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A review by melbsreads
Ali Cross by James Patterson
3.0
Trigger warnings: violence, disappearance of a friend.
I wanted to love this, because there are so few crime novels for the lower YA/upper MG end of the market, and this was exactly that.
However.
The writing was really not very good. I didn't love the changing perspectives between Ali and Alex Cross, because the intended readership likely have no experience of Alex Cross and so picking up on plot points (I assume) from the Alex Cross series here seemed...somewhat pointless. Frankly, I would have preferred this if Alex had been a background character rather than a protagonist because I just don't think it's necessary to have a 50-something police officer dealing with his own investigations as a perspective character that's about his middle grade son looking for his missing friend.
That being said, it was very easy to read and I devoured it cover-to-cover in like an hour and a half. So. There's that.
I wanted to love this, because there are so few crime novels for the lower YA/upper MG end of the market, and this was exactly that.
However.
The writing was really not very good. I didn't love the changing perspectives between Ali and Alex Cross, because the intended readership likely have no experience of Alex Cross and so picking up on plot points (I assume) from the Alex Cross series here seemed...somewhat pointless. Frankly, I would have preferred this if Alex had been a background character rather than a protagonist because I just don't think it's necessary to have a 50-something police officer dealing with his own investigations as a perspective character that's about his middle grade son looking for his missing friend.
That being said, it was very easy to read and I devoured it cover-to-cover in like an hour and a half. So. There's that.