One of Dean's stories about Odd Thomas, and it's a pretty odd story. He has some pregnant female with him who is hiding during the day and most of the story. Or in some mysterious room or whatever. We never get a good explanation about her or her pregnancy. Actually we get NOTHING about her.
Odd apparently watched his last girlfriend (Stormy) die and he's sort of in mourning while trying to solve the riddle of the house that he and the preggo were invited to. Seems like no one does any maintenance yet the house remains spotless, the grounds clean of debris. He stumbles upon ghosts, like Tesla, Hitchcock, a woman on a horse who keeps shaking her stupid head when asked if her son needs to be "brought back" to where ever he came from. Never get much of an explanation about that.
So the house goes about it's business while pig-like creatures show up during "high tides" meaning tides of time or some such thing and they get smart enough to use utensils to kill people with. When Odd is trying to escape they of course benefit his cause (unintentionally) by killing people in his way.
I guess I'd have to say the book is somewhat confusing, a 95 year old child he leaves the premises with who is supposed to die if he leaves, and he takes the calming all-knowing enigmatic pregnant woman with him while I think the house is dissolving or something. End of story. Stranger than fiction.
I wasn't nuts about it. It's about the house being a Tesla invented time machine of some kind. There's a little hint for ya'll.
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