{"id":113,"date":"2010-06-08T11:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T11:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2010\/06\/08\/5th-horseman-alwr\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T04:46:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T04:46:53","slug":"5th-horseman-alwr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2010\/06\/08\/5th-horseman-alwr\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Horseman – ALWR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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James Patterson is a publisher’s dream. He produces two hugely popular mystery\/thriller series that routinely hit the bestseller lists. Patterson is so popular that he needs co-authors to help push out the pulp that his readers demand. He even makes appearances on Castle.<\/p>\n

5th Horsman is the fifth (how appropriate) installment in his Women’s Murder Club series. It finds our four female protagonists dealing with three concurrent cases; a hospital malpractice suit, a murder spree in the same hospital and a series of deaths of young escorts.<\/p>\n

And that is the problem with this book. There is too much going on. By packing more action than a Bruckheimer movie into 410 pages, Patterson (and co-author Maxine Paetro) sacrifices things like character development. It would have been a far better book if we had only had the hospital malpractice\/hospital murder plot and they left the escort murders for another book.<\/p>\n

That being said, this book is a very quick read. With chapters lasting three or four pages at most, a strong reader can plow through this book in less than a day. Not high literature, but a fun way to spend a few hours,most likely on a beach or beside a pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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