Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross)
by James Patterson

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Book Review: A review for Violets are Blue (ha ha)
Summary: 5 Stars

Title:
Violets are Blue

Author:
James Patterson

Genre:
Mystery/Thriller

Characters:
Detective Alex Cross, Kyle Craig, Jamilla Hughes, Michael and William Alexander

Setting:
California, Washington D.C., North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Nevada

Problem:
Detective Alex Cross continues to get unsettling calls from this mysterious villain who calls himself "the Mastermind". But the Mastermind is the least of Cross` worries. Cross has to follow a trail of creepy and unusual murders...cross country. But the murderers don't take anything from the victims except for one thing. All of their blood. So not only does Cross have to catch these sick murderers, he also has to worry about the Mastermind finding his family before he can get there.

Rising Action:
It started as one murder, then two, then three, and so on. All of which were following the same technique. Then they started to change; the way they left the victims, and the way they killed the victims. They covered up all of their tracks and seem almost impossible to find. As soon as things start to settle down with the murders, the Mastermind jumps back into the picture. Revealing himself to be someone you least expected.

Explanation of Characters:
Alex Cross- One of the best detectives the United States has to offer.
Kyle Craig- The head of FBI who thinks he's all that.
Jamilla Hughes (Jam)- A cop from Cali. who helps Alex Cross along the way.
Michael and William Alexander- Sick weirdo's who would do anything for a little taste of blood.

Character Motivations:
All of the characters seem to be motivated from the greed and pleasure, except for Alex and Jamilla who are motivated from the love of their jobs.

Strengths:
All of the characters played a big part of making the book suspenseful, therefore making me not want to put the book down.

Weaknesses:
It started talking about one person, then just stopped. That person didn't get mentioned until the very end of the book. Other then that, the book was perfect.

Summary of Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross)

The malign criminal genius of Roses Are Red is fixing to give Alex a hard time once again. The FBI joins Patterson's dogged cop in a particularly unsettling investigation: two San Francisco joggers have been viciously murdered and are found suspended by their feet, with all the blood drained from their corpses. And when further brutal deaths follow in California and on the East Coast, Alex is forced to contemplate the bizarre possibility of modern-day vampires, although his instincts point him to one of the many sinister religious cults that flourish on the West Coast. Aided by Jamilla Hughes, a streetwise young woman detective from San Francisco, Alex finds that he has to crack not one but two impenetrable mysteries to stop further bloodletting.

Patterson fans expect the extremely concise, page-turning chapters (116 of them here!), along with a reluctance to dawdle over details of his hero's personal life, and both characteristics are firmly back in place. If you can resist reading this one in just a few sittings, you deserve some kind of a thriller reader's medal. --Barry Forshaw, Amazon.co.uk

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