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Summary: Best Departure EVER!
Review: Ordinarily I do not like the author to depart from his/her norm, but Patterson succeeded in rekindling my interest in the Middle Ages and the crusades. Very picturesque - felt like I was there.
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Summary: A Great Change of Pace!!
Review: I have listened to many of Patterson's books and this is one of the best! Though a bit on the bloody side, it kept me continually interested and involved in the time period and story line. A touch of romance, lots of "honor", action and challenges and a wonderful narrator that adds the perfect accent to the words.Highly recommend this audiobook!!
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Summary: Patterson did it again!
Review: Great book! The book sucked me in from the start. I actually felt like I was there with the vivid scenes. A lot of people had a hard time with the violence, but I am afraid that is the way the world was back then. The hero is also great in his adventures. I loved it and hope that he decides to write another in the this era.
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Summary: Enjoyable!
Review: Actually the best Patterson I have read. It is easy to read, but very enjoyable. You actually really get into the characters and the time period. Don't know how accurate it is, but it was quite convincing. Makes me want to read more about the Crusades.
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Summary: Disappointing book
Review: Have loved reading James Patterson's books, and really looked forward to reading this one. But, like other commentators, was only able to read 100 pages, before putting it aside, never to read it any further. Very disappointing work.
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Summary: Page Turner?....more like cure for insomnia
Review: I'm not sure what book of Mr. Patterson the other reviewers were reading, but "The Jester" may just be the book that makes the current "The Cat Who..." series read like real mysteries. This book is filled with absolutly no plot, no story line, and its only reason for appearing in print must be that ignorant people will buy anything published by certain authors. If you don't believe that, consider James Michener's last group of "best" sellers. Pap is Pap, no matter who writes it.
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Summary: The Jester
Review: Cannot tell you how disappointed I am with this book. Read about 70 pages and could take no more. The killing and torturing were just not something I need to hear.
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Summary: Boring and bloody......
Review: What a disappointment! I found this story highly overrated. It could have been written in a hundred pages. It's simply the same bloody, gorey scene over and over. It's also very predictable. The "Jester" is a likable character, but not likable enough to save this dreary story. Patterson needs to stick to his usual genres.
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Summary: loved-hated it
Review: I couldn't put the book down and read the whold thing virtually in one sitting. I don't advocate or like it when anything bad befalls the innocent, young and babies specifically. However there probably is truth to the infanticide of the times and in fact our own times e.g. Iraq. This was not an escapist book for me and the overt brutality was disturbing because it is probably all too real.
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Summary: Adult Robin Hood
Review: James Patterson's brave step away from his normal murder mystery novels (hope Alex Cross will be coming back soon) is in a way a great success on the other a bit tame. The action pieces I feel as though I can actually picture them and the blood and dramatic descriptions are quite gruelling. But I feel Patterson should stick to what he is in my opinion the best murder thriller author around.
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