We meet again the intriguing character of 21 year old fry cook Odd Thomas. Unlike the first book, which takes place over many days or weeks, this one wraps up in a very dramatic 24 hours.

Odd is awaken from sleep by a dead radiologist whose son Danny happens to be one of Odd's best friends.

While I love the character Odd, and the fact that tears poured down my face every time I read about his deceased soul mate Stormy, I kinda felt cheated by this book. I learned very little more about Odd's past and his weird relationship with his mom or the mysterious Aunt that was mentioned in the first book. it was all immediate action.

I did like the course that Odd had chosen to pursue at the very end of the book. I can only hope that will lead to some of the further revelations that I was hoping for in this book. Yes, I do intend to keep reading this series and have "Brother Odd" somewhere in my pile of 'to be read' books.

Just finished the second book in Koontz's Odd Thomas series and I have to say it was middle of the road for me. I like the first book better. However I still thought this novel was good.

After losing the love of his life, Odd is sad and not working. He wakes ones evening to see the ghost of someone he knows and follows it to discover one of his close friends has been kidnapped.

This book is pretty good and probably would seem even better if it wasn't following Odd Thomas, which was an excellent book. Still it hasn't put me off the series and I will read Brother Odd and Odd Hours in the near future.

Not as enthralling as the first or third book, but there is no such thing as too much of Odd Thomas.

To start with do not read this book until you have read Odd Thomas (Which I highly recommend!). If you have not read Odd Thomas stop reading this review and go buy it now. If you have read Odd then continue on.

Forever Odd Takes the reader back to Pico Mundo California, and its most celebrated and strange citizen, Odd Thomas. Odd has the gift of being able to see, feel, and speak to the dead (but for some reason they can't speak back?).

This time out Odd meets the ghost of Dr. Wilbur Jessup who has been murdered and has Odd come to his home, where Odd discovers the doctor's dead body! Jessup is the father of Odd's best friend Danny who is afflicted with a disease that makes his bones brittle. Danny is missing from the home! Odd uses his Psychic Magnetism to try and tract Danny down. I don't want ruin any of the surprises, but Odd soon finds himself the quarry of a beautiful but evil advisary who wants to use Odd for her own evil purposes!

This is a quirky story---The Ghost of a melancholy Elvis is still hanging around Odd---that combines a number of genres suspense, terror, adventure, mystery. and even some humor. The story moves along at a rapid pace and is a quick read compared to some of Koontz's other stories. Overall a good sequel to the original book, but it does not have the emotional impact, though it is still very entertaining!

If you like stories that combine genres check out the underground hit: Tourist in the Yucatan a thriller/adventure/Mystery wrapped in the mystery of the Maya!