{"id":947,"date":"2016-05-15T14:02:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T18:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vchiasson.com\/?p=947"},"modified":"2016-05-15T14:02:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T18:02:02","slug":"dean-koontz-saint-odd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vchiasson.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/15\/dean-koontz-saint-odd\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Koontz &#8220;Saint Odd&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51sPc-JSnUL._SX327_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"228\" \/>My favourite series is complete, and I don&#8217;t know where I go from here. I absolutely love Odd Thomas as a character. He has wit, humour, emotion, and just a sense of realness.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, it is time for me to say goodbye to Odd Thomas as his adventures are complete. <span class=\"readable reviewText\"><span id=\"freeTextContainerreview1619569652\">The final book in the series is brilliant, and brings us back to the first book, finally sealing the horrors that we as readers witnessed in <em>Odd Thomas<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There really is nothing else to say about this series, except that it is fantastic. I think this is Dean Koontz best series and his best character. Aside from maybe a few other novels (<em>The Husband, Intensity and Velocity)<\/em> Odd Thomas beats the rest.<\/p>\n<p>The writing flows, is real, and is a page-turner. Just look at how long it took me to read <em>Tick, Tock<\/em> compared to <em>Saint Odd,<\/em> and you can see that you should pick this series up!<\/p>\n<p>Follow my love of reading over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/show\/14881056-victoria\">goodreads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-947\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/vchiasson.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/15\/dean-koontz-saint-odd\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-947\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/vchiasson.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/15\/dean-koontz-saint-odd\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/vchiasson.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/15\/dean-koontz-saint-odd\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite series is complete, and I don&#8217;t know where I go from here. I absolutely love Odd Thomas as a character. He has wit, humour, emotion, and just a sense of realness. Alas, it is time for me to say goodbye to Odd Thomas as his adventures are complete. The final book in the&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/vchiasson.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/15\/dean-koontz-saint-odd\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dean Koontz &#8220;Saint Odd&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-947\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/vchiasson.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/15\/dean-koontz-saint-odd\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-947\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/vchiasson.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/15\/dean-koontz-saint-odd\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/vchiasson.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/15\/dean-koontz-saint-odd\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Finished the final #OddThomas book, and I'm a bit upset my favourite character's series is over. Dean Koontz \"Saint Odd\" review.","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3,4,9],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p69hvu-fh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":610,"url":"http:\/\/vchiasson.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/24\/dean-koontz-odd-interlude\/","url_meta":{"origin":947,"position":0},"title":"Dean Koontz \"Odd Interlude\"","date":"October 24, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh wow. I love that feeling when a book is so good that you read at any moment you can. This is Odd Interlude. A short side-adventure, but wow, what a ride. The chronological order for this book fits between Odd Apocalypse and Deeply Odd. 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