The Dark Tide by Andrew Gross
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Book Reviews of The Dark Tide
Book Review: worth what I paid
Summary: 1 Stars
I got this book free for my kindle and it was worth it. Karen is a woman with caramel, honey, auburn hair and hardened ,sharp brown, hazel eyes who lives in a fancy Greenwich house with two teen-age kids who fight over a shared bathroom. When her husband is supposedly killed in a bomb blast ,and nothing is found but his briefcase handle, she has no problem getting a death certificate and collecting 4 million dollars. When she meets detective Houck he has his 10 year old daughter on his shoulders. Two months later the daughter is thirteen and too stupid to flip a burning pancake.Houck falls asleep watching a house and when he wakes it's light so he gets his flashlight to do some B & E. The suspect is an ex-cop and professional security alarm installer but Houck has no trouble finding the breaker on a bush. Fortunately there is no battery back-up on the alarm system and he has no trouble running the computer and printer without electricity. And LORDY! all the physical side effects of the emotions! Eyes screw, drill, snap to the page like a magnet (shades of wiley coyote). Heads explode. hearts crash, blood explodes out of the veins, legs turn to jelly. guts feel like they've had a wire dragged through them, arm hairs tingle and stand on edge. One more "wink" from either a bad guy or good guy and I would have bounced the kindle off the wall. Any high school kid, with a proper outline and time-line, could have done a better job.Book Review: James Patterson he's not!
Summary: 1 Stars
Andrew Gross did SOMETHING with best-selling author, James Patterson, but having read all of the latter's and this and one other of the former, I am wondering what it was.
Those books with Patterson's co-authors have been very disappointing.
Even as Patterson was going farther and farther afield of his best-selling works he was beginning to - supposedly - 'mentor' co-authors.
None really works on the same level as Patterson's earlier novels, which were so good they could be made into exceptionally good movies.
Now, it seems that Patterson's sole goal is to publish more and more fiction than Stephen King. Too bad, King at his VERY BEST, could not write a book that lived up to his fawning reviews.
I will not repeat the specific problems others have described. I would just suggest you find a master of the craft. I would also suggest that Gross try Romance novels; he seems to have that rare perspective for a male author: an average woman's yo-yoing emotions.
At this point, I can only recommend less prolific authors such as Michael Connelly, Robert Crais and, still, John Sandford.
Book Review: Couldn't Get Further than Page 10
Summary: 1 Stars
It's no wonder Amazon is pushing this for free. The writing is terrible. It reminds me of one of James Patterson's horrendous factory-written jobs. It could have been written by a computer that has synthesized all the cliches from all the crime fiction ever written. I'm astonished anyone reads these books.