Forever Odd (Odd Thomas Series #2) » (Reprinted Edition)

Amazingly prolific and relentlessly suspenseful, Dean Koontz can be counted on for chilling, sometimes gory stories that occasionally overlap genres. His novels can jump from straightforward crime to sci-fi to horror, but the one thing he's consistent about is delivering nail-biting yarns that have kept fans reading for more than three decades.

Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of listeners that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the chapter ends. For such a character, one book is not enough—listeners must know what happens next. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique young hero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal parts suspense and terror, adventure and mystery—and altogether irresistibly odd.

We’re all a little odd beneath the surface. He’s the most unlikely hero you’ll ever meet—an ordinary guy with a modest job you might never look at twice. But there’s so much more to any of us than meets the eye—and that goes triple for Odd Thomas. For Odd lives always between two worlds in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, where the heroic and the harrowing are everyday events. Odd never asked to communicate with the dead—it’s something that just happened....

The New York Times - Janet Maslin

Forever Odd retains the voice of the earlier book. It also retains some super-cute characters, like the ghost of Elvis Presley, who wordlessly hangs around Pico Mundo. A lot about these books can be deduced from the way they present Elvis: he is lionized for his faith, his struggles and especially for his devotion to his mother. The ending of this second Odd Thomas story indicates that dead Elvis will also be around for a third, and hence that Mr. Koontz is no fool.