The plot is brilliant and keeps you captive page after page. Alex cross has had me hooked since book 1. I know it's what makes him so appealing to a global diaspora.

Violets are blue may not be riveting in intensity, suspense and action, but it was far from mediocre. James patterson carries on gracefully in this way.

There is nothing that links the murders together save the bite marks at the victims's necks. You never get the feeling of tension and fear that comes when you know another * is going to be committed. They bite people to death and hang their bodies fro...  Read More

This book reads more like an outline for a movie than an actual novel. The sentence structure reads like something out of a see spot run book and the storytelling isn't much better. The author muddies up the careful work that has gone before, and in t...  Read More

Violets are blue is a terrible book. It has two distinct storylines that do not significantly intersect or complement one another. Patterson fails to live up to expectation.

The mastermind just does whatever he wants, never an explanation of how, or why people don't catch him. Not a chapter after complaining about a particular home appliance and commenting on how he doesn't have one, cross uses that very thing to get the ...  Read More