Title: Forever Odd
Series: Odd Thomas, book 2
Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Random House Audio
Narrator: David Aaron Baker
Duration: 8 hours, 37 minutes
Copyright: 2005
Genres: paranormal, mystery, psi
Filed in: Audiobook reviews
Review copy provided by Kearney Public Library.
THE GIST: Since the adventures recounted in “Odd Thomas”, Odd hasn’t been sleeping very well. On this particular morning, he awakes at 2:41 am, only to find fellow Pico Mundo resident Doctor Jessup standing in his apartment. Well, not exactly. It’s actually Doctor Jessup's ghost. For you or me, that might be cause for alarm, but for Odd Thomas, it’s just an average day.
Odd Thomas sees dead people. Sometimes the dead want to be seen just for the sake of being seen. Sometimes, they need a little help. With Doctor Jessup, it is the latter. Just minutes ago, he was brutally murdered. It’s going to be a very long day for Odd Thomas.
Odd goes to the doctor’s house and confirms that the man is indeed dead. He also finds that Doctor Jessup’s son Danny, who happens to be a good friend of Odd’s, is missing. Within minutes, Odd receives a mysterious phone call from a sultry voiced woman. At first she seems to be spouting nonsense, but a second call received later, reveals that she is actually egging him on. It is she, along with a couple of thugs, who killed the doctor and kidnapped the boy. She seems to know a lot about Odd’s unusual abilities and she’s using the boy to lead him right into a trap.
MY THOUGHTS: “Forever Odd” is the second audio book in the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz. Odd Thomas is a great character. He’s interesting and witty and that sixth sense of his is really cool. Unlike the first audio book in this series, "Forever Odd" was not a great story, however. The plot seems pretty thin and the characters sometimes do things that just don’t make any sense. The climax of the story was suspenseful, but I think Koontz dragged it out a little bit too long. I was ready for it to be over before it actually ended.
NARRATOR: David Aaron Baker is a good audio book narrator and I give him a lot of credit for keeping me in this one. I really like Baker's conversational style and without that, "Forever Odd" might have gotten boring.
FINAL WORD: “Odd Thomas” was a great audio book, but “Forever Odd” just didn’t do it for me.
TRY THESE OTHER AUDIOBOOK REVIEWS:
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz (Audiobook Review)
Forever Odd by Dean Koontz (Audiobook Review)
Brother Odd by Dean Koontz (Audiobook Review)
Odd Hours by Dean Koontz (Audiobook Review)
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Well I knew this one wasn't as good as soon as sultry woman acted out of context for ANY Koontz novel. I think Koontz was going for appeal, and he got lost in his own words and drifted off somewhere; somewhere I didn't really feel like going. lol
ReplyDeleteNow the next book, I believe is Brother Odd? That one jumps right back into the flow of Odd being, well, odd.
I have a new liking for Elvis though! lol
Great review of a not so great book. And that is coming from a BIG Koontz fan.
'Forever' leads to 'Brother', so it's all good. I think Koontz spent too much time with the action in the hotel. But it remains a good book. Just not as good as the first and the third. ;)
ReplyDeleteThe one Koontz book I could never finish was "Intensity". Just too bleak, violent, bloody. A third of the way through I simply closed it and opened another book. I've never tried to read it again. :(
Oh, I puked on Intensity. lol I think he was trying to copy King in his graphics and just got lost on gore.
ReplyDeleteTo his benefit, I do love the characters he dreams up!
And did you know, I have found some of the exact same situations in the Koontz and King books, scenes are being shared by these authors and it takes me, an avid fan of BOTH, to see that they FEED off of each other!!!
Literary Cannibalism? Eeeeew!
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