2024 the best james patterson books review

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Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire.

Not even Emmy's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, will believe her that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all connected. That is, until Emmy finds a piece of evidence he can't afford to ignore. More murders are reported by the day—and they're all inexplicable. No motives, no murder weapons, no suspects. Could one person really be responsible for these unthinkable crimes?

Invisible is James Patterson's scariest, most chilling stand-alone thriller yet.

Reviewer: Guy Wheatley
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Six out of Five stars.
Review: Six out of Five stars.I know, you can only give five stars. but this is easily a star better than several books I’ve review that deserved five stars. And lest you think I’m simply a hopeless Patterson fanboy, I only gave four stars to the last book of his I reviewed.What he did right:First of all, a great story and plot. This is a thriller and it was thrilling.Second, he succeeds where he fail once before. He’s writing first person singular (FPS) as a female. That is a tall order for a male writer. In my humble opinion, he pulls it off in this endeavor.In the last Patterson book I read, I dinged him a star because in an FPS narrative, he simply jumped, willy nilly, to a Third Party Omnipotent (TPO) narrative. I found that distracting, and frankly cheating. If you write FPS, then you can only tell the reader about things the narrator knows. Andy Weir pulled off a loop hole with the artifact of a journal kept by one of his characters. Half of the book is TPO, while the other half allows us to experience the personal hopes and fears of the journal writer. (FPS)In this book, Patterson uses a similar artifact in the “Graham sessions.” Not only does he use this to effectively tell us things the the protagonist doesn’t know, he uses it for another purpose. I won’t spoil it in this review, but I will shout from the roof tops that it is pure genius.The story takes turns that I’d like to say are surprising, but four chapter from the end I had an idea of where the end was going. Two chapter out I was convinced. Even though I had the ending figured out, it was still an enjoyable read, because I wasn’t sure. I felt validated when we got to the end. — — —Emmy is an FBI annalist. She’s good, but the death of her sister seems to have derailed her. Around the same time her boss retaliates against her because she rejected his inappropriate sexual advances. Now she is desperate to find and stop the killer she believes is responsible for her sister’s death. The killer is brilliant and the powers that be have declared the incidents as accidents. They are not thrilled at the prospect of the embarrassment when the truth comes out.This broken woman desperately tries to protect the public and get justice for her sister. She turns to an old colleague/lover for help. The end takes a surprising twist that will keep the reader on his toes right up til the last page. This is one of those books that will keep you up past your bedtime, promising “just one more chapter.”

Reviewer: Tom Culbertson
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great read!
Review: I reserve five stars for exceptional reads, but this book came close. The hideous crimes, the one step behind investigators, the ingenious "solving" solution, followed by the unforeseen conclusion left me wishing for another hundred pages.

Reviewer: Gayle
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A rare gem
Review: I love this book. It's one of Patterson older books. But it's like how he just to write his book. I think his newest book are thin in the plot and characters development. This book has alot of twist, turns and will have you reading way late into the night. You will find yourself saying "just one more page". It's that good

Reviewer: Elizabeth M.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent book!
Review: It is one of James Patterson's many excellent thrillers. It was definitely a roller coaster ride! Read it! It's great!

Reviewer: M. McB.
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good read
Review: Most people rate this higher so please see my ranking rules below.This was my first James Patterson book. It was a good read, I liked the characters and it kept me engaged and guessing. If you are not already a Patterson fan this book will probably make pick up another.My ranking rules:5-star (*****) EXCEPTIONAL: Faultless; awe-inspiring; humbling; a good ambassador for the genre, deserving broad readership; potentially a classic of the genre.4-star (****) EXCELLENT: Highly recommended; difficult to fault; completely satisfying.3-star (***) GOOD: A really good read and thoroughly enjoyable; time well spent; minor and few misgivings.2-star (**) OK: Unlikely to inspire or to offend; ultimately doesn't measure up to the broader body of work in the genre, and therefore may disappoint.1-star (*) POOR: Life-shortening, ineffective, rife with error and a waste of ink (whether on physical- or e-paper).

Reviewer: Tiffany
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Caught off guard
Review: Sensitivity warning: detailed descriptions of torture (though it doesn’t happen throughout the book, and the crimes aren’t sexual in nature). Also, general descriptions of blood and gore for a couple chapters toward the end.This novel is very frustrating for over a quarter of the book. The reader knows the protagonist, Emmy, is right about they’re being a killer because there are chapters from the killer’s perspective detailing the names of a few victims. However, Emmy only has meager circumstantial evidence. With that, Emmy comes off to everyone as a dog with a bone who needs to let it go. Her sanity is questioned by all, including her ex-fiancé Books. Emmy has a personal stake in the matter because her twin, Marta, was killed by a fire that Emmy thinks was suspicious. To make matters worse, Emmy has to deal with the pompous assistant director, Julius Dickinson (whom she calls “The Dick”). Between 35 to 50% (kindle count) I started picking up the pace of my reading. By halfway through, I felt fully invested.As a side note, Emmy is freaking smart. She’s also a character that has more to her than just solving this crime. She’s witty (with a flair for dry humor), self-deprecating, and more than a bit socially awkward. Most of the focus is on Emmy, with her support team, members of the FBI, her mother, and Books figuring in primarily as how they affect Emmy. With that, the supporting cast still feel like an integral part of the narrative and the general outcome of various scenarios (including a potential love triangle). Interestingly enough, the killer also has a sense of humor, albeit a twisted one (we get a sense of this in the chapters titled Graham’s Sessions).There’s one scenario that occurs in which the timing is like, what are the chances? But it was a crucial development to the story and it added a lot of interest, so I didn’t mind. As with Now You See Her (another great novel by James Patterson), you later learn that maybe the coincidences aren’t really coincidences after all.And the conclusion to everything? Wow, I didn’t see that coming at all. I caught a whiff of something just pages before Emmy realizes it, too, and that doesn’t happen to me often. A lot of times, I have twists figured out as early as a couple chapters in, but usually by at least halfway through I know part or all of what’s coming. So when I don’t and get truly surprised? Well that’s a real treat. I just bought Unsolved, the sequel to this novel, and I hope it’s just as good.

Reviewer: LILY
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: It was amazing from the first page to the last one.

Reviewer: Alıcı olarak
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: One of the book, fan of patterson's must read.

Reviewer: AAT
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Gripping and edge on the seat thriller, one of the best examples of lucid flow of writing with never loosing fire, pun intended. Though towards the end became bit predictable but a classic clever masterpiece from a great storyteller:)

Reviewer: Lorena V.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Me encantó la historia, me mantuvo interesada todo el tiempo. Lo leí en inglés aunque me hubiera encantado haberlo hecho en español.Lo recomiendo!

Reviewer: fellmann jocelyne
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Il est en anglais