London Bridges (Alex Cross Novel) | James Patterson | A fast read is not necessarily a great...

London Bridges (Alex Cross Novel) | James Patterson | Patterson's Second Worst?

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London Bridges (Al...

	London Bridges (Alex Cross Novel) James Patterson Little, Brown and Company, 2004 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 297 reviews view larger image
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A fast read is not necessarily a great read. Still, it's passable fun

"London Bridges" is a shallow, yet fast and painless read. Slick and impersonal like the last several Alex Cross thrillers, enough warmth and personality still comes through in the main character to somewhat make up for the goofy plot contrivances and lack of depth. And it was also kind of entertaining to see Mr. Patterson, apparently with a straight face, revise the true identity of the villainous "Wolf" every fifteen pages or so. I swear, there seemed to be at least twenty distinct dramatic "revelations" about the Wolf's secret identity during the course of the book, each one almost immediately discredited in favor of the next "no, it's really HIM!" or "no, it's really HER!" moment. Sheesh, it was enough to make your head spin.

But, in the end, shortcomings aside, "London Bridges" is silly, harmless fun. But, I have to admit, the best I can say about the book is that it's not boring, which is not quite the same thing as saying that it's very good.

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Patterson's Second Worst?

I rank this book slightly higher than Season of the Machete, simply because I only got to page 25 of that book before giving up on it. I finished this book, but it was hardly an enjoyable read. The one positive is that the chapters are very short, so it feels like the novel moves along at a nice pace. The actual content, however, is very poor. This book is just surviving off the past Cross novels. If someone was just picking up this book having not read any of the prior Cross novels, they are just not going to understand or care about the subplots involving Cross's estranged son, his other two kids, this new love life, etc. I've read all the books leading up to this book, and I barely cared or understood what was going on.

Compare this to Kiss The Girls or Jack and Jill, and it comes up way short. The story and the plot are very thin and very disjointed. Nothing about this book keeps you on the edge of your seat, and you will only feel compelled to finish it if you are a completist. This was by far the worst of the Cross books.

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