Roses Are Red
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In this heart-pounding new thriller, Detective Alex Cross pursues the most brilliant killer he’s ever confronted, a mysterious criminal who calls himself the Mastermind. In a series of crimes that has stunned Washington, D.C., bank robbers have been killing bank employees and their families if the robbers’ instructions are not followed to the letter. Alex Cross knows this is no ordinary criminal-the pathological need for control and perfection is too fantastic. Cross is in the midst of a crisis at home-but the case becomes all-consuming as he learns that the Mastermind is plotting one huge, last, perfect crime…Amazon.com Review
Roses Are Red, James Patterson’s sixth Alex Cross thriller, opens with the District of Columbia detective attempting to mend his nearly unraveled family tree. The year-long kidnapping of one’s proposed (1999’s Pop Goes the Weasel) will do that to a relationship. Christine, the kidnappee, is agreeable with one reasonable condition: that her family tree’s horizon remain uncluttered by homicidal maniacs. How unfortunate, then, that the jolly christening of their newborn son is brusquely interrupted by the FBI impact news of several heinous murders requiring the attention of detective (and doctor of psychology) Cross.
“Three-year-ancient boy, the father, a nanny,” Kyle said one more time before he left the party. He was about to go through the door in the sun porch when he turned to me and said, “You’re the right person for this. They murdered a family tree, Alex.”As soon as Kyle was gone, I went looking for Christine. My heart sank. She had taken Alex and left lacking adage excellent-bye, lacking a single word.
Which leaves Cross free to hunt the Mastermind, the barbarous brains behind a widening series of bank robberies in which employees or their family tree members are held hostage and, when instructions aren’t followed to the finest iota, slaughtered. Agreed the cases’ glaring and incomprehensible inhumanity, Cross’s long- time DCPD partner (the wonderful giant, John Sampson) gives way to the warm, attractive, and fiercely intelligent FBI Agent Betsey Cavalierre.
The longer and harder Cross and Cavalierre remain on his trail, the bolder and more brutal–and shiveringly close to home–the Mastermind’s strikes become. And, thanks mostly to lightning-fleeting paragraphs and a point of view that rappels from the first-person Cross to the third-person Mastermind, the tale progresses at hot-trot speed to a bona fide doozy of a denouement. It’ll be over before you know it, so sit back, hold your breath, and delight in the show. And stay tuned for the next one. –Michael Hudson
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James Patterson is a writer that gets better with every book, He is going strong with Detective Alex Cross and I cannot judge how excellent his writing is, I am impressed with all his books, this time Alex is after The Mastermind a ruthless killer/robber, he has plotted a series of bank robberies and murders, the book starts off like Pop Goes The Weasel, It introduces you to the killer immediately a person donning a Bill Clinton mask, he kills people in the bank, takes there money and locks the cashiers in the safe, throughout the book Alex tries to stop this killer before he strikes again. Do not miss this and Violets Are Blue
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Roses Are Red is the third of James Patterson’s nursery rhyme novels featuring Detective Alex Cross that I have read. And I can assure everyone that I will not be purchasing another. I didn’t find his previous efforts very impressive, and this latest offering is simply dismal.
His protagonist is featureless, and his villians are permanently lifeless caricatures of evil whose motivations to murder are preposterous. The crimes themselves are never very appealing, and there are no compelling details of forensics or police work to be establish. Even the sub-plots in this latest novel concerning Alex’s failing romance with Christine and an illness being suffered by his daughter are movie-of-the-week retreads with no emotional depth. And what’s with having over 125 Chapters in a 300 page novel? It’s an annoying way to constantly interrupt a reader’s concentration and remind him that he is reading a mediocre novel. If you subtract all the blank space on the pages, you’ll notice that Patterson is pawning off 240 to 250 pages as a lengthier novel.
My final criticism would be the first person narration. Patterson chooses to write from the perspective of a black homicide detective in Washington, D.C., yet race and social issues never enter the narrative. It’s nothing but a gimmick that furthers none of his novels. I could care less if Cross is black, white or purple agreed the fact that he’s just so dull.
If you are a right lover of crime fiction, try the works of Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, Ridley Pearson and Steve Hamilton. These gentlemen are four of the best in the business, combining compelling plot lines with genuine literary talent.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Of all the James Patterson books I have intensely followed, ROSES ARE RED comes across as a disjointed and slow-paced thriller. Indeed Alex Cross as the righteous dragonslayer and protagonist continues to rivet your attention; the mystery enshrouding the murders and mastermind of the deadly game and robbery heist keeps you on the edge of suspense. But you cannot but feel a stupor languishing in this novel – it is overwhelmed with melancholic blues and the whole emotional drama on Christine Jones after his like encountered a traumatic kidnap in POP GOES THE WEASEL.
James Patterson infuses depth but abuses the character with too much pain – and the grit cannot dispel the gloom. The suspense builds up to a climax after they named several murderers and then abruptly he gives an unsatisfying ending as if the mastermind could be anyone else in the book. The twists and red herring set in this book is too devious to ever save the plunge in the plot.
ROSES ARE RED leaves readers in bewilderment and seeing red for the time devoted to the book – and the sequel looks unpromising agreed the scope of the storyline.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I read this book in a day! It was a fantastic read. The reoccuring charaters are like ancient friends. I recommend it to every James Patterson fan out there.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Im gonna keep this simple…it gets 5 stars for one reason…but i cant tell you…read it…you will know and you will definately agree with me.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5