Odd Hours

Odd Hours is the fourth book featuring the Dean Koontz character "Odd Thomas" and to be honest, I got the impression it was a book too far...

At least for the moment.

For those who haven't read the previous three books, Odd Thomas is a young man who has the ability to see the lingering spirits of the dead and is "telephathically" drawn to trouble or people in need.

Don't get me wrong - Odd Thomas is a great (colourful) character and Koontz has continued his ability to come up with witty one-liners and tongue in cheek dialogue, but I just got the feeling that something was missing in this book.

In a nutshell, Thomas is drawn to the town of Magic Beach off the California coast where he finds work as an assistant to a once-famous film star.

Odd has some unusual dreams that has left him trying to work out what he is seeing and how it ties into some rather shady characters he keeps running into.

Anyway the reader gets pulled along for an entertaining but not earth shattering story as Thomas slowly starts to unravel a very dodgy plot. If I had not known the Thomas character or that it was written by Koontz I suspect I would have been less disappointed.

Title: Odd Hours
Author: Dean Koontz
ISBN: 978-0-00-726754-5

We rated it a 3.5 out of 5 and while it was entertaining it wasn't necessarily the kick ass line we expected from Koontz.