Brother Odd

by Dean Koontz

Hardcover, 364 pages

English language

Published Aug. 7, 2006 by Bantam Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-553-80480-5
OCLC Number:: 71810110

The third Odd Thomas novel from Dean Koontz, following 'Odd Thomas' and 'Forever Odd'. Odd Thomas is looking for peace. But in the silence and snow of the mountains, danger and desperation haunt him still ! Odd, a charismatic young man with a sense for the otherworldly and the downright strange, is in self-imposed exile. The tragic events that took the love of his life have led Odd from his sun-bleached desert home of Pico Mundo to a monastery in the High Sierra. It's December and the remote abbey is besieged by icy winds and snow. As ever where Odd Thomas goes strangeness goes too. A white dog named Boo befriends him -- as does the ghost of Elvis. And a world-famous physicist is conducting experiments in the catacombs of the abbey. Could this be why Odd can once again see bodachs, shadowy harbingers of violence? They prowl the halls, …

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Book_Em_Danno reviewed Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

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Rubbish. Koontz is not funny, but he really tries to make his characters funny. They're about as funny as a character on Full House. It is really frustrating to try to get through an otherwise mediocre story with the main character cracking jokes with a third grader's sense of humor. He has a cringe worthy, glib way of writing about things he clearly doesn't understand.

I can suspend my disbelief to read about supernatural subject matter. However, this story takes place in a monastery where every monk character has a ridiculous past. I cannot suspend my disbelief for a cast of characters that include a billionaire, a retired mob enforcer, and something else that would be a spoiler to mention. I made it three books in, and now I'm throwing in the towel. Boo-urns.