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cornerofmadness 's review for:
Run for Your Life
by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
This is the second in this series I've tried and it was better than the first if you ignore the pure Hollywood craptacular ending (seriously it felt like Patterson & Ledwidge sat there thinking bet they make a movie of this so let's give it an action film ending. One star all the way). I've been reading this out of order and didn't realize this was #2. Maybe if I had read the first it would make more sense but it seems odd, knowing what little I do about adoption that anyone would allow for ten kids to be adopted by a single income family especially when the Dad is going to be gone all the time. Honestly I don't find his family to be distracting and not really adding much to this other than enforcing gender stereotypes (not to mention Catholic ones as he leaves the care of his kids to the uber Irish Catholic Mary). Especially in this one as they all have the stomach flu and we get endless descriptions of where they've puked and how often.
The serial killer in this, the Teacher, is interesting, killing people who service the rich (and are snotty as they do it) to 'teach' them a lesson. His motivation is weak but at least the mystery is interesting IF you ignore the fact that this all opened with a hostage negotiation where the criminal was killed by a sniper and the police (including Bennet) were blamed. And we never hear about this again, never figure out who that sniper is. In fact the only time we hear about this is all the protests cropping up everywhere including in front of Bennet's house (really? He's not even worried about this) so his kids can tell the protestors they're poopy heads or some nonsense.
I think I'm done with this series. It's not for me. Too bad since I really liked the Alex Cross series.
And a spoiler of a sorts for the ending (look away now if you don't want to know). Shooting their way onto an air field (with Bennet as hostage) then stealing a small plane and flying all over NYC with the intent of crashing it into some rich person's place and them fighting in the cockpit before ditching in the river and Bennet somehow not dying. Head desk.
The serial killer in this, the Teacher, is interesting, killing people who service the rich (and are snotty as they do it) to 'teach' them a lesson. His motivation is weak but at least the mystery is interesting IF you ignore the fact that this all opened with a hostage negotiation where the criminal was killed by a sniper and the police (including Bennet) were blamed. And we never hear about this again, never figure out who that sniper is. In fact the only time we hear about this is all the protests cropping up everywhere including in front of Bennet's house (really? He's not even worried about this) so his kids can tell the protestors they're poopy heads or some nonsense.
I think I'm done with this series. It's not for me. Too bad since I really liked the Alex Cross series.
And a spoiler of a sorts for the ending (look away now if you don't want to know). Shooting their way onto an air field (with Bennet as hostage) then stealing a small plane and flying all over NYC with the intent of crashing it into some rich person's place and them fighting in the cockpit before ditching in the river and Bennet somehow not dying. Head desk.