2nd Chance/Unabridged

Rating:
Summary: My 1st Chance on Patterson
Review: I can't tell a lie - this is my FIRST EVER James Patterson novel - at least as far back as my increasingly unreliable memory serves me.

It definitely had me turning the pages as fast as I could, with an intriguing story about Lt. Boxer, her girlfriends and their current bad guy, Chimera. It was fairly obvious from early in the book that one of the characters was hiding something, but the "something" wasn't really as spell-bindingly shocking as I had hoped. The plot was well thought out, and painstakingly unraveled, something like your favorite episode of Law and Order

Patterson takes pains to show the strengths of his four stars, but then even more painstakingly, he ensures that he gives each one a little weakness here and there, just to level the playing field for the other characters. This is most obvious with the Asst. D. A., whose problem could have been left out without affecting the story in the slightest.

Anyway, you have to feel the love for a strong willed woman surviving in a typically male-oriented environment, and I was totally into the Lindsay Boxer character, even when, towards the end of the book, she squeezed the trigger of her Beretta while cupping both her ears with her hands.

A great book to while away some spare time, especially in an airplane, dentist's office or other equally time consuming experience.

Amanda Richards, November 7, 2004


Rating:
Summary: A Good Story About Four Strong and Capable Women
Review: I have not read the first book in this series of the Murder Club, but I enjoyed this second story. I will now make up for lost time and read the first book. I listened to this book on tape, and I found that it was very exciting and kept my interest throughout. The readings by Melissa Leo and Jeremy Piven were very well done. I felt like I was listenting to a play somewhat. In this book Lindsey and her pals in her unofficial murder club are after a real bad guy. Two of Lindsey's pals are actually targetted by the guy, and it's a race against time before he actually succeeds in getting one of her friends, or Lindsey herself. I found it hard to believe, while I was listening to this story, that the book was written by a man. I think James Patterson does more than a credible job with his Women's Murder Club thrillers about four very strong women. I can hardly wait to read the first book.