Dean Koontz...Odd Hours

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I finished Dean Koontz's newest book this weekend, from the Odd Thomas series, released May 20th, Odd Hours. It was nothing short of outstanding and I can't wait until Odd's next adventure! But, what I am really looking forward to is the possibility that Dean Koontz is weaving the lives of my two favorite Dean Koontz characters together. I think he is working towards a pairing of Odd Thomas with Christopher Snow and, if he does...it will be magnificent! It will be epic and spellbinding and, he will surpass all expectations I have for him. I already crave stories from those two characters more than I know how to deal with! I can't even begin to imagine how explosive, breathtaking, edge-of-my seat fun a story with both Odd Thomas and Christopher Snow will be! The reason that I think Dean Koontz is leaning towards a story with the two of them is because he made a quiet and nearly unnoticeable reference to two specific pieces of Christopher Snow's puzzle, in Odd Hours. Christopher Snow's mother headed a risky experiment at Fort Wyvern and the results have been dangerous and something that Christopher has had to deal with in order to protect humanity. Odd Thomas has a "Wyvern" sweatshirt which he speaks about a few times in Odd Hours. And, Christopher Snow has a baseball cap with the words "Mystery Train" on it. It has something to do with the mess his mother accidentally unleashed and it is always something he calls attention to throughout his stories. Now, Odd Thomas has a shirt with those words on it that he talks about in Odd Hours. I love everything Dean Koontz does and have read many of his books with many more to enjoy long into my future. But, I have never noticed any parallels in his books to other characters in other books. Perhaps I simply didn't remember them if they did show up. I nearly missed the references to Wyvern and the Mystery Train from Christopher Snow's world inside Odd Thomas' world in Odd Hours. And, it took the reference to Wyvern after he mentioned the Mystery Train to realized what I nearly let slip past me. I was confused by how Odd talked about the Mystery Train because I didn't connect the dots right away that it isn't a part of his character. So, perhaps the same has happened in other books by Dean Koontz. Anyway, I hope that Dean does weave their lives together! It would make sense and be so perfect! I currently don't have a favorite book ever! But, if Dean Koontz puts Odd and Christopher together...I know that that book will finally be something I can label as my favorite book ever! Has anyone else read Odd Hours yet? I know it is pretty fresh on the book shelves so, you may not have had a chance to pick it up yet. It is, after all, only a week old. Has anyone else been as big a fan of the Odd Thomas series? Has anyone else read the 2 books in the Christopher Snow series? The last of the Christopher Snow series was written in 1998 and Dean Koontz has been slowly writing the third in the series titled Ride the Storm, for the past decade. If you are a Dean Koontz fan and haven't read anything from either of those series, I highly recommend that you go out and grab them. You can google Dean Koontz and Odd Thomas and Christopher Snow and find the titles of the books in those series. I couldn't recommend them anymore if I tried as there are no words to describe the fun you will have reading them!