Goodreads Summary
✥Series: #1
✥Release Date: March 5, 2001
✥Format: Mass Market Paperback
✥Setting: San Francisco, CA
✥Page Count:462
✥Genre(s): Mystery, [Adult] Fiction
✥Date(s) Read: [Finished]
✥Rating: Book: 4.5/5 Audio: 4.5/5 Narrator(s): Suzanne Toren
My Thoughts:
Audio:
I enjoyed listening to her. She made a good book that much better. She sometimes made female voices a bit deeper than maybe they should have been but heck, I'm not part of the recording team, so, I don't know how they may have wanted it.
Book:
I wasn't quite sure what I would think about this book when I first started it. I liked it from the beginning but still was iffy about it. I had to put it down a few times because I either wasn't feeling it at the time and/or could barely hear the audio when I tried to listen in public. When I picked it up this time though, I had better headphones and didn't want to stop listening.
I loved the friendships and love interest. Just enough romance to satisfy me (and I am one that doesn't mind romance in mysteries/thrillers) but it wasn't the whole book. There wasn't too much angst. It's main focus was the case and a bit of the main characters life (all of the above mixed in well).
I wasn't quite sure about the main character at the start of the book but I grew to really like her as it went on. Someone though, had a fascination with soft hands in this book! lol....All the twists, what I thought the twist was going to be, wasn't exactly what I thought it would be! I was close but yet, still not quite there! That's all I can say other than, I loved it!
Short chapters (majority of them and even the longer ones weren't too long) in typical James Patterson format. Although this is my first adult mystery by James Patterson, I have known him to have short chapters and have heard others say it as well. The first books I read from him were from the Confessions Series (young adult). That is what made me want to try his adult series but wasn't sure what I wanted to try first. I picked up others but wasn't feeling it at the time. Grateful I found this one in my local used book store, Julia's Cafe & Books (I love this little place!).
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