Brother Odd vs Odd Hours: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Mediums, Paranormal, Fiction
Brother Odd
Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever…
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Odd Hours
A mystery in Magic Beach, California, has lured Odd to the small town by the ocean -- but is it the call of the deep or the cry of the desperate? Odd is having dreams of a red tide, vague but worrisome.
The verdict
- Readers rate Brother Odd highest: Brother Odd 4.0 · Odd Hours 3.7.
- Odd Hours is the quickest read — about 6 hours vs 8 for Brother Odd.
- Brother Odd has the widest readership — 70768 ratings behind its score.
- Brother Odd runs the darker storyline; Odd Hours stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Brother Odd | Odd Hours | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (70768) | 3.3 (836) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (1) | 3.8 (109) |
| Google Books | 4.5 (4) | 4.5 (12) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (443) | 4.5 (359) |
Reception
| Brother Odd | Odd Hours | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 70768 | 836 |
| Editions | 26 | 24 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 17579 | — |
| Reading it now | 1265 | — |
| Written reviews | 2834 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 361 | 356 |
| Pages | 464 | 352 |