Book 27 of 26 -- James Patterson Beach Road

I continue to read.

I continue to fill my precious head with useless mystery books and books that require a bit more thought...

Then... I pick up a James Patterson book.. The latest is Beach Road. He really does seem to put out like 6-7 books a year. I am not kidding... Within a week of Beach Road being released, he put out a children's book which is the second in a series of books about the flying children.

He also has another book already scheduled to be published at the end of July.

He is really the most prolific writer on the market.

His books pretty much follow the same formula. They are almost always around 400 pages and have about 130 chapters in them. There are usually four main sections, a prologue and an epilogue. A mean, nasty man or woman is killing people and there is a race against time to solve the murder. Oh... and someone usually gets laid... almost always the protagonist who usually tells the story in first person. When more action is added, the story follows characters around in third person...



Beach Road follows the basic formula, but Patterson added a twist this time. The story moves between 6 narrators. Each narrator tells their part of the story and all of them use the first person. It was confusing and irritated the hell out of me around page 200 or so.

It isn't a bad book, but I hate having to flip back to see who said what... irritating.

This is PERFECT beach reading. You should finish it in a day or two.