Odd Apocalypse (Odd Thomas, #5)

CONS:
Within the first 20 pages, Koontz lashes out against liberals 4 times.

Inconsistency: In Odd Interlude, Odd encounters aliens, but in this book, he doesn't believe in UFOs.

No bodachs =(

NEUTRAL:
Curse words: I don't mind whether or not there are curse words in a novel, but, seeing what Odd goes through, it's impressive that he never utters a st or somesuch, and always describes others' curse words - except for the occasional st or a** - in politically correct terms.

Odd is supposed to lead a very sparse life with no possesions, but he apparently read Stieg Larsson, W.B. Yeats and lots of other stuff - when? Does he have time to go to the library while on the run? Or what? Same goes for all the movies he mentions.

The overuse of pop cultural references. Not a problem as such, but the novel will be dated in a few years. Remember a few years back, when Koontz referenced SecondLife in one of his books? Does anyone know or use it now?

Not really an Odd Thomas story, but entertaining enough.

PROS:
At least the humour in this one isn't over the top. Neither is the sweetness. And not too much dogness.

Actually an engaging story and well-written - two things we've lacked from Koontz in ages.

He didn't go back to when Stormy was still alive, which is good, as that would have diminished the impact the first novel had.

Bad Odd - want to see more of him =)

OVERALL:
I found this the most engaging Odd novel since the first, though it was a bit over the top and really didn't bring the story arc further.

Liked this story of Odd much more than the previous one I read. I found it interesting that the very first book of Koontz's that I read years ago was “Lightning' which involved time travel and that this story of Odd also involved time travel.

It lacked the details I was looking for and gave too many to things I could have skipped over. My full review is on my blog at http://knowitnotsomuch.blogspot.com/2013/01/odd-apocalypse.html