Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas

Pros: Odd is a great character developed throughout a good story

Cons: Made me stay up past my bedtime

The Bottom Line: The bottom line has a crush on Odd Thomas.

Review: Stephen King and Dean Koontz share a number of traits. They both write in my beloved supernatural-horror-thriller genre, they both have the ability to create truly wonderful characters, they’re both prolific and they both have a strong tendency ...

Pros: Interesting plot. Suspenseful at times.

Cons: Sad and depressing in a few places.

The Bottom Line: Odd Thomas is another good book by Dean Koontz, but it is more emotional and depressing than his other books.

Review: I started to read Dean Koontz books several years ago after a friend suggested I try them. Now I get his new books as soon as they come out. I have also been getting his books that were already out when I started to read his books. I now have almost ...

Pros: Dean Koontz, interesting story, fantastic characters

Cons: Story idea has been done, which may turn some people away

The Bottom Line: What is wrong with our world when any number dead can be considered a miracle?

Review: My mother has a tendency to laugh aloud when reading books, and when you say, "What?" she usually ends up reading selections from books to you. She did this to me one day recently, and the things she would read to me were quite funny, but ...

Pros: Everything, except it...

Cons: strays from the plot a little too much

The Bottom Line: This story has something for everyone! A great read that will keep you wanting more.

Review: Odd Thomas, an unordinary fry cook at the local diner, tells his story in a first person narration full of wit and whimsy. Scattering us here and there with his thoughts, while dealing with dead people and impending evil, he takes us on a ride ...

Pros: A great story with character depth that invokes an unbelievable range of emotions.

Cons: NONE

The Bottom Line: If you read just one book this year, read this book!

Review: Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz Published December 9, 2003 by Bantam 416 page hardcover list price $26.95 (Walmart price 16.97) ISBN: 0553802496 Dean Koontz is one of my all time favorite authors, just behind Stephen King and Edgar Allen Poe, so ...

Pros: It's Koontz!

Cons: Could have been longer.

The Bottom Line: Koontz fans rejoice! It's his second book this year!

Review: **Preface and background: I am a huge Dean Koontz fan. By huge I do not mean that I weigh in excess of 400 pounds, though after the holidays I may be closing on it. By huge, I mean that Koontz has had an incredible effect on my life through his many ...

Pros: Dead Koontz has created a book that is flawless in every way

Cons: You wanna be depressed? Some sub-plots had holes

The Bottom Line: If you're a fan of John Saul then you would probably like this Koontz novel.

Review: I pretty much filtered my Dean Koontz reading because I had a hard time reading The Face Of Fear as well as the Fear Nothing and Seize The Night series and I was disappointed in the author. Shattered was the most recent one ...

Pros: Fast paced light-supernatural thriller

Cons: nada

The Bottom Line: Koontz has written a passel of good books but If someone were to ask for a recommendation to start with, this would probably be it.

Review: I just finished Odd Thomas and I got to tell you the book was well named. In fact not just the protagonist 'Odd Thomas' (his name) was odd, the whole story was odd, in a Stephen King sort of way. That's not to detract from Mr.Koontz who is a fine writer ...

Pros: Dark humor, deep characters, a twisted mystery to unravel, and a good plot.

Cons: Pretty dark, sometimes disturbing.

The Bottom Line: Highly recommended, especially if you like his recent writing.

Review: I love Koontz's writing. I enjoy his more pedestrian early writings, and I love his more recent novels such as "Ticktock" and "Dark Rivers of the Heart", which tend to have more depth, more heart, and more composite characters than some of his earlier ...

Pros: Oddly exciting.Koontz never stops surprising!

Cons: Odd Thomas is one of the best heroes we can have nowadays.

The Bottom Line: All of books by Koontz ,teach us ,excite us ,impress us with it's life,love,fight,humor and victory. If you really want to have a masterpiece of suspense ,this is it .

Review: Dean Koontz has many #1 bestsellers and all of his books are worth of hundreds of minutes we spend .But among the best there are always something better and the story of young and ambitious boy gifted the ability of communicating with those who are ...