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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
Fast paced action and a quick read. Patterson's Alex Cross books are still some of my favorites from his prolific writing career. This book is a bit different from Alex and his law enforcement allies simply solving a case, but the difference works well and kept me turning pages until far too late at night.
I enjoyed this one. There were a few times in the book that I was tearing up as I felt my heartstrings pull and it kept me on the edge of my seat and turning the pages. Dare I say that we are getting the old school Patterson back?
I couldn't even get through it. I was surprised because I usually enjoy Alex Cross books, well most Patterson books actually. I really wanted to like it...but it never happened.
Fabulous! I loved the suspense, complexity of the characters, and the need to keep reading! Once again, James Patterson has written a book that I couldn't put down!
Sometimes you just need a brain dump, beach read. I'm over Alex Cross at this point.
After the last Alex Cross book I thought JP had lost his touch with Cross. I was skeptical about Hope to Die and I went into it waiting to be let down. JP was on fire with this story. It was one story line through the entire book and he rocked it. Alex's family was kidnapped in the last book and now he has to rescue his family. Just when you didn't think the blows could get any lower a new twist was thrown in. Even to the last couple of chapters JP made my heart sink and I wanted to scream at my book how could he do this to us. On to have the next twist thrown at us. And he leaves us hanging once again and I can't wait for Alex Cross to enter my life once again!
With family and especially nana momma held captive, we don’t have to bare the whiny family vs work crap. That makes this more interesting.
Made the terrible mistake reading this as my first "Alex Cross" novel. I've been a fan of JP for years and randomly picked this novel up not realizing I should have read a few others first.
It was a good read tho. Wish I had more of a back story first.
It was a good read tho. Wish I had more of a back story first.
So how many books does an author get to write before editors ignore their work and just put it out there? Obviously, James Patterson hit that number a long time ago.
I have read all of the Alex Cross books. I used to read the Women’s Murder Club books until they became writing by formula. I refuse to read the books co-authored by him after the first one, they are terrible. Now I ask myself, am I going to give up on Alex Cross?
Hope to Die is the continuation of Cross My Heart, which was atrocious. There are so many holes in this story that it should have been called, No Hope, Dead. Besides the flaws in police procedure, the under-played reaction of Cross to his situation and the total predictability of the story, there are too many facts that are just wrong. An example, Patterson describes Cross as “six feet two inches with a thirty inch reach”. I am only five feet eleven inches and I have a thirty five inch reach without stepping up on my toes.
So as not to reveal anything that might spoil the book for anyone who has not read it, I am going to stick to the flaws in the editing that make this a terrible read.
Patterson begins one chapter by describing “three birches that grew close together”. Hello, that is how birches are, planted three together, which everyone already knows. In that same chapter he says, “the dog went to the stove and lay down by the stove”. I didn’t think he went to the stove and lay down by the TV! In one chapter he tells us the alias used by the antagonist has shown up seven times in a internet search, a few chapters later he tells us this again.
The worst part of bad writing/non-editing is the chapter dealing with Alex Cross having to kill someone at the direction of Marcus Sunday (the antagonist). This chapter is written in first person so we are in Alex’s head. Okay so maybe I need to say spoiler alert here. We know and Alex knows that his killing is an act, but the thoughts in his head are portrayed as if they are. NO! Alex would not be having the emotions and physical response Patterson gives us knowing he is faking a killing.
If all of this were not bad enough, the ending is lame. For two books we have had a methodical, diabolical killer who is meticulous in his planning. He would not have put himself in the situation that he does to end this story.
James Patterson is a prolific writer and he used to be a good one. It is sad to see that all change.
This one gets one star.
I have read all of the Alex Cross books. I used to read the Women’s Murder Club books until they became writing by formula. I refuse to read the books co-authored by him after the first one, they are terrible. Now I ask myself, am I going to give up on Alex Cross?
Hope to Die is the continuation of Cross My Heart, which was atrocious. There are so many holes in this story that it should have been called, No Hope, Dead. Besides the flaws in police procedure, the under-played reaction of Cross to his situation and the total predictability of the story, there are too many facts that are just wrong. An example, Patterson describes Cross as “six feet two inches with a thirty inch reach”. I am only five feet eleven inches and I have a thirty five inch reach without stepping up on my toes.
So as not to reveal anything that might spoil the book for anyone who has not read it, I am going to stick to the flaws in the editing that make this a terrible read.
Patterson begins one chapter by describing “three birches that grew close together”. Hello, that is how birches are, planted three together, which everyone already knows. In that same chapter he says, “the dog went to the stove and lay down by the stove”. I didn’t think he went to the stove and lay down by the TV! In one chapter he tells us the alias used by the antagonist has shown up seven times in a internet search, a few chapters later he tells us this again.
The worst part of bad writing/non-editing is the chapter dealing with Alex Cross having to kill someone at the direction of Marcus Sunday (the antagonist). This chapter is written in first person so we are in Alex’s head. Okay so maybe I need to say spoiler alert here. We know and Alex knows that his killing is an act, but the thoughts in his head are portrayed as if they are. NO! Alex would not be having the emotions and physical response Patterson gives us knowing he is faking a killing.
If all of this were not bad enough, the ending is lame. For two books we have had a methodical, diabolical killer who is meticulous in his planning. He would not have put himself in the situation that he does to end this story.
James Patterson is a prolific writer and he used to be a good one. It is sad to see that all change.
This one gets one star.