Review: Confessions of a Murder Suspect

Confessions of a Murder Suspect

by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

 

Book Description:

On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1) She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2) The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3) She can't trust anyone--maybe not even herself. Having grown up under Malcolm and Maud's intense perfectionist demands, no child comes away undamaged. Tandy decides that she will have to clear the family name, but digging deeper into her powerful parents' affairs is a dangerous-and revealing-game. Who knows what the Angels are truly capable of? 

Review:

Okay, so I'm going to be brutally honest here. I kind of hated this book. All around. Yup.

Although I thought this was a clever premise and I went into reading with sort of high hopes, from about three chapters in I just wanted this book to be done already. Tandy is supposed to be cold and emotionless and yes, that comes across just fine. It made me not connect with her or the other characters at all and then, then... then there were the moments when she obnoxiously addressed the reader directly.

I suppose I was struggling my way through the book, hating the voice, but still persisting until the big reveal. I won't ruin it for any of you that may want to read this book, but I will tell you that I basically ranted to my husband for like 45 minutes about what a cop-out it was. What a waste of time it was for me to read the book only to find out...

So... well, there it is. I didn't like it and I won't be reading the other books in the series. I hope that you Patterson fans out there don't let me influence you, but...