Kiss the Girls

I am not going to read another Patterson any more. After having read several in the past, this one was the last straw. I had bought this one only since I had seen the movie starring Morgan Freeman before. Patterson has this nasty habit of using his author's license and changing the identity of the unknown killer in the very last pages of the book. Prior to that he tantalisingly leads your...more

I am not going to read another Patterson any more. After having read several in the past, this one was the last straw. I had bought this one only since I had seen the movie starring Morgan Freeman before. Patterson has this nasty habit of using his author's license and changing the identity of the unknown killer in the very last pages of the book. Prior to that he tantalisingly leads your around to make your own choices. And you can do that using the logic found in the novel. Yet at the end he tosses all that out and selects one of the characters in the book at random. David Baldacci also uses the same trick, and for that reason I have stopped reading him too. You might get shocked at first when you find out the killer is say the mousy house wife, or the police chief, or the US President;-) But when you put the book down and think over you will find several untied ends! Also Kiss the Girls has huge similarities with another book her wrote subsequently! (Mary, Mary) I don't like that either. I am no writer, but if I write books I will see that they are not photocopies!   hide

I read several other of the Cross books before I read this one, which is the first Cross. It was interesting that this one seemed to focus more on the fact that Cross is a black, while in the other books I never realized why Patterson had made Cross black. Any how, this book has a great villain who leaves you guessing the entire book on his mental state. The main bad guy was a great antagonist...more

I read several other of the Cross books before I read this one, which is the first Cross. It was interesting that this one seemed to focus more on the fact that Cross is a black, while in the other books I never realized why Patterson had made Cross black. Any how, this book has a great villain who leaves you guessing the entire book on his mental state. The main bad guy was a great antagonist to Cross, but I had trouble believing he could be outsmarted so easily by the Secret Service. Still a great, fast read that was hard to put down. The movie is basically 5% based on the book, which was disappointing.   hide

This one was bad. Bad production with soundeffects that really annoyed me and did nothing to enhance this dull thriller. There is nothing special in the plot, but standard serial killer things. It didn't thrill me and I just finished it cause I did want to know if there maybe was a surprise at the end that I didn't expect. There wasn't.

Pretty average read with good characters and development. The suspense isn't what I was expecting as I felt it only came in small doses.Overall pretty solid read.