Paperback, 448 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2007 by Harper.

ISBN:
978-0-00-722658-0
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The third Odd Thomas novel from Dean Koontz, following 'Odd Thomas' and 'Forever Odd'. Odd Thomas is looking for peace. But in the silence and snow of the mountains, danger and desperation haunt him still ! Odd, a charismatic young man with a sense for the otherworldly and the downright strange, is in self-imposed exile. The tragic events that took the love of his life have led Odd from his sun-bleached desert home of Pico Mundo to a monastery in the High Sierra. It's December and the remote abbey is besieged by icy winds and snow. As ever where Odd Thomas goes strangeness goes too. A white dog named Boo befriends him -- as does the ghost of Elvis. And a world-famous physicist is conducting experiments in the catacombs of the abbey. Could this be why Odd can once again see bodachs, shadowy harbingers of violence? They prowl the halls, …

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I am revisiting a few of my old reads while I can't decide on something new to read or I am stalled with a book that I want to read and finish. And this brought me to Brother Odd. Though not my favourite Odd Thomas book it is still a pretty good addition to the series. I know Koontz is tends to preach his own sets of beliefs or morals I am willing to let it go usually as his books are sometimes entertaining and also it is difficult to find a book where an author doesn't try to expound on their thoughts and beliefs.

This book takes place in a monastery and is sort of a locked room mystery with the whole mountain as a room what with all of the participants are trapped in the monastery due to a blizzard. If I look at it that way, …

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