Brother Odd

from bezoar44

The protagonist is intriguing and likable, but, oh my, his narrative voice is annoying. The plot is a strange combination of gory horror, loopy science fiction, non-dogmatic but conservative moralizing, and dialogue that is snappy but delays the solution of the mystery because the characters inex...

from Tanya-dogearedcopy

DK seems to take greater care with the turn of phrase and the descriptive words or phrases that set the moods, but sometimes at the risk of being digressive. Nonetheless, this is a much more thoughtful and original story, if a little slower paced than previous Odd Thomas stories. DK converted to ...

from AQsReviews

Koontz dialed-back the totally crazy and pared down the setting quite a bit. In a way, it is almost the opposite of the pandemonium in the second novel, Forever Odd. I am not going to lie – I utterly enjoyed this novel. This novel is not really anything other than a superficial, kind-of entertai...

from AliceAnna

I really like the character of Odd Thomas a lot. Polite and self-deprecating is refreshing. I enjoyed this book mostly except I found the menace facing the monastery to be hard to conceive. I liked the Russian character and Brother "Knuckles" as well and the ending with Boo and Elvis was the icin...

from hairi

Though it is a typical work of Koontz, the language dragged us too much sometimes we got lost, but I still love the sarcasm and the hillarious remarks made my Odd. The way he handled the situation was somewhat exciting I couldn't put the book down.