Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

Odd Thomas Series, Book 3

Publisher: Bantam (April 2012)

450 pages, eBook (purchased myself in a four-book bundle for $31.99)

Book Rating: 4 Stars

Following the death of the love of his life and a horrific encounter with a crazy voodoo woman, Odd feels he needs a time-out of sorts and decides to seek the simple life by taking his respite at a monastery in the Sierra Nevada mountains, knowing that if fate is to allow him a reprieve at all, it will not last forever. As he expected fate eventually catches up to him, despite his seemingly innocuous surroundings. Only in an Odd Thomas novel would circumstances lead to storm-suited monk commandoes that are entirely believable in such a role. One hardly thinks of nuns and monks having any other life before they entered the church, but the interesting backgrounds of the nuns and monks Odd comes to know was my favorite aspect of this book. I was a bit worried about cheese factor upon the appearance of the snow beast, but things worked out to a happily logical conclusion. I look forward to reading the next book in this series, Odd Hours.