We will keep Odd Hours, at least for now. Here is review:
This was a pleasure to read, I can't believe I was actually crying reading a Dean Koontz book, but I was. Odd Thomas is a great character and I loved reading how he went about getting through each dangerous situation. He is, I don't know, like a boy everyone would like to be or know. The conversations that Odd has with the sheriff were great, in fact Odd's most potent weapon is his ability to talk himself out of most situations. He doesn't make too many mistakes, just enough to make us relate to him. Odd Thomas is a fine fictional hero for our times.
Also, having read an early Dean Koontz just a few days ago, it is abundantly evident that he has become a much better writer over the years. He wasn't a poor writer to begin with but his ability to create a story of pathos that is taut and never boring is in the stratosphere compared to before.


Here are a couple of quotes I really liked,

"I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books."

"In Vegas, he was two years older than he claimed to be in his California incarnation, but perhaps a Las Vegas lifestyle aged a person prematurely."

"With narrow faces, bared fangs, and radiant-eyed intensity, these current six coyotes confronting Annamaria and me did not have what it took to be featured in a Purina Puppy Chow commercial. They looked like fascist jihadists in fur."

"Not immediately able to proceed, I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace."

Also, I have read other people's opinions of this book and can totally see what they mean about how it is inconclusive and a set up for another book but that was not really a concern for me. What I didn't understand is why those triggers were not dropped at sea where they would not be found again. And maybe that is a set up for another book? I hope not as I liked this book but I don't want to read another international terrorist scenario even though those people are one of the worst problem on earth today.

Since I don't intend to read this again I am going to either put it in a VBB or wild release it.

I am listing this book in bookstogive's mystery/thriller VBB.

I am putting this book into the Titles That Start With O bookring.

I have chosen this from the O bookring.

This book has been put into the Potpourri Bookbox organized by waternixie. It is travelling to Aramena of Moore, Oklahoma.

Taking from the book box.