Review: Dynamite comes in Odd packages
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2012
If you've ever read any of Koontz' short stories, you know he packs a punch and Odd Interlude #1 is no exception.  Just hours after the events ofOdd Hours: An Odd Thomas Novel, Odd and his mysterious companion, Annamaria, find themselves fleeing down the road under cover of night and stop in at Harmony Corner, a place which immediately fails to live up to its name.  Koontz is a master of turning familiar, mundane settings into enclaves of terror.  I especially enjoyed the conversations between Annamaria and Odd.  I've readOdd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novelalready and now have enough clues to form a theory as to her identity, largely from her portrayal here, and am very excited to see if I am correct when the final two novels are released (Darkly Odd in Spring 2013).  In this first installment, Odd just wants a little peace and quiet to get some sleep, but there is no rest for either the weary or the wicked.  And there is definitely something wicked in Harmony Corner.  As Odd begins unravelling the evil in which he finds himself, things go from bad to worse.  Now in acute desparation, Odd finds himself in another of Koontz' most foreboding locals, a section of the enigmatic Fort Wyvern of the Chris Snow novels (Fear Nothing,Seize the Night, and a forthcoming third novel).  Fans of either the Odd Thomas or Chris Snow novels will be delighted with this one.  The suspense never lets up and leaves the reader with a wonderful cliffha......