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Summary: Gripping for much of the time, but flawed
Review: What was, on the whole, an exciting and fast-paced book, was spoiled for me by obvious flaws. For example, rape/kidnapping victim Kate McTiernan's insistence (with street-wise detective Alex Cross's acquiesecence) on remaining at home alone after her escape from the "house of horrors"...knowing that the "human monster" who imprisoned, abused and nearly killed her is still on the loose...and close by! This is just one of many instances where the reader has to suspend credulity to stick with the book. A great shame, too, because these pitfalls could have all been avoided if Patterson had just considered the events in the context of the real world. Nevertheless, worth a read.
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Summary: See Movie
Review: I agree with the other review of this book. I saw the movie and really enjoyed it. So I picked up the book. I found the book very disturbing, and not in a fun way. I found it degraded the women characters in a way I have rarely seen. As a woman, it was so uncomfortable to read I wanted to put a warning here.
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Summary: Sadly Disappointing...
Review: This book becomes more and more displeasing the more I think about it - an unfortunate outcome for any story. Not to sound like a Spice "Girl", but "Kiss" is truly degrading to women. A lonely-hearts sociopath who calls himself Casanova is kidnapping gorgeous, intelligent young femmes from the Research Triangle in Durham, North Carolina, and forming a private harem. His "guests" are killed and abandoned in the woods if they break his rules. I'm not a psychologist, but even I know that serial killers tend to select and then prey on one type of victim. Why would a villain who's been grabbing relatively helpless coeds in their late teens suddenly go after a kick-boxing doctor in her early 30s? Why, to introduce Dr. Kate McTiernan, his latest conquest, of course. She's beautiful enough to turn men's heads, but charmingly klutzy enough to bang into stair railings. She's brilliant enough to excel as a young surgeon, but hip enough to wear a Mickey Mouse watch. And after being zapped with a stun gun and pumped full of enough dope to space out a Grateful Dead concert, she's coherent enough to methodically run through a list of drugs that Casanova could have given her based on the side effects she's suffering. Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's SuperDoc! Like kidnapping her isn't bad enough, Casanova also insults Kate by trying to con her into thinking that if she behaves, he'll let her go. Please. If she were stupid enough to believe that, he never would have picked her in the first place. His "high standards" would not have allowed it.
"Kiss the Girls" also includes a brutal rape scene that turned my stomach. Sometimes I can cope with the depiction of rape in stories because I like to see the criminals get their punishment in the end, but this was OTT. Upon her daring escape, the book has Kate - a recovering civilian - jump straight from the hospital into a sting operation to catch the creep with Cross. Has she forgotten the horrific rape and beatings she's endured? Are we supposed to? And are we likewise supposed to cheer on Alex Cross, a psychologist and police officer who is "sensitive" enough to cry over the death of a child and kiss his male friend but fails to even mention the possibility that Kate might benefit from counseling? Oops. Silly me - I forgot that Kate has superhuman strength.... The ONLY realistic aspect of this story is the hard fact that even if Cross and his cronies manage to snare Casanova, they need to tread lightly. If he's killed or incapacitated before they discover his secret lair, his victims - including Cross's niece - will starve to death. Sadly, this is the only drop of dew in a lonely, barren wasteland. I also have a bone to pick with the prose in "Kiss" - namely the way its characters think and make profound discoveries all in italics. Like Agatha Christie. Patterson might be a best-selling author, but he is no Agatha Christie. If the storyline itself interests you, please do yourself a favor and watch the atmospheric, stylish film, starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, instead.
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Summary: Can't put down this book from the first page...
Review: This book was my first Patterson book. Strongly recommended...
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Summary: A captivating Read
Review: Kiss the Girls is on of the best books I have read in the recent past. The book is fast paced and Patterson managed to get me so involved in te book that I was worried sick about the fate of Alex Cross's niece. I was impressed with the quick pace and the fact that I breezed through the novel within one day. Also Patterson managed to lead me on as to who the perpetrators were and had me fooled almost to the end. This is one of Patterson's best books. Unfortunatley he has run out of steam somewhat on the Alex Cross series. The later books in the series are not that good.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: I read maybe one or two books a year. I picked this one up at the airport as I was leaving for spring break. 2 days later i was finished. The next day i went out and picked up two more of his novles and I was equally pleased. 3 novels in 1 week from someone who reads MAYBE 2 a year; that alone speaks for itself.
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Summary: Riveting (Not for the timid)
Review: Couldn't put it down. Very intriguing & creepy. Very fast-paced -- most "chapters" are 2 pages or so. Really keeps you guessing with twists, turns, & more than 1 storyline. I wouldn't recommend it to women living alone though -- too scary.
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Summary: Great Thriller!
Review: Of all the Patterson books I have read so far, this is my favorite...the suspense just builds and builds, with vintage Patterson twists
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Summary: Another great thriller
Review: This is, very possibly, even better than Along Came A Spider, which was really excellent. This one is even more chilling, even more of a pageturner. This time there is double the trouble, with two killing operating on different sides of the United States. But the really disturbing thing is...they appear to be competing with each other... From the opening pages right to the end this book is a great thriller, perhaps one of the best i have ever read. Patterson develops Cross further, and does it very well. He develops his characters nicely, giving the villains especially a chillingly logical edge. That was one thing with which Patterson used to excell. The excellence and brilliance of his villains. This book demonstrates that. Unfortunately, with his latest few books, he seems to have lost it. I hope he regains it soon. I love the double strands of this plot, and the plots running parrallel, and the many twists and turns which Patterson packs in. Cross's relationship with Kate McTiernan is touching, and she is a very good more-than-capable-of-looking-after-herself character. Another first rate-thriller from James Patterson.
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Summary: Personally my favorite
Review: This is personally my favorite James Patterson Book. Maybe that is just because I read this one first. I highly recommend.
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