you queried Andrea, sjl, but may I?  ...oh, oh, I wana, wana

"...have you read Koontz's Odd Thomas books? I love the character and the writing. Alternately laugh out loud funny and painfully sad within a few paragraphs... Brilliant."

(Perfectly expressed.)  Agreed!

Have you read up to and through Odd Hours? 

(Funny, heavy, funny, expansive plot..and a Magic Beach. Unassumingly courageous.)

 

&... Frankenstein..!

 

& I enjoyed his Christopher Snow period too. Prose a might too poetic for the hippity-hoppity hoi-polloi at large, maybe. One splendid paragraph blends into another on a fine gessoed canvas, ..beginning, ...middle, ..endless peeling layers of minute-by-minute, …macking breakers of story potential as long as there is a sun ..and a moon. 

 

...Thing about all three of these series is, ..Dean Koontz brought each separate and distinct epic to life with it’s own unique style. Sure, there are Koontz elements of all three tales in the whole of the mix..but, they move like 3 eccentric personalities that can share the same roof. 

 

Like-minded enough so that by the end of Frankenstein ~ Book Three, I got a feeling Deucalion has the believable potential to bump into Brotha Odd and Boo and the spirit of Odd’s beloved Stormy around a certain mountain monastery, in the high desert, ..under Cassiopeia. & if we’re really, really, lucky, Koontz and F. Paul Wilson are getting together every now and then, working on the plot that puts Repairman Jack in the same fray as Odd, Deucalion, Carson, Michael, Duke & Boo because it appears they are all in an ultimately simpatico struggle for life on this blue ballyhoo….