I'm just waiting on goodreads to add another "shelf." The "this book was awful and I couldn't bring myself to finish it" shelf.

Woof.

This book was a big fat NOPE.

My one line review: Mr. Patterson, please keep writing with other people - other authors who care less about describing the buildings and more about the plot. Oh, and while you're at it...your romance scenes are straight out of a Calgon ad - do more learning. Yikes.

Eccoci qua con il nuovo romanzo che vede come protagonista il detective Alex Cross, famoso e seguito come Kay Scarpetta e Lyncoln Ryme, anzi mi chiedo come mai la dottoressa sopracitata sia ancora l'unica su cui non abbiano fatto un film... posso appellarmi al maschilismo imperante?
Comunque, un ennesimo giallo e un ennesimo momento per staccare dal delirio outside, questa campagna elettorale a oltranza mi sta annientando, ieri ho avuto un attacco di gastrite davanti a ballaro' e mi sono definitivamente convinta che d'alema è di destra e casini vuole diventare papa.
Il libro continua la saga del poliziotto (a cui non si sa bene per quale motivo hanno dato l'affidamento del figlio appena nato) che vanta tra i suoi nemici un personaggio che è l'incrocio tra il dottor Male di Austin Power, Hannibal Lector e Moriarty. In effetti il romanzo non è spettacolare, ma credo che sia la saga che mi attrae, mi piace tornare a leggere di vecchi personaggi, in qualche modo mi danno un senso di continuità.
Quindi se amate Alex compratevi il libro, altrimenti cominciate dal primo, che se non sbaglio dovrebbe essere "Il collezionista - un bacio alle ragazze", così imparerete ad apprezzarlo anche voi

Alex cross's last case. Yet another great book in the sequence


“ Keep your small mind open, ”said Nana, “That's if you ever want it to grow bigger, and don't want to remain a small person all your life.”



There's nothing like an attempt on your life to get you properly focused and to get the blood boiling.


Seems there was this man who lived in Southern California, around San Diego I believe it was. He had a family, nice family, and he worked very hard, long hours, lots of weekends. Sound familiar?”
“Probably familiar to a lot of people,” I said. “Men and women. Go ahead, though, Nana. This hardworking man with the extraordinarily nice family living outside San Diego. What happened to him?”
“Well anyway, this man had a kindly grandfather who adored both him and his family. He'd noticed that his grandson was working too hard, and he was the one who told him about the marbles. He told it this way. He said that the average life span for men was around seventy-five years. That meant thirty-nine hundred Saturdays to play when you were a kid, and to be with your family when you got older and wiser.”
“I see,” I said. “Or to play once you got older. Or even to give lectures to anyone who'll listen.”
“Shush, Alex. Now, listen. So the grandfather figured out that his grandson, who was forty-three, had about sixteen hundred and sixty Saturdays left in his life. Statistically speaking. So what he did was he bought two large jars and filled them with beautiful cat's-eye marbles. He gave them to his grandson. And he told him that every Saturday, he should take one marble out of the jar. Just one, and just as a reminder that he only had so many Saturdays left, and that they were precious beyond belief. Think about that, Alex. If you have the time,” said Nana.


Nana Mama always used to say, “Laugh before breakfast, cry before dinner.” If you raise a family, you know there's some truth to that, crazy as it sounds.


The road to hell,” she said. “Paved with good intentions.”

This one was ok but they are rather predictable.

All the Cross books are phenomenal. This one mixed war, violence, suspense, and mystery quite well. It makes me wonder whether there are any detectives in our world as good as the great Alex Cross.

I hope there are.

4.5 stars. Great way to finish up my reading goal for the year! Love these books and seem to forget all about how exciting they are until I finally read another.

I found this to be one of the more enjoyable Patterson books I've read of late and although there was nothing really ground breaking I did enjoy the story as we delved into the military world, uncovering a covert group commiting grotesque and mindless murder. I did find the parts that dealt with Cross's personal life a bit sickly sweet, especially his time with Jamilla, but thankfully these weren't a large part of the story. Overall a good holiday read.