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Summary: Painful
Review: The plot is predictable and the storytelling lame. Do not waste your money on this book.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: This what the first James Patterson book that I have read. I became interested in his work after seeing the tv made movie for his book "1st to Die." This book followed the same fast paced suspense presented in the movie.Join the girls as they try to track down a serial killer before his next strikes. Things get a little close to home as they start to become victims! Some people say that this book was predictable. While in some aspects it was predictable it was still full of surprises, so it was not a total give away. I like a mystery in which I can speculate "who done it" and this book gives that opportunity.
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Summary: Rad the plot, not the mistakes
Review: Although not as well written as 1st to Die, this was a good book. While there were some mistakes, they did not detract from the plot as a while. Anyone who is used to reading mysteries knows there is always a twist. While the twist here was given away a little early, it was still interesting to find out how everything turned out.
I am looking forward to reading the next installment for the Women's Murder Club.
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Summary: Serial killer, racial motives and a link to the police force
Review: This is the second book in the Lindsay Boxer series. Lindsay and her Women's Murder Club, a group of friends, find them selves dealing with what appears to be a serial murder that is racially motivated. The missing link turns out to be a mysterious connection to the police department, which opens up horrible possibilites. As they look into this series of murders, the situation seems to be spiraling out of control when the murderer targets one of them. Then Lindsay's missing father appears at a most inopportune time for Lindsay and she leans on her friends for support. The characters are fun, yet not quite fully fleshed out and some of their actions seem not quite what you would expect from educated, successful, professional women. This was a good story that brings back some interesting women with a lot of potential for future stories .
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Summary: 2nd Chance
Review: To me it was simple writing, but this was my first James Patterson novel that a friend gave to me for my birthday. At first I thought that this was going to be just another mystery which you think that this person is the killer.
No that was not the case with this book, at first I got pissed because his chapters were only three pages long at the most, I was used to reading like 50 page chapters from the likes of Stephen King and Tom Clancy.
But 2nd Chance was a good novel, not great, but it was good.
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Summary: Pat took his chance, well!
Review: I was beginning to doubt James Patterson was ever going to produce novels as good as Kiss the Girls, or Pop goes the Weasel. Four Blind Mice was almost ludicrous, and Roses are Red and Violets are Blue only barely made the cut. I didn't read 1st to Die before this, since it got sold out. So I picked up 2nd Chance and read. Finally, Mr. Patterson has hit the winning formula! Although, at a far glance, this book is horribly simple. No shocking turns or plot twists, just raw action. Luckily, the predictability didn't spoil the novel too much. Although I was rather dissapointed with the ending scene of Lindsay and Coombs, it was a pretty snappy read. Pick it up if you like crime novels, this is a pretty good one. Lavaix
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Summary: fantabulous
Review: This book is amazing. I picked it up one night, housesitting, and could not put it down. I finished it in one sitting. Every time I thought I had the ending figured out, something would happen. There were millions of unexpected twists and turns. Despite some things another reviewer noticed as far as minute details which were wrong, the book was amazing.
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Summary: Someone shoot the editor!
Review: I was cringing while reading this. The dedication is to a physician (one must assume a medical examiner) and, were I in her shoes, I'd ask to be removed from the dedication. The medical examiner in the book states that she did a residency in dermpath. Nope. No can do. There is no residency in DERMpath, only a one year fellowship following a four (or five) year straight pathology residency. (And the ME doesn't even mention her forensic fellowship.) Secondly, Lindsay and the medical examiner refer to a person as being hung (suicide, folks). Pictures are hung, people are hanged. How much did they pay this editor for not doing his/her job...??? It's insulting to the reader.
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Summary: Very good but not the best
Review: I am an advid reader of Patterson's Alex Cross series and have read "1st to Die" and was excited to read this second in the women murder club. It kept my intrest with the twists and turns, but Patterson needs to get some of his facts straight(ie a Glock handgun doesn't have a safety on the side but on the trigger). A litte more research and I think Patterson would have his readers critizing him for misinformation. However I still love to read his work, and wil continue to read his work.
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Summary: Reheated leftovers... And who said that?
Review: While reading 2ND CHANCE, one could get the feeling, "I've read this before." Its title seems oddly appropriate, as if James Patterson was hoping to rework a few of his tales with old literary tools. 2ND CHANCE reads like reheated leftovers - and not the kind that get better the 2nd time around. The pattern of plot and character development is very akin to his tried and true formula (and nearly identical to FOUR BLIND MICE), which left this reader wishing Patterson had shuffled his plot deck at least a little. The story itself is mildly interesting, but there's nothing here you haven't read before, or seen in any run of the mill renegade-killer-suspense movie. This could have been salvaged if there had been interesting prose, location descriptions, or dialogue, but that too, is sorely lacking. The martini-clatch of crime solving heroines hold immense, but sadly untapped potential. They could all be largely interchangeable, as if there were four highly successful female clones having a conversation at a bar with the same voice. There are times when all four ladies are present in a scene, and if Patterson doesn't say "so-and-so said", you wouldn't have the foggiest idea who was talking. Patterson's character development comes more in the form of what's happening to the characters (ie: getting pregnant), rather than what drives the characters to do what they do. I did not feel endeared to any of the heorines, therefore I found it very difficult to care much about them. (I really didn't like that even though one of the group is pregnant, they still insist on meeting regularly in some bar. Weak attempt at a near-beer scene aside, either Patterson doesn't understand women, or he's deliberately making them look insanely irresponsible. Either way, it didn't work for me.) Similarly, the villian is somewhat interesting, but like the rest of this book, is far from compelling or gripping. I would not recommend 2ND CHANCE as your introduction to the work of James Patterson.
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