In a piece that explores numerous crimes, jammed into a single novel, Patterson helps advance his protagonist and the entire Cross family in this great book. Alex Cross may have formally left police work behind, but has investigative skills that have never waned. The series, which has ebbed and flowed-much like the author’s story writing-has proven to be somewhat more entertaining of late. Retuning for another instalment of James Patterson’s cornerstone series, I eagerly wondered what Alex Cross would find himself doing. As an avid fan of this series, it’s going downhill. Its going more action and less psychological. I dislike where the direction this is going in. It’s a frustrating read, reading one of your favourite series and finding out there’s triple the amount of plots needed in the book- with filler scenes and dips in quality. The minute we started jumping from one plot to another is where the quality continuously drops. It’s one big mess pot of a book.ĭue to the juggling act of keeping so many plots alive, one thing is sacrificed- yup that’s quality. Don’t forget the little adventure Ali cross goes on, and the killers POV. On top of that you have Bree stone trying to track down a missing CEO and solve a murder of a young runner who’s friends with Alex cross daughter, Janine. Whilst cross and Sampson are trying to catch a serial killer dubbed the dead hours murders killing men across different states. The main plot is about how an American airline plane is shot down using a rare machine gun and there’s a terrorist on the loose tryna be someone else. Patterson tried to pull off the double name game, like Gynthia Lodge and her series and it seriously backfired on this one. Honestly, everything in this book was convoluted. I don’t like the direction the book is going towards in all honestly. The story line for Bree was choppy and convoluted, and made her involvement and literal presence completely useless. There’s filler scenes, we see the perspective of the ‘culprit’ and the small minutes he had in this book. At points particularly 100 to 150 pages in, is the deadest part of the book. At points it got convoluted due to how after chapters we were trying to understand another part of the plot. There is around 3 mains plots in this with two additional perspectives shown in this book. At times we were jumping from one story line to another and then going south for another. Honestly, this is a downgrade to his previous books, felt like too much was going on in this book that hindered the quality of the plot. Thanks to Netgalley and Random House for the advance review copy. If not it's still very much worth a read. If you're a Cross or Patterson fan you'll love it. Patterson rarely lets you down but I'd have preferred two (or even three) different books for the 3 strands. At times, the perpetrator was just one fluffy white cat away from Bond Villain. I liked both the CEO and Dead Hours parts of the story but the story involving the plane devolved, for me, several times into farce. There are appearances by Nana Mama, Jannie and Ali who are, as usual, making Alex's busy life bearable. Alex and Sampson are on the trail of the man they're calling the Dead Hours Killer when they are set to work trying to find whoever blasted a plane out of the sky and why.Īs always Patterson keeps the action fast-paced and introspection to a minimum. The book has three strands - the bringing down of a plane killing all its passengers, the disappearance of a CEO and the murders of several men by a killer who shoots our both eyes.īree is dealing with the missing CEO which then morphs into a different case entirely. It has been several years since I read an Alex Cross book but they were always a favourite so I was delighted to get this ARC.
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