The Quickie
by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
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Author: James Patterson, Michael LedwidgeEdition: Paperback
Published: 2008-04-01
ISBN: 0446501646
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: Entertaining, but somewhat flawed...
Summary: 3 Stars
The only James Patterson book I have ever read is Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas. I have never read any of his thrillers, which is what he's known for. I picked up The Quickie, co-authored by Michael Ledwidge, on a whim while I was browsing the new paperbacks section at the bookstore. Even though I wouldn't call this novel brilliant or clever, it is definitely entertaining and will probably enable me to pick up other Patterson thrillers in the future. Lauren Stillwell's world shatters when she sees her husband sneaking off during lunchtime to meet with another woman. How could he do that to her after all they've been through together? But instead of confronting him and throwing a tantrum, she does something else -- she evens the score by sleeping with a colleague she's had a crush on for a long time. Little had she known the can of worms she has opened by doing such a thing. She catches her husband killing her lover, and now she has to do the sort of unethical things she thought she would never do -- trample with evidence, lie to people -- in order to cover her husband's tracks and save her job, not to mention avoid involving the media at all cost. But things get more complicated for Lauren when twists, turns and flooring discoveries and events unfold.
This novel lives by its name. It is definitely a quickie and I wasn't bored throughout the riveting read. The chapters are very short, something I noticed in Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, which make reading this book a breeze. The characters are all well-defined. Many reviewers complained that the characters, especially the heroine, are all flawed and have unlikable qualities. I for one appreciate reading a book whose heroine isn't a perfect, moral, Law and Order type, but a flawed and at times selfish person who is looking after herself and her loved ones. (For no matter how much she claims she is also looking after Scott's family's best interest, her motives are more selfish than that.) The things she allows to happen and the things that occur for omitting her husband's crime are awful, but I felt for Lauren and her dilemma. The somewhat ironic twist at the end is great, but the resolution is glossed over and is tied up a little too neatly for my liking. I won't go into further detail because I don't want to post any spoilers, but I'm sure that those who have read this novel will agree with me on that account. All in all, The Quickie is entertaining from beginning to end. It's nothing special, but it serves its purpose as a good thriller. This is the perfect spring/summer "quickie."
Summary of The Quickie
When Lauren Stillwell discovers her husband leaving a hotel room with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But while she's sneaking around, her husband is hatching a plan of his own. After a torrid quickie with a co-worker, Lauren hears a struggle outside her window and looks out just in time to see her husband loading her lover's limp body into the trunk of a car. When the body shows up in a pool of shallow water, she races to the scene of the crime. But Lauren Stillwell is no regular wronged woman. She's a NYC cop--and she's just been assigned to this case. Unable to tell anyone what she saw and unwilling to turn her husband in, Lauren is paralyzed by a secret that will tear her life apart. But as she attempts to point fingers away from her husband, she uncovers something shocking: her husband didn't have an affair--what he did was far worse than she could have ever imagined. A gripping story of secrets and infidelities that begins where Adrian Lyne's movie Unfaithful leaves off, THE QUICKIE will have readers' hearts pounding to the very last page.Contemporary Books
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