So after talking up the Dean Koontz's single, Wilderness, a couple reviews earlier, I checked his latest book out from the library. This is the most recent in his series about his psychic/crimestopper Odd Thomas, aka OT.Our boy is a 20-something Southern California oddball with some unique talents. With a touch or a vision he can 'see' a crime that is due to happen so he goes on a mission to stop what he has foreseen.
OT has crossed paths with a Rhinestone Cowboy/big rig trucker and has seen that this guy will use a propane torch to mutilate 3 children. With the aid of a LOL (little old lady who needs a driver), he follows said trucker trying to learn more about when/where the crime will occur by using his 'psychic magnetism.'
When he goes into some storage building, he 'sees' not only his real-time universe, but also an alternate reality, and something from a parallel universe.
And after about 100 pages of this, I lost interest. Which surprised me. I've read my share of Stephen King (but stopped with The Stand - I guess 1000 pages was my limit) and plenty of early Robert McCammon dealt with the supernatural, but I just could not keep straight which reality OT was in at any time. I know there must be a substantial fan base for this storyline considering the number of titles and times these have been best sellers.
Think of this as sort of a cross between TVs The Early Edition (a very underrated show) with Spielberg's Minority Report (overrated, but that's just me), and Driving Miss Daisy. To me, the best parts of this book were OT and the LOL driving around and picking at each other. No idea if that partnership continued through the entire book.
But this won't stop me from reading Innocence, the book that the Koontz single was previewing. Should be getting that from the library in a couple weeks. But I'll not be venturing any further into the world of Odd Thomas.
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