Forever Odd
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| Author | Dean Koontz |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Suspense, Psychological |
| Publisher | Bantam Publishing |
| Released | 2005 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 352 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-553-80416-2 |
| Preceded by | Odd Thomas |
| Followed by | Brother Odd |
Forever Odd is a 2005 novel by Dean Koontz, and the sequel to Odd Thomas. The plot takes place six months after the events of Odd Thomas.
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[edit] Plot summary
After Odd discovers that his childhood friend Danny has been kidnapped, he assumes that Danny's father, who was recently released from prison, has kidnapped him. Therefore, Odd investigates and is led through a water tunnel and into an abandoned hotel by his psychic magnetism.
Inside, he finds his friend tied up and strapped to a bomb. Danny informs him that his dad did not kidnap him. Instead, Danny recounts that, because of his loneliness from a debilitating bone disease, he called a phone sex line and spoke with a woman named Datura. The woman informed Danny of her obsession with the paranormal, leading Danny to inform her about Odd's special abilities. She then kidnapped Danny in order to meet Odd.
Odd leaves Danny and finds Datura in her room with two thugs, Cheval Robert and Cheval Andre. She orders Odd to show her ghosts. Reluctantly, Odd takes her to the casino in the hotel where he previously saw many ghosts and one poltergeist. Datura insults a ghost, and the enraged poltergeist flings objects at them. At this point, Odd escapes from Datura, returns to Danny, and disarms the bomb. Odd returns to Datura's room and finds a shotgun, which he uses to kill Cheval Robert. Datura finds him by reverse psychic magnetism; as they are talking, a mountain lion attacks her from behind. An angry Cheval Andre chases Odd through the hotel, before Odd kills Cheval Andre in a sewer.
Odd dies from the experience in the sewer and a head injury and visits three of his friends,but comes back to life in front of the Blue Moon Café with no idea how he got there. Odd accompanies the Chief Porter to the hotel, where they rescue Danny. Two months later, Odd makes plans to work in a monastery in an attempt to find some peace.
[edit] Characters
[edit] Odd Thomas
Odd, the protagonist, can see dead people. He must save his friend Danny Jessup.
[edit] Danny Jessup
Danny is Odd's best friend, Datura kidnaps him after he tells her about ghosts on a phone sex line. His bone disease makes him susceptible to bone fractures.
[edit] Cheval Andre & Cheval Robert
Cheval Andre and Cheval Robert are thugs of Datura "killed" by Odd. They are perhaps zombies, in view of their apparent hunger for flesh, that they never speak, and that they disappear after being "killed".
[edit] Datura
Datura is Odd's main antagonist. She kidnaps Danny and takes him to an old, abandoned hotel. She is obsessed by ghosts, and wants to see them, as Odd can.
[edit] Odd Series
Forever Odd is the second of three novels about Odd Thomas; the first being Odd Thomas, and the third Brother Odd.
