This was the dullest Patterson I've ever read. I didn't care about the characters and there was very little action. If this was written by someone else (and it surely was), I might give two stars for having the tenacity to finish writing it. It feels like JP didn't even read this, much less write it.
1 star.
Audio. 6.5 hours.
Read by the author.
Collection of essays, standard DS.
4 stars.
Audio. 11.25 hours.
Read by Karissa Vacker.
Naomi and her two friends love playing in the woods until Naomi is attacked and stabbed 17 times. Somehow, she lives and in coached into testifying against the man her friends say attacked her. Twenty two years later, when the man she helped convict dies in prison, her doubts about her testimony lead her back to her home town to try to uncover the real truth.
4 stars.
Three children are attacked in the woods, and only two survive. The trauma of the attack affects their lives in different way.
This book was such a slog. So much narrative and so little action. I usually like Lisa Unger.
2.5 stars.
TJ Devlin is the black sheep of his family of lawyers, until he's not.
4 stars.
Handsome high school English teacher preys on female students. Wife finds out and threatens to expose him.
4 stars.
Three young girls bond in foster care while in the home of an abusive woman.
5 stars.
Audio. Downloadable audio book that returned itself before I recorded the length. About 8-10 hours.
Read by Rory Kinnear.
Latest Hawthorne novel. Due to a deadline nearing, Anthony must write about a case Hawthorne solved years ago. Hawthorne is reluctant to release info and only does so in chunks, not even giving Anthony the solution until the end. So the novel is not told exclusively in the first person, like the previous in the series.
4 stars.
An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient's past. Also, there's a rapist on the loose in her neighborhood.
This had a really good twist midway that I did not see coming. Things that felt overly hammered home: the criminal in the neighborhood, the L train outside the apartment.
3.5 stars.
Audio. 12 cds.
Read by Robert Bathurst.
Professor Abigail Robinson, a statistician, is contracted by the Canadian government to study the death toll of the pandemic. After doing so, she promotes the theory that resources should not be "wasted" on the sick or elderly. She begins advocating for mandatory abortions and euthanasia. And some people don't like it. Chief Inspector Gamache is tasked with protecting the professor during a local talk and saves her when someone takes a shot at her. Later, her assistant is killed, but was the professor the actual target.
I liked this, despite the French phrases which would probably be less intrusive in the written novel. I almost gave up immediately, but I'm glad I stuck with it.
4 stars.
