Odd Thomas is one of my favorite fictional characters of all time and I tremendously enjoyed this installment of the series. However the ending concerned me a bit. We are obviously being setting up for the remaining books in the series. Odd now has a female sidekick and a couple of dogs with him, which kind of makes me a little concerned that Koontz is trying to shoe-horn these books into his standard formula. I can only hope these books continue to remain unique and interesting.

This book moves along the story which was begun in The Prodigal Son and sets us up for the ultimate battle of good vs. evil. However the actual end of this story is still at least one book away.

This book and City of Night comprise Koontz's musings on the premise of "What would happen if the Frankenstein legend were true?" He brings the man and the monster into present times and lets his imagination run free. I really enjoyed this first volume and am interested to see how well everything is resolved in volume 2.