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bethpeninger 's review for:
Murder Games
by Howard Roughan, James Patterson
After completing our Harry Potter marathon the youngest redhead and I needed a new (to us) audio book to listen to. We landed on this James Patterson given her past history with other Patterson books (one of his YA series). I have never read Patterson which seems unbelievable given my love for crime novels and the such. Regardless.
This new series for Patterson features criminal behaviorist Dr. Dylan Reinhart. He's written a book that someone has decided to use as a playbook of sorts for their own murders. A serial killer is making his or her way through specific residents of NYC and using a deck of playing cards as hints toward who is next. As Sherlock would say, "The game is afoot." Fearing the killer is going to go through the whole deck of cards, Reinhart is recruited by Detective Elizabeth Needham to help figure out who it is. It is said that all killers eventually make a mistake, so Reinhart and Detective Needham are counting on it.
As I mentioned, I haven't read any Patterson before so I only have this title to go off of. The longer we listened to the book the more cliches I heard used. Lots and lots of cliches. Lots. However, I swallowed them down because the story, well the crime, interested me. In the end I felt like the revealed killer was...anti-climatic. Not that I guessed who it was so I wasn't surprised, it was more like, "Eh. That's not so thriller." It felt to me like Patterson did all this work developing the killer's character and then when the killer was revealed I didn't buy it. It felt and read, in my opinion, like two different people. I was way more interested in the killer before it was revealed who it was. Once that revelation occurred I felt very let down. And then Patterson dragged the story out a few more chapters, to give the story an extra twist I suppose, but by then I was no longer invested or interested. I just wanted the book to end. Will I read other Patterson? Probably not. I won't give a definite no but with so many other thriller authors out there that I do love I'm not sure I want or need to spend time on someone I am not super impressed with.
This new series for Patterson features criminal behaviorist Dr. Dylan Reinhart. He's written a book that someone has decided to use as a playbook of sorts for their own murders. A serial killer is making his or her way through specific residents of NYC and using a deck of playing cards as hints toward who is next. As Sherlock would say, "The game is afoot." Fearing the killer is going to go through the whole deck of cards, Reinhart is recruited by Detective Elizabeth Needham to help figure out who it is. It is said that all killers eventually make a mistake, so Reinhart and Detective Needham are counting on it.
As I mentioned, I haven't read any Patterson before so I only have this title to go off of. The longer we listened to the book the more cliches I heard used. Lots and lots of cliches. Lots. However, I swallowed them down because the story, well the crime, interested me. In the end I felt like the revealed killer was...anti-climatic. Not that I guessed who it was so I wasn't surprised, it was more like, "Eh. That's not so thriller." It felt to me like Patterson did all this work developing the killer's character and then when the killer was revealed I didn't buy it. It felt and read, in my opinion, like two different people. I was way more interested in the killer before it was revealed who it was. Once that revelation occurred I felt very let down. And then Patterson dragged the story out a few more chapters, to give the story an extra twist I suppose, but by then I was no longer invested or interested. I just wanted the book to end. Will I read other Patterson? Probably not. I won't give a definite no but with so many other thriller authors out there that I do love I'm not sure I want or need to spend time on someone I am not super impressed with.