Odd Hours

Odd Hours

2008 • 443 pages

Ratings31

Average rating3.6

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Odd Thomas lives always between two worlds.

He can see the lingering dead and knows that even in the chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites our understanding - but often thwarts it.

Intuition has brought Odd Thomas to the quaint town of Magic Beach on the California coast. As he waits to learn why he has been drawn here, he finds work as cook and assistant to a once-famous film actor who, at eighty, has become an eccentric with as long a list of fears as he has stories about Hollywood's golden days.

Odd is having dreams of a red tide, vague but worrisome. By day he senses a free-floating fear in the air of the town, as if unleashed by the crashing waves. But nothing prepares him for the hard truth of what he will discover as he comes face to face with a form of evil that will test him as never before...

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7 primary books11 released books

#4 in Odd Thomas

Odd Thomas is a 11-book series with 7 primary works first released in 2003 with contributions by Dean Koontz.


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A Fine Read

While it doesn't particularly capitalize on the grand scale and strange abilities of such a wonderful character as Odd Thomas that came in previous entries in the series, it is still a cleverly written tale that leverages Koontz and his wry tongue.

February 15, 2015
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June 21, 2016
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SeanSupporter

I continue to love Odd Thomas and the books about him. Also, I love Koontz's Catholicism.

December 31, 2020