half as mysterious or interesting as Koontz clearly wants her to be. There's a pretty obvious reveal coming, and she's just kind of irritating because of it.returnThis has pretty much turned me off the rest of the series entirely.