fauxhobo

To start out, I will say I loved the first book in this series, Odd Thomas, and I felt that the second book, Forever Odd, was a huge let down. As a result, I put off reading the rest of the series for a long time, because I didn't want to be further dissapointed. Well, I was. I love Odd Thomas, he's just funny and sarcastic and a very likable character in my opinion. The story however, was not up to par. Here are my main complaints about Brother Odd: 1.) Dean Koontz needs to stop force feeding me useless descriptions and directions! "I turned northwest, then east, then I turned around and went west again" or "The tunnel was seven feet high by five feet wide. Four cables ran along the top left hand side. The first housed the electical wires, the second housed...blah blah blah. I found that trying to figure out which way Odd was actually walking and trying to envision the tunnel perfectly was very frustrating and distracting. 2.) I didn't understand the bone creatures at all. He kept describing them over and over and I just couldn't form a picture in my mind that made any kind of sense. It was over complicated and hard to believe. 3.) The story wasn't so much about Odd, as it was about everyone else in the book. We really didn't learn anything new about Odd or what was going on with him. He was still in the exact same place as he was at the end of book two, and he didn't really grow much at all. Instead, the secondary characters were built up too much, some to the point where I didn't even care about some of the details I was being given. This book could have, and should have been great. Instead, it felt cheap and quickly slapped together. I really hope the last book in the series, Odd Hours, turns out to be fantastic, because Koontz can't give us Odd Thomas, a very good book, then just trash the rest of the series, of Odd's life.

2023-06-09 13:17