Im currently working on the James Patterson Alex Cross series (I started in the middle because they didnt have the first couple of books I needed ~ But I dont think its a huge deal. You can jump in the middle of those books and know whats happening)
Violets Are Blue
This was a weird storyline. "Vampires" are murdering people and drinking their blood. Aside from that Alex Cross is battling "The Mastermind" and falling for a new love interest (Jamilla). It was a good story but drug a little in the middle. I have to say~ usually I am pretty good at figuring out who dunnit. I knew immediately who the Master Mind was but I didnt know who the Vampire Sire really was. That was the twist part for me. Even though I can usually figure it out - I still enjoy getting to the end to see if I were right.
It was an okay read ~ Not as good as some of the non series books he has written (POST CARD KILLERS is a FAVE as well as PRIVATE) and my first love of Mr. Patterson will remain The Women's Murder Club - but this series is pretty good.
FOUR BLIND MICE
This book moved faster for me than Violets are Blue. I liked that Sampson was a bigger Character in this storyline then the previous. I love Nanna Momma but Im still trying to figure out where Little Alex came from. I read the first two books but I guess that is something I am missing. I will have to go back into the older books in the series to find that out. It was a good story about military men who were in Vietnam setting up people to take the fall for murders they didnt committ. It was pretty good.
Big Bad Wolf
Here is the review from Publishers Weekly on Amazon.com
In a recent column in Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King cited Patterson's thrillers as the example of "dopey" bestsellers. We hope that doesn't mean that those who enjoy them are dopes, because this new one is vastly entertaining. Alex Cross, Patterson's black lawman hero, has left the D.C. police force for the FBI. But Cross was a star cop, so when the Bureau becomes aware that attractive white women are disappearing at an unusually high rate in the nation's capital, Cross, despite still being in training at Quantico, is brought onto the case and is personally mentored by the Bureau's director, earning the ire of some Feds but the support of others. Behind the disappearances is a sexual slavery operation run as a sideline by one of the more believable and most compellingly evil villains in the Patterson universe, the Wolf, a mysterious former KGB man who's now the world's top mobster. The narrative throughout is swift and varied, as Patterson cuts among the diabolical schemes of a Russian magnate who may be the Wolf, the plight of several kidnap victims, the dogged pursuit by Cross and company of the Wolf, and the hideous designs of the members of an encrypted computer chat room who pay the Wolf fortunes to snatch women who fit their fantasies. And there's domestic drama, too, as the mother of Cross's young son, Alex, decides that she wants her boy back. Full of plot surprises and featuring a balanced mix of intrigue, hard action and angst, the novel, on which Patterson notably does not share cover credit, grips from start to finish. The Alex Cross series remains Patterson's finest, and this is the finest Cross in years. Maybe we're dopes, but we're smiling ones.
Next on my list is the Stieg Larsen Girl with the dragon tattoo books. I need a break from Alex Cross.
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