Six books into the Alex Cross series and things are not improving. Cross is as whiny as ever and I’m seriously getting tired of his voice. More, it’s been ages since I saw the movie versions of the first two books and therefore I no longer hear Morgan Freeman’s voice in my head when reading Alex Cross, which is a shame, as it gave some cache to the character. I mean let’s face it Morgan Freeman could make even dirt sound interesting, if dirt suddenly started talking. Without Freeman’s dulcet tones, Cross just ends up sounding wimpy, whiny, and weak. How’s that for alliteration? J
In Roses are Red, James Patterson gives us another great villain in The Mastermind, a bank robber turned murderer who has Cross and the FBI running in circles trying to catch him. It’s a great little mystery, and is patented Patterson, the stuff that keeps me reading. The problem for me with these books is that I don’t find Cross all that likeable anymore. He can never seem to get his life in order and stumbles from relationship to relationship while dealing with one orchestrated family drama after another. This time, his little girl Jannie develops a non-cancerous brain tumor while fiancée Christine can’t overcome the kidnapping incident and is hightailing it out of his life pronto. Good thing Special Agent Betsy Cavallierre of the FBI is waiting in the wings…. Yeah, okay, whatever. Can we get back to The Mastermind now? He’s far more interesting.
Too bad Patterson doesn’t focus his attention on the crimes and villains of these books as much as he does Cross. The novels would be so much better.
Till next time, happy reading!
L J
| TBR = 15 | WPL = 25 |
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