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A review by rlisaacs
Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz
4.0
I still love Odd Thomas.
Don't let the downgrade to 4 stars fool you. I still do love him. He makes me laugh with some of his thoughts. He makes my heart hurt for some of his pain and the pain he feels for others that he doesn't even know. He is the same kind, sweet soul that he always is.
There was just... too many descriptions in this book. You basically spend the whole of the book in Odd's head. Meaning he's explaining, as he always does, what he's doing, what's happening around him, where he's going, etc. That's always been a fact of the books. But I think I liked it better in the earlier books when there were more good people surrounding him. Yes, the bad ones were there too that he needed to help do something about, but in the first three books, Odd still had friends and family around him that helped create gaps in the otherwise never-ending stream of Odd's explanations of what's taking place. In this book, that is severely lacking, and the majority of the book is us remaining in Odd's head. We're with him on his journey and he's filling us in on what's going on, and I still love that. But... we needed more gaps than we were given, and that's because Odd is so far separated right now from the people he trusts most.
In fact, if I think on it, I think book 4 might've also been the start of this problem as well, and maybe I just blinded myself to it. The novella between book 4 and this book does a better job with the gaps, so maybe that's why I'm not really noticing it until now.
In any case, that's my only real complaint here, and the only reason we're at 4 stars instead of 5. There were still some gaps where we were part of a conversation that Odd was having, but they were too few and in between to give us enough of a break from the otherwise endless stream of Odd's own inner thoughts. (He has wonderful inner thoughts, I don't deny that, but we still needed something to break it up a bit.)
Still love this series. Will swiftly be moving on to the next one.
Don't let the downgrade to 4 stars fool you. I still do love him. He makes me laugh with some of his thoughts. He makes my heart hurt for some of his pain and the pain he feels for others that he doesn't even know. He is the same kind, sweet soul that he always is.
There was just... too many descriptions in this book. You basically spend the whole of the book in Odd's head. Meaning he's explaining, as he always does, what he's doing, what's happening around him, where he's going, etc. That's always been a fact of the books. But I think I liked it better in the earlier books when there were more good people surrounding him. Yes, the bad ones were there too that he needed to help do something about, but in the first three books, Odd still had friends and family around him that helped create gaps in the otherwise never-ending stream of Odd's explanations of what's taking place. In this book, that is severely lacking, and the majority of the book is us remaining in Odd's head. We're with him on his journey and he's filling us in on what's going on, and I still love that. But... we needed more gaps than we were given, and that's because Odd is so far separated right now from the people he trusts most.
In fact, if I think on it, I think book 4 might've also been the start of this problem as well, and maybe I just blinded myself to it. The novella between book 4 and this book does a better job with the gaps, so maybe that's why I'm not really noticing it until now.
In any case, that's my only real complaint here, and the only reason we're at 4 stars instead of 5. There were still some gaps where we were part of a conversation that Odd was having, but they were too few and in between to give us enough of a break from the otherwise endless stream of Odd's own inner thoughts. (He has wonderful inner thoughts, I don't deny that, but we still needed something to break it up a bit.)
Still love this series. Will swiftly be moving on to the next one.