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Well, I do really like Koontz and his books and I did really like the first books about Odd and to follow his life. Its just that I don´t really like the writing in this one, and the story is just weird and a complete train wreck. To many page fillers and stuff that sidetrack the story and don´t makes any sense in the end.

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carrie562's review

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced

3.0

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5.0

I just... I love Odd Thomas. His reaction to having to commit any sort of violence is not what mine is. Perhaps it's all the books I've read prior, but I don't mind violence when it's called for. Odd, in contrast, understands that sometimes violence is necessary in order to prevent greater violence in the future, but he hates it when he is the one who ends up having to commit that violence. It tears him up inside, even if he knows there was no other way.

His soul is so good, and he's always trying to do the right thing and... gah! I just love him. Because he's not, like, self-righteous or anything. He doesn't think himself better than anybody else because of the way he views the world. It's simply that doing what is right, is the right thing to do, and when his sixth sense calls him in a direction so he can do those things, he's going to do them. Even if he wishes that burden would fall to someone else.

I love him. I can't wait to get into the next book. This one definitely ended on a bigger cliffhanger than others have before. This particular story is ended, that much we get. But more so than the others, at the end of this one, we know something big is still coming. He has no idea what that is, but he knows he's heading towards it more firmly now than he has in any previous book.

I've been renting these books from the library, but I think I'm just going to have to buy them all. I need them on my bookshelf.