The 6th Target: The Women's Murder Club
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
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Author: James Patterson, Maxine PaetroEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-08
ISBN: 0316014796
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Book Review: "You have to do more than you ever thought you could do"
Summary: 2 Stars
The authors clearly did not do more than they could do in this case. Or maybe they tried so hard to overachieve that they got lost on the way. In this installment of the Women's Murder Club we get a plot that has many parts, with feeble connections and way too many "coincidences" for my taste. You feel that Patterson and Paetro tried so hard to create a multi-layered story that they ended up forcing it and lost the cohesiveness in the process.
A killer goes rampage on a ferry and starts shooting people. Claire Washburn is one of the victims of the shooting. And as most of you know, this is not the first time that Paterson et al use the theme of a member of the club fighting for her life, to try to catch our eye. Now, we are waiting to see if Claire, the medical examiner, will survive the attack or if there will be another loss for the "team". Lindsay Boxer wants to work the case, even though she is not supposed to, now that she is a lieutenant.
In typical Patterson style, the book starts at a fast pace, but sadly not even this can help in this one. The story loses focus quickly and we are left in limbo, navigating a set of different cases and trying to understand how these things are connected. To make matters even worse, there is very little character development. And the little we get is pretty bad. The love scenes are so lousy and unreal that I could not help wonder how much effort was actually put into them.
This is the first book in this series that I did not enjoy, but it has not been my first disappointment with Patterson. Lately it seems that it is like playing Russian roulette. The odds of getting a good book are still better than the ones of getting a bad one, but when the latter happens it is really disappointing. The author has to find a way to stop this trend, or the fans will start to run away. Maybe it is time to slow down the pace of publication and focus a little more on quality control!
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