I have been a fan of James Patterson and the Alex Cross series for a long time. I loved the book Cross but this book was really bad. I started this book in January 2009 and I still can't bring myself to finish it . ( )

I guess has to have Patterson is out of ideas that he brings back The Mastermind, Kyle Craig, into the party. I just hope the next book is worth the wait. ( )

OH JUST DOUBLE KILL ME!

The book was so predictable it wasn't funny. Within chapters I knew who the killers were and what was gonna happen next. The ending was just sooo blah.

But the one thing that burned my biscuits was all the sex talk. Now ya'll know I'm no prude (come on, this is the lady who put up a picture of a cow nursing and some ones mucus plug!) but the sex talk was driving me crazy!

Every darn chapter it was, "I'm horny" or "Right there I was turned on" Then the "sex" was lame. You know the whole darn, I was inside her and then an explosion of lust type of deal.

I'm not asking for all the goodie details but for as much as they talked about being so darn "horny" I expected a full on erotica seen with 70's porn music to go with it!

Nothing...

It was just a bit too much, you know, all the serial killers on their rears, targeting them and their families. Then all the 24 hour working and late nights, dragon breath, chasing bad guys, dead people around and all these two talk about is sex and being horny and getting it on.

For crying out loud, 3 killers after you and you can't take your rear home to be with your children and their grandma? You got to get a all night groove on in some hotel?

Please...

I was starting to wonder how "brilliant" these detectives really were and in the end, I was siding with the bad guys...Dumb cops. ( )

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I read this book after Cross Country, and found it to be about 10x better. This book was the quintessential vacation page-turner; I think there were something like 126 chapters in 300 pages. Patterson sets the scene as a series of gruesome public murders take place, supposedly by the same man each time. The story also follows another subplot with the escape of Kyle Craig from a maximum security complex. The new serial killer supposedly worships Craig as a god amongst killers. Able to read this book in one day, I found that Patterson's ability to jump to about ten different places, follow ten main characters, and chronicle about fifteen gruesome murders was incredible. And while this wasn't made to be quality, analytical high-brow literature, it's entertaining and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a fun read.