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Summary: James Patterson Lite
Review: The characters and the premise were fine. I just wish that he had added more suspense. I liked the story, but kept waiting for something truly exciting to happen; unfortunately it never did. Certainly worth reading, but not as good as his other books (Cross AND non Cross).
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Summary: WHO wrote this?
Review: "When the Wind Blows" reads so much like a Dean Kootz book, it's frightening. (Well, not really frightening...just kinda weird.) The main characters have that Kootz-esque feel about them (the men mysterious and handsome, the women bright, gutsy and independent and the children smart and unusual), the plot is paper-thin, and the title has little to do with the story at all!While Kootz has many fans and has had a ba-zillion bestsellers, he's not exactly the author I'd like to see cloned in the future (maybe Anne Tyler, perhaps John Irving...I could even live with Stephen King). To see Patterson move from his exciting, fast-paced and (arguably) believable mystery genre to this sci-fi/conspiracy/thriller is a disappointment.
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Summary: I can hardly believe James Patterson wrote this drivel,
Review: Patterson's Alex Cross books are closely plotted with characters that are believable and that the reader cares about, totally unlike this science fantasy that would not even make a tv movie plot. I wonder if Patterson's 14 year old daughter wrote it and Patterson published it under his name just to see if a best selling author could get an otherwise unpublishable book in print. I wish I could get my money back.
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Summary: when the wind blows? it certainly does!!!
Review: My honest opnion is that James Patterson hit his peak with Along Came a Spider. This book only confirms my suspcions. When The Wind Blows is a contrived X-Files meets Frankenstein rip-off. The plot concerns a lonely women, whose husband died mysteriously (of course) and the driven FBI agent who is on the case. Oh yea, get this: the agent is a maverick working against the wishes of his superiors. That has never been done before! The book gets off to an insipid chase sequence when two young kids escape from a testing facility. The kids are genetically mutated and have been given wings. Which humans have always needed. Of course the kid ties into the FBI agent's case and so does the woman. It turns out the woman's husband was involved with the testing. Every plot surprise is anything but. I could go on about uninspired dialogue but why don't you just go and read anotheer book. Or wait until another Alex Cross novel is written by the author.
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Summary: While a good novel, not his best
Review: His other books have held me spell-bound. At times I had difficulty keeping my interest. The average time for me to read one of his books is probably two evenings. This one took a week of evenings
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Summary: James Patterson boldly goes where he has not been before
Review: James Patterson boldly goes where he has not been before and it's definitely a mistakes. He unwisely ventures from his familiar dominion of the ever-successful psychological thriller (the Alex Cross series) to this childish genetical "thriller" (if I may say so, for this book hardly thrills). The book moves quickly with its plot: Each chapter is about two to three pages, as his books always are. The central male character, Kit Harrison, shamelessly copied from Mulder of the X-files, goes in search of a genetic experiment, under specific order from the director of the FBI not to continue investigating the case that was declared closed some years ago.(Sound familiar?) If you read one book this year, read Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. If you plan to read all the books published this year, leave out this one!
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Summary: An excellent,quick,exciting, non-stop action. A great read.
Review: Although not on the caliber of his Alex Cross novels. When The Wind Blows is an excellent read. His writing style is ever changing with each story yet remain the same in it's captivation and ability to totally draw the reader in. I highly recomend it for any Patterson lovers.
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Summary: Terrible. An utter disappointment from a master author.
Review: Unbelievable. James Patterson is one of my favorite authors, and I have read every book. This was one of the worst books I have ever read. Unbelievable that he could have penned it. An utter departure from his last six novels. Alex Cross would be ashamed.
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Summary: Innovative
Review: An interesting topic. This book is among Patterson's best
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Summary: Technical topic written in 5th grade style.
Review: I've read all of Patterson's books so far and have enjoyed most of them,particularly the Alex Cross novels. "When the Wind Blows" was a big disappointment. The short choppy chapters began to wear on me and after a while I wondered how much white space was consumed by this technique. I counted 122 pages of the novel's 416 that were essentially blank. That and the double spacing made the book look a lot more substantial than it is. I noted in the remarks made by others that many had read the book in one sitting. That would be easy to do. Ironically, the subject matter in this work is probably the most complex of any of Patterson's works so far, yet the style and the characters were almost disneyesque. I felt as though I was reading a Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew escapade. I hope Patterson will get back to Alex Cross. He did a fine job with that character.
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