Kiss the Girls

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Summary: Heart Stopping
Review: Captivating! A true page turner that keeps the audience guessing until the very end! The BEST of Patterson's work. Scares the daylights out of you. Highly recommended for highly intense people

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Summary: HORRIBLE
Review: THIS BOOK IS POORLY WRITTEN AND ONLY GIVES WOMEN CREDIT FOR BEING SEX SLAVES. A POOR EFFORT TO SAY THE LEAST

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Summary: SUSPENSE BUILDING, VERY VIVID AND GRIPPING
Review: THIS BOOK IS EXCITING FROM THE BEGINNING, THE STORY IS INTENSE THROUGHOUT AND YOU NEVER HAVE A CLUE OF WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT OR WHO REALLY IS INVOLVED. THE AUTHOR HAS THE POWER TO HOLD YOUR INTEREST AND MAKE YOU NOT PUT DOWN THE BOOK.

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Summary: A page turner
Review: Alex Cross is back in this excellent novel by James Patterson. The book takes hold of you until the very last page and drives you over the edge with its ending. If you liked his other books, this one will blow you away

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Summary: I could not put it down! So good I passed it on to friends!!
Review: I read all the time and this book took my breath away! It's one of those books that could be tomarrows headlines. It kept me on edge from the start to the end. In places you have to keep reading just so you do not have nightmares. I have loaned it to several friends and the reaction is always the same. You want forget it!

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Summary: Hard to put down . . .
Review: This is the first book I have read by James Patterson. I could barely put it down. It was excellent, full of action, suspence, and shocking revelations......Highly Recommended..

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Summary: Kiss the Girls
Review: I was surprised how weak this book was. It had a great start but fizzled soon there after. It seemed as if the author was trying to find ways to lenthen the story. There were so many holes. I wondered why the area where Kate emerged from her ordeal was not immediately and thoroghly searched. They eventually get to it late in the book. Also, when "The Gentleman" made his get away, why didn't the FBI just shoot the tires of his car? The author skirts around the identity of the villian so much that by the time he is reveal its like, "DUH!"

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Summary: Just didn't like it
Review: I read this book because of the reviews and I just loved Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas. However this book was just gross. If you like reading about rape and ideas such as forcing a snake up someones anus to widen it, then this book is for you.

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Summary: Improvement from the first book
Review: I might even go as far as to say three and a half stars, as this work is a bit better than the previous one, Along Came A Spider. However, as popular as Patterson may be, he still writes in such a mediocre way which is overcome by the fact that he nails down interesting stories and keeps the action going.

This book, like the first Alex Cross offering, is over the top in concept, much of the stuff here could never happen (or at least should never happen assuming the cops and FBI aren't filled with totally incompetent people). One of the things that Patterson keeps doing, here and in other works, is that he creates false tension and suspense by having the characters do stuff that is so unbelievably stupid, it's hard not to let it ruin the story. Think for a moment, you're a woman that's just survived a brutal kidnapping and rape from your home, by an intelligent and resourceful killer, who knows where you live. Now, after leaving the hospital you insist on going home and staying there, unprotected. That and the FBI and local police, who know the killer would like to see you dead (after all they did guard you at the hospital-you're a potential witness) don't bother to stake out your home, leaving you at the mercy of the killer. Yeah, okay, that's believable, I guess, if you're fourteen or something.

One other huge impossibility, and this happens in the prologue, so this is hardly a spoiler or anything, the young killer, future antagonist in our story is hiding in a house watching them, waiting to kill. He's hiding, get this, in the ducting system. Apparently Patterson has watched too many stupid heist movies, because, if you'll glance up from the computer as you read this, and look at the air register in the room you're in, you'll notice that it would be physically impossible for a six foot tall man to climb out of it and murder you. In fact, it would be impossible for a child to crawl out of it. I realize that in the movies, the bad guys are always crawling around in ducts, but, those are usually in commercial buildings, like banks or something, and, the bad guy isn't seen removing a grill from inside the duct and climbing out into a bedroom. A bedroom never has a duct with a two foot wide diameter opening, no bedroom would ever need that much air, it isn't just silly, it's beyond belief.

The problem with these little factual problems is that they destroy the credability of the rest of the story. We the readers have to assume that the information about stuff we know nothing about is accurate, but how can we when there are such major errors in stuff we do know something about?

In any case, the fast paced action and general readability of the work make it an above average thriller, so for those that like this kind of stuff, I still recommend it.

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Summary: Nascar Fast
Review: First time reading James Patterson. I'm glad I picked the book up. Although, I read it out of sequence (This is Book 2 in the series). The pace of the book is excellent. The first page had me hooked. This book is Nascar Fast. The action is quick and smooth. If that's the type of book you like, then this one's for you.
James Patterson never over does it with the description or the use of language. Smooth Storyline. He had me guessing who the killer was, the whole way through. So all in all, I give it five stars. It definitely delivers.