Odd Thomas by: Dean Koontz

Odd Thomas is an amazing story written by Dean Koontz. I have never read any of his books until Wendy suggested this book and actually checked it out for me to read. I started reading it and I couldn't stop. This book, to me, is scary, mysterious, and funny. The setting takes place in a small town called Pico Mundo in the middle of the Mojave and near Las Vegas. The main character, Odd Thomas, can see dead people. (I know that sounds so cheesy, but he can see dead people.) Anyways he calls it his sixth sense. The dead can't talk, but they can do everything else like a human. The dead even feel like real people. Odd can also see these black spirits called bodachs that hang around people that are going to die or the people that are going to kill someone.

Besides Odd being able to see all bodachs and dead people he lives a normal life. Odd works at a Grille and is deeply in love with this girl named Stormy. Stormy and Odd were destined for eachother because apprently they have matching birthmarks and this Gypsy mummy told them that they would love eachother forever.

The story begins when Odd sees a man that is surrounded by bodachs. Odd knows that this man is up to no good so he follows him to his home. Odd breaks into this man's home and finds out that this man actually has files about famous killers. While Odd is searching through these files of these insane killers he finds a file about this man that was surrounded by bodachs. His name is Bob Robertson. In Bob's file all it says is August 15th. The date is August 14th and Odd knows something bad is going to happen the next day.

Odd keeps a close eye on this guy and makes sure that his close friends including Stormy stays as far away from Bob as possible. The most surprising part to me is when you find out that the killer is something completely different! I can't tell you the end of the story but I will just tell that the end is unexpected, a little confusing, and sad.

There are some very weird things in this story that make me wonder if there are really people that act like this. Overall though the story is very well written and I wold reccomend this to people.