On Brother Odd

Brother Odd is the third book in Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas series. Odd, exhausted by the ordeals of the last year or so, is taking a sabbatical as a guest in a monastery with an adjacent school run by nuns for children with severe mental and physical disabilities. When Odd spots bodachs, evil spirits attracted by violence, hovering over some children in the school, he knows something terrible is about to happen. Helped by Brother Salvatore, affectionately known as "Knuckles," Odd must avert the disaster before the school and everyone one in it are destroyed.

Pros: As a Catholic, I greatly enjoy any accurate book about nuns and monks, and this book is accurate. Also, it dispels the myth that the Catholic Church has historically been anti-science. The idea! As if it wasn't the Church that built the first universities, as if Jesuit priests weren't sometimes scientists themselves. It's also a great story. And spooky! Brrr!

Cons: I guessed the resolution.

My Rating: T (sexual references, language, spooky things)

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