Lakehouse booking8/31/2023 The Lake House skips over scenes and parts of the story moves in fits and starts. Great chunks of action happen with shorthand writing and then Patterson spends nearly an hour of the 7 1/2 hour book describing two of the characters' first sexual experiences. They all can fly and all have superhuman strength. The Lake House is the story of six bird/human hybrids who are created as the result of genetic experiments. Or at least anything outside of the Cross series. The story dies at the end, along with any enthusiasm I might have had to read any more Patterson. There are italics, adverbs and exclamation marks galore, and most irritating is Patterson's habit of having his characters ask questions about the plot (what might the evil doctor be up to?) over and over again, when the reader knows the answer, thus there's no suspense. A chapter (there were 109!) lasts 4 pages on average, a paragraph maybe 5 lines, and a sentence is lucky to get into double figures. None of the characters have any personality, and all of them speak in a try-hard vernacular that crowbars in pop culture references and humour at inappropriate times. It involves flying children and a badly thought out plan by a nefarious doctor to harvest the organs of young healthy men to rejuvenate aging world leaders (how? God knows, I doubt Patterson does). The plot is ludicrous and seems to have been made up as Patterson went on. The tagline on the cover 'Don't read it alone in your home' is utterly pointless, and I think it means because if you were alone you'd have no-one to rant at about the book's failings. The protagonists spent their time between the last book and this one in the Lake House, and only visit during the epilogue in this book. If I had I wouldn't have read this, but I'd bought it cheap based on my like of Patterson's Alex Cross series. I don't remember the first one, When the Wind Blows, being this bad. It still felt awesome that I've read more of Maximum Ride, but overall, I'm a bit disappointed.Ī book so crap I threw it across the room when I gratefully finished it. Not Patterson's best book, and also not his best prequel duology. I've read way better from Patterson, and I know I'll be reading more better ones from him.ģ.5/5 stars. The writing still felt like it was for the young-adult. The ending was better than expected, although it was a bit cheesy for me. Vast amount of romance aside, this was a good novel. If he wrote the ending differently, this would've gotten a 2 from me. When I was ready to finally finish it, Patterson decided to add in one last little scene that made the novel better than it was. With less than 10 pages left, that's where the exciting action happened. The main story wasn't tackled because of the vast amount of romance building. The amount was more than it should've been. It wasn't as amazing as it should've been. The main problem would be the execution of the plot. It wasn't bad, but it was a huge letdown. The flock continues to fight their battles with Dr. The mystery continues and questions will be answered. The story continues in the second novel of the duology. This is a terrible book and shouldn't be read by anyone except in possibly a Mystery Science Theatre kind of appreciation for the kind of entertainment that is so bad it's funny. Also, I listened to the audio book edition, and there is terrible, overdramatic music dubbed in at certain parts that drops an already bad book into C-grade horror movie territory. And when a character "shoots the cuffs" of his windbreaker? Who wears cuff links on a windbreaker? And ok, a 12 year old laying eggs is a little bit of a stretch, but the idea that each egg is 3-4 lbs and nobody noticed she was pregnant? Two 3-4 lb eggs are equal to or larger than a regular human baby, and would create just as big of a lump. And when recent IQ tests are mentioned that were apparently administered when a client was unconscious? What? And when there are snipers, and then they are called off because it was just a drill? A drill in a place where the characters are never expected to be again? What kind of contrived suspense and then cheap cop-out is that? And when the wound of a dead person is still pumping out blood And when there are riflemen shooting at the kids, and they shoot down a plane (with a regular rifle, not an anti aircraft gun) and then when the kids fly down to confront the villain, suddenly the riflemen just disappear? Like the fact that Frannie tells this story as a narrator to an audience, except when there are perspective switches to characters who tell the story in more conventional third person. There was bad writing and overblown language, but the huge problems with details in this book were impossible to ignore. I've never before read such a ridiculous, poorly crafted book with such blatant mistakes.
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