Brother Odd (Odd Thomas Novels)
by Dean Koontz
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Book Reviews of Brother Odd (Odd Thomas Novels)
Book Review: Half back on the track after Forever Odd. NOT BAD.....3.5 stars.
Summary: 3 Stars
Well... BROTHER ODD is not exactly what I was expecting from Koontz as a sequel to the awkward FOREVER ODD.
That's the problem with serie novels... often the first book is so great you feel like you could read a dozen similar plots, then the publisher pushes the author (Koontz of course!) to give a sequel quickly for marketing purposes...the sequel is a big deception...but is still a good success...so a third volume must be published and fans are confident that it won't be a disaster this time.
BROTHER ODD is not a disaster. It is enjoyable and Odd Thomas remains authentic. It is a great improvement after the forced and weird FOREVER ODD... but nothing compared to the flowing storyline and simple SO ENJOYABLE plot of the first tome, ODD THOMAS. I am looking to read the 4th book of the series, ODD HOURS (yes, like many readers, I feel the need to follow ODD till the end), but I know it won't get much better.
I think the book could easily have been a short story without any important details missing. Koontz sometimes has a very bad tendency to fill pages with boring anecdotes and works too hard to repeat what worked in previous novels.
Book Review: More Odd and Loving It
Summary: 5 Stars
Third in the Odd Thomas series, this is an excellent addition. It's not
required that you read the first two but doing so would provide some
really good background. I consider this series, and the main character,
to be Dean Koontz's finest.
In Brother Odd (Odd Thomas Novels) we see a more mature Odd Thomas but don't worry. He's
still irreverent. He still sees dead people, including Elvis and now a
tormented monk. We get a deeper look at Odd, at how he thinks and why
he does some of the things he does.
Be sure to check out Odd Thomas and Forever Odd if you haven't yet. By
the way, Dean Koontz has left it wide open for more Odd.
Best of the Book: Odd's on-going relationship with the dead Elvis.
Book Review: Fair supernatural horror story
Summary: 3 Stars
I don't know why, but something about airports makes me pick up books that I would otherwise have skipped, and something about plane trips makes me read them. Maybe the thin air fogs my brain. Whatever the cause, it led me to this story.
The pieces all look familiar: there's an isolated outpost of harmless, helpless naifs, a mad scientist tampering with forces that should never be tamped, and some suitably scary and bloodthirsty monsters of novel make and model. The story really centers on the first-person narrator and his uncanny contact with beings hidden from the eyes of ordinary people, however. And, just for the heck of it, there's also some NSA super-spy thing floating around the corners. You know the usual.
Its formulaic and forgettable. If you were going to kill a few hours anyway, this won't do anything worse to them. I just hope my personal demon of airport reading has gotten this genre out of its system, though.
-- wiredweird
Book Review: 3.5 Stars... lacking on the plot
Summary: 3 Stars
I definitly enjoyed this read. Odd is such a great character and the book sucked me in rght from the beginning. Koontz has a great chartacter here, i just wish the plot of the overall story amongst all his Odd books would have more meaning. I keep wishing for them to mold together into some larger plot but it doesn't appear to be happening. I'd like to understand more of this dark creatures that appear in most every book, where do they come from, what are they? Will there be a bigger picture? I suppose this is my fault for placing my expectaions on the series, but oh well.
With that said this was a fun read. I enjoyed the creepiness of this book more so than in the others. However, i thought the ending was a bit tacky but still worth reading.
If you are into the Odd series that you know as much as i do that you will need to read this book. They are so hard to put down. Overall, enjoyable read, but still left me wishing for a little more.
Book Review: Solid sequel, but not the original
Summary: 3 Stars
I just love Dean Koontz and have read most of his books. The first Odd Thomas had excellent characterizations, intriguing storyline, and suspense. This sequel is good, but not equal to the original. In fact, I would recommend reading the first in the series, if you have not done so, to really appreciate this sequel. This story starts off with an interesting mix of elements: the lovable Odd Thomas ( the ghost-seer), in a monastic community, with a physicist, a Russian stranger, and severely handicapped children with special gifts. A monk goes missing...murder? Odd, of course, is swept into the mystery. The story turns into supernatural science...stretching the imagination and maybe a bit far from the average readers' science background. A good read with a few unexpected plot twists, some predictable, some not. The characters are not as well-developed as the original, though. I would recommend it to all who love Odd Thomas and want to find out where he is now.