FICTION
Released: Nov. 13, 2006
"The biggest disappointment, though, is an ending that makes you realize you should have skipped this installment and waited for the sequel."
Dr. Alex Cross goes up against the psychopath who killed his wife, with eminently predictable results.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 14, 2005
"Certainly not the worst of Patterson's clueless mysteries, but still another likely candidate to be filmed as "a big, dopey thriller based on a dopey bestseller." "
Superstar psychologist Alex Cross's quality time with his kids is interrupted by…another serial killer!
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 11, 2005
"Speed, suspense, excitement. (Science fiction. YA)"
FICTION
Released: Nov. 5, 2003
"As in summer movies, a triple dose of violence conceals the absence of real menace when neither victims nor avengers stir the slightest sympathy."
Dr. Alex Cross has left Metro DC Homicide for the FBI, but it's business as usual in this laughably rough-hewn fairy tale of modern-day white slavery.
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FICTION
Released: June 9, 2003
"Patterson's sensibility dovetails perfectly with that of his prodigies, whose tender feelings and pitch-perfect teenage dialogue are the best things here. It's only when human grownups have to talk and act that this overblown saga sags."
This sequel to Patterson's bestselling, and best, novel (
When the Wind Blows, 1998) soars, like its appealing cast, only intermittently.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 18, 2002
"Short chapters, paragraphs, and sentences; stilted dialogue; facile plotting; a few feeble passes at description: a Patterson blue-plate special."
Schematic and pedestrian, Patterson's latest (after
The Beach House, p. 519) pits Alex Cross against a trio of serial killers.
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