Odd Thomas Analysis

Odd Thomas is a twenty year old male who works as a fry cook in Pico Mundo (a fictional desert town in California). He can make himself heard by and see spirits of the dead. They can only signal to him and mouth words to him, and even help him prevent certain things from happening, but they cannot talk to him in a way that he can hear. At times, the spirits that talk to odd want justice for something that happened long ago. And over the course of the novels, he even talks to different dead celebrities like Alfred Hitchcock, Elvis Presley, and Frank Sinatra. Besides having a unique gift to see spirits, he also has some writing ability. His odd name is an error that found it 's way onto his birth certificate; he was supposed to be named either

The series is meant to be read in order, without a while lot of skipping around (this includes the short stories). Not only are there seven novels to the series, but there are also short stories and graphic novels.

ODD THOMAS AWARDS:

The final installment in the series, "Saint Odd" won Goodreads Choice Award for Horror award in 2015. The first installment of the series is also a New York Times Bestseller.

ODD THOMAS BOOKS INTO MOVIES:

The first novel in the series, "Odd Thomas", was made into a movie that was released in 2013. It starred Anton Yelchin as Odd Thomas and Willem

Odd has to stop a new guy who comes to the town of Pico Mundo looking to bring a catastrophe. Odd has to race against time to stop it before things go terribly wrong. He realizes right from the first time he meets the new man (after dubbing him Fungus Man) that there is not something quite right about the guy, and finds out that not only is the guy a bodach (an evil spirit that feasts on pain whose presence alerts those who know that violence is on the way)

"Forever Odd"

The sequel to "Odd Thomas", the novel takes place just six months after the first novel. Odd finds out that his friend Danny from when he was a kid has been kidnapped, and Danny 's step-dad has been murdered in a brutal manner. The assumption, at first, is that the boy 's father who has just been released from prison has kidnapped his son. Through his psychic abilities, Odd is able to find Danny, and he tells Odd that he met a woman through sketchy means and he informed the woman of Odd 's gift. So she kidnapped him in order to meet Odd.

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