A review by luckthelady
Honeymoon by Howard Roughan, James Patterson

3.0

I read this book as a complement to the masterclass.com course I'm taking with James Patterson. I wanted to see how it differed from the outline he put in the workbook. All the page-turny things from the outline are still there, coupled with more twists likely thrown in during the writing process.

This is the first time I've ever read a book and thought, "Ah, okay, this how one goes about industrialising the act of writing fiction in one's life." That isn't a bad thing—but I can see how tightly or loosely Patterson cleaves to his outline, where he thought to elaborate and where he left it to the reader, and how efficiently he moves us from page to page. I liked this.