hjjunior - reviewed on 6/18/2010

I'm less and less impressed with James Patterson's books. Maybe because this was a collaboration with another author, but this book stunk!

I kept hoping that it would get better, but I started to suspect credibility when the young widow and her family takes off on a sailing vacation (after the husband/father had died while sailing?). I also had a hard time believing that anyone can swim in a sailboat's engine compartment, or some of the other details that were getting harder and harder to swallow.

Like another reviewer stated, short (1 to 2 page) chapters seemed like the authors needed to stretch the number of pages needed to meet the editor's demand for a longer book. Extraneous story lines also seemed like they were added to 'fill out' the book, not make it more interesting.

Better writing for the last few chapters might have rescued this book for me, but I'm not sure I'll keep watch for another Patterson book.

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