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Summary: BRAVO!!!!!
Review: THIS BOOK WAS ABSOLUTLY FANTASTIC.GREAT SUSPENCE,I SIMPLY CANT WAIT FOR THE SEQUEL TO BE RELEASED
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Summary: A good Patterson story, but not his best
Review: While this story started in true suspenseful Patterson form, it fell short at the end as it got too emotional and predictable. It was certianly not in the same league as Kiss The Girls.
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Summary: Disoriented, contrived, disappointing.
Review: Were it not for my rule to finish every book I start, this book would have been closed and put away long before Gary Soneji met his demise. Mr. Patterson piqued my interest with his previous books but Cat & Mouse was a big disappointment.The storyline was halting and contrived. The dialogue weak and not fitting to the characters. The editing was sloppy and contributed to an already weak plot that frequently wandered off into unsatisfying and unresolved tangents. The overall impression with which I was left was that of an author with a large advance, a tight deadline, a potential movie deal and no insight into where he wanted to take the story. Perhaps the story wasn't what was important to Mr. Patterson in this novel. We can only hope that the next novel will gain from all that was lost here. If not, the author has permanently lost a reader.
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Summary: A slack job compared to his other books
Review: I'm a fan of Patterson's books and his Alex's series. As much as 'Along Came a Spider' and 'Kiss the Girls' are original and page-turning, 'Cat and Mouse' is poorly written (feels like a first draft) with very little to offer to the reader. There is nothing new, and the end is dissapointing and cliched. Don't bother. Wait for the next one.
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Summary: 5 Stars-AGAIN for Mr. Patterson!
Review: Mr. Patterson is an excellent writer. From the reviews of many of his readers at this site, I can see that most of them will agree with me. Although negative comments have been made about his characters and plots, I think that since it IS a book--NONFICTION at that--some things have to be overtly imaginative and creative to keep audiences' noses in the books. He deals w/ reality with a touch of unreality--enough excitement to keep the reader going. I praise him for stepping over the boundary of a white author with black characters, which is a big step in this arena. He keeps the characters real as possible w/o making them boring. He hits on all aspects of Alex Cross' life, which is reality--no part of one's life is separate from the others. Much prasie for James Patterson and his Alex Cross Novels! He, Sidney Sheldon, and Steve Martini are the masters of suspense!
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Summary: OK
Review: This wasn't as good as "Kiss the Girls". I was a little disappointed. The personal stuff drug on too long!!! This could have been a 3 hour book.
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Summary: Patterson is the epitomy of a good read.
Review: There are lots of elements of Patterson's novel that one could fault: the sentimentality of the idealized Alex Cross in his new love life (with a new "serious" love interest he forgets not only about the fling he had with a fellow worker in a previous novel but even his dead wife) and his mother and young children and friend Sampson, the patching together of two stories - the old Soneji and the new Mr. Smith, and the anti-climaxes of their respective demises. Sure. But then there is Patterson's mastery of the short chapter, in which one action is completed moving us to the next short cahpter, the pacing that's like a motion picture but taking advantage of novelistic devices, the good-vs.-evil patterns that he satisfies. It is really hard to put down this book, for all those reasons, and those virtues overwhelm his faults. The romantic interest is certainly sentimental, as is his adoration of his children, but it raises the stakes, humanizes the otherwise action-centeredness, and is always heartfelt. The idealization of Alex Cross is done with a care for a definition of real decency. The anti-climaxes soften the hovering over detailed morbidity (that has become so much a part of Cornwell, for instance). Patterson is alot of second-rate things, but he is a first-rate entertainment.
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Summary: predictable, overdone, confusing
Review: I have read at least five or six Patterson books; this was my least favorite. I found the narrative confusing as Patterson switched from first to third person and then switched people narrating in first person. I was disappointed in the way he chose to end the Soneji episode and move to the Mr. Smith scenario. I would have liked to see more of Soneji. In that regard, I had the killer figured out before Alex did. And finally, I thought Patterson overdid the descriptions in the various bloodlettings that seemed to go on endlessly in the book.
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Summary: Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down!
Review: James Patterson has the uncanny ability to get into the minds of psychotic, brillant killers, corrupt politicians and a down-to-earth detective! This is an incredible addition to the Alex Cross series!
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Summary: Disappointingly Obvious
Review: I'm a huge fan of Patterson's, though I must admit that I've only read his Alex Cross books. So, of course I picked up Cat & Mouse immediately when I saw it in the bookstore. Was I happy? At first. Was I satisfied? Not in the end. Cat & Mouse is nowhere near as good as the excellent Kiss The Girls. And, after the three novel build-up in regards to the Soneji case, I would have at least liked him to have spent the whole novel on that matter, not simply to have tossed it off midway through as he has done here. And the case that he puts it on the backburner for is so painfully boring that I had trouble even keeping interest. I honestly knew who the killer was going to turn out to be within seconds of first meeting him, and it would have been nice if Patterson could have thrown at least a few red herrings the readers's way, or at least flipped it on its head at the end and have it turn out to be someone else entirely. Anything. Please, anything. This is one book whose ending I hope they do change when it's eventually made into a movie.
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