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Summary: Suprisingly Brilliant
Review: Not since his first has this author produced a book like that of Four Blind Mice. In its entirety it is the greatest new book available. I also recommende Dreams Gateway to the True Self by Ryan Nicholas Belcher--a story of self knowledge.
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Summary: Boring
Review: I can't believe this is the same author of the previous Alex Cross novels. It seems to me that the author cranked this out over a weekend. Patterson did not take the time to develop the characters or any of the background. I'll reading reviews on his new books before running off to buy his books. Maybe this is why sales are down for popular authors. They seem to be just cranking out junk just to make more money. What a shame.
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Summary: Not even worth finishing
Review: Has Patterson now reverted to publishing only for dollars? Sadly, I think so. The character development is weak, the plot absurd. I can think of nothing positive to say about this effort.
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Summary: Poor writing.
Review: This was really a terrible book. I hated the cardboard characters and the plot that looked like it was recycled from watching B-thriller films from the 1950's.
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Summary: Don't waste your time ...
Review: unless you don't mind a preposterous, unbelievable plot, and enjoy reading about Cross's incredibly perfect family and his new love interest (both story lines totally unrelated to the plot). Fortunately it's a very short book, so you won't be wasting a lot of time - but don't blame this reviewer when you reach the end and exclaim: "What the h...!" But if you want a really enjoyable suspense novel, try anything by Michael Connelly - especially "The Poet."
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Summary: Nothing from something
Review: Loose ends, magic wand recoveries, gratuitous relationships
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Summary: A turgid mess
Review: This book was boring, completely unbelievable, poorly written, and terribly plotted. Other than that I really didn't like it. The characters were cardboard cut-outs-especially the bad guys. The "love scenes" were painful- I don't care how Jam's lips taste one time, let alone 3 or 4 times. The climactic shoot-out was SO predictable I laughed. The gratuitous violence against women in this book makes one wonder ... Yes it's a murder mystery and people die in thrillers but wholesale slaughter of 3 housewives, 4 prostitutes in a brothel, not to mention what happens to them before they are killed-was sick and, more importantly, added nothing to the narrative. Wish I'd been the fifth blind mouse so I couldn't have read this.
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Summary: Vintage but somewhat soft-edged
Review: I love James Patterson books, but the Cross novels are becoming a little predictable, and I think Patterson is losing his hard-hitting edge that was existent in Midnight Club and Kiss The Girls. Still excellent narration, top quality writing and great suspense novels, but not his best.DO! DO! DO! read Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas - don't let anyone tell you its a chick book.
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Summary: Train Them To Kill, And They Will Kill
Review: This is another thriller involving Alex Cross, the Washington, DC, detective/psychologist. I like Alex Cross. Unlike the foul-mouthed, socially-dysfunctional detectives in so many novels, he is a gentle family man, and we hear almost as much about his family life as his detective work. Still, tension is with us throughout the story. In Four Blind Mice, we meet the psychotic killers early in the tale and follow their trail as they kill again and again. Some victims are persons the killers are paid to murder. Some victims just happen to get in the way, and women victims are killed for fun. The killers are three, former Special Forces assassins who get pleasure from killing. It's up to Alex Cross, his partner John Samson, and the FBI to catch these crazies, but it isn't easy because Army officers block the lawmen repeatedly. At the end, we learn the identity of the fourth blind mouse, the highly-placed person who orders the killings. The story proceeds at Patterson's usual breakneck speed and gets more tense as it continues. If you like thrillers, this is for you.
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Summary: Not bad...very short.....
Review: Let me first start by saying that I have read all of the Cross novels and I enjoyed them all to some degreee. I will say that it seems like the author is running out of fresh ideas. This book was very short the story line went along like so many of the other but without that extra something that made the first few novels great(AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT TURNING CRAIG INTO A NUT WAS HORRIBLE).
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