The Quickie (2007)

I couldn't put it down. Lauren Stillwell thought that her husband Paul was having an affair. Then thangs keep getting worse the more the days went on. ( )

Nice twisty plot and well read book on CD. ( )

"A kind of pleading in his almond-shaped brown eyes"

Oh wow is this book awful. Someone took a cliché dictionary out of the library, cobbled every entry together into something like a cop thriller, and put a famous name on the front cover.

The protagonist, Lauren, is a hypocritical adulterous whiner who has an affair... to teach her cheating husband a lesson. Um... ironic, much? So when this revenge turns out to be full of salmonella and gunshot rather than being served cold, it's pretty tough to have any sympathy for her.

Oh, but never mind the conflict of interest in the upcoming prosecution case, she's the best, she's going to take it... "Bronx assistant DAs practically fought to take my cases because they could just about read my reports aloud for their prosecutions". For someone who's so bullish about her own abilities, she uses a whole lotta qualifiers in that sentence.

Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. I promise never to open another novel bearing the James Patterson brand as long as I live. For my penance, I agree to rid my shelves of this rot.

(seriously, it's too bad even for BookMooch. I'm going to leave them on the Tube.)

Although this book has been out for awhile, I just read it. Great book! Just when one thing happens, I am surprized by something else. Surprizes around every corner! I love it when that happens! ( )

Not one of Pattersons best. It was like it was thrown together to beat a deadline. ( )