Reviews - The 5th Horseman

301 reviews for:

The 5th Horseman

James Patterson

3.85 AVERAGE

vicky_wessels's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Never disappointed by James.
Just when I’ve figured out the next twist, it comes *but* it brings an unforeseen twist. Kept me on my toes. Loved it.

mrsjkamp's review against another edition

4.0

Very entertaining and fast-paced. You can tell there is a different writer collaborating with Patterson. It's not all about saying the killer's nickname 1000 times. The points-of-view are really neat, too. I like seeing it from different people, with only Lindsay in the first person. Definitely a different way of writing and telling the story. This one also had a trial, and I knew that one person involved from the beginning (not the obvious one, either). But I like following Lindsay's story, and I like the girls in the club. They are like my girls now.

rhealucy's review against another edition

4.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

megf101's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

jennifer_peters's review

3.75

mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

siobhanward's review against another edition

2.0

mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

I'm hoping these books start to get better soon because I really liked the first few but the last couple have just not been good.

The main plot (unexplained hospital deaths) made me super uneasy - definitely a new fear created... However, the secondary plot (car girls) was so disjointed from the rest of the book that I don't know what it existed?? Like girls were being murdered, we had a random moment of transphobia and then the plot was quickly wrapped up. What did it add to the rest of the book? Nothing as far as I can tell.

Overall the book just wasn't as good as it could have been - I feel like I'm getting more and more tired of Lindsay and would love to see more of Claire and the other women, but they've really just been sidelined the last couple of books unless they're experiencing personal tragedies.