BROTHER ODD By Dean Koontz

Published : 2006
Pages : 438
Overall Mark : 9/10

Odd Thomas has taken up residence in a monastery which tends to disables children in the hope that the seclusion from the outside world will free him of his cursed visions of ghosts of the dead. Unfortunately the monastery has ghosts of its own, one of which takes the form of a giant skeletal creature! It’s now left down to Odd to rally the troops and defend the monastery against the creature, whatever it’s origins may be…

This was far better than Forever Odd. Where that novel sort of lingered on the same situation, which didn’t seem to go anywhere, this novel was far more action packed and left me with a feeling of far more satisfaction. It’s good to see Koontz back on form, though I fear he may start to meander a bit with his apparent obsession with dogs being a possible plotline for Odd Hours, what with Boo the ghost dog becoming something of a lingering presence.