The 5th Horseman (The Women's Murder Club)
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
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Author: James Patterson, Maxine PaetroEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-01
ISBN: 0446618195
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Vision
Book Reviews of The 5th Horseman (The Women's Murder Club)
Book Review: Don't Waste Your Money.
Summary: 1 Stars
"The 5th Horseman." This is one of the worst novels, if not the worst novel I have ever read.
In my opinion it's very poorly written. To me, the characters are just cardboard cut outs, not much depth or complexity to them at all. I like the premise of a hospital serial killer, but the novel never really established anything believably enough for me to buy into it to feel the suspense. If I don't believe it then it's hard to get sucked in to care about the characters or what happens to them (though the last few chapters were a little suspenseful).
It's a fast read, with short chapters which makes it fly by which I suppose is okay, much really not much depth at all.
The novel starts out with Lt. Lindsay Boxer with SFPD investigating cases of young, beautiful women that are left dead in cars. They investigative team starts referring to them as "Caddy Girl,' or "Jag Girl." Then the plot shifts to a whole scenario of suspicious hospital murders and the trial of Dr.Dennis Garza, the chief doctor of SF Municipal Hospital's ER. As the novel continues you're left wondering what these 2 plots have to do with each other. I kept waiting for some kind of tie in and never found it. I finished the book (amazingly enough) wondering why the 2 plots were thrown together into the same novel that had nothing to do with each other! It just didn't make any sense. I was sort of foolishly assuming that when I read a novel there must be some thought given to it, or some reason why things happen they way the do, I mean after all it got published, right? Wrong.
Also, at times, the author switches indiscriminately from first person narrative to third person in the following chapter for no apparent reason at all. So in one chapter we're reading, Lindsay narrating what she's doing or thinking or feeling such as "I" got in my car" or whatever it was, then in the next chapter we're reading a third person narration such as "LIndsay walked toward the door of the morgue," Wait a minute wasn't it just Lindsay that was just narrating? Not that that can't change but it should make some kind of sense. it was weird. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason for the narrative change. I've read other novels where the author uses this type of switch effectively and it makes sense and there is a reason for it and it works.
I love a good thriller, suspense mystery, but this is not one of them. Sadly this is my first James Patterson novel. He must have written better novels in the past to establish such a name for himself. This novel seems to have been thrown together to meet a deadline without any real thought or effort put into it. I agree with the previous reviewers- he probably didn't write this novel at all, his co-author probably wrote it and it sells because Patterson's name is on it.
I only read this novel because it was recommended to me and I only paid 25 cents for it. I would never pay more than a quarter for this book. The only redeeming value is that I'm learning to write novels and some say it's important to read bad novels to learn what doesn't work for you. This book served that purpose.
Summary of The 5th Horseman (The Women's Murder Club)
It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths--and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation at all costs. And while the hospital wages an explosive court battle that grips the entire nation, the Women's Murder Club hunts for a merciless killer among its esteemed medical staff. The newest addition to the top selling new mystery series takes the Women's Murder Club to the most terrifying heights of suspense they have yet to encounter. THE 5TH HORSEMAN proves once again that James Patterson is "the page-turningest author in the game right now " (San Francisco Chronicle).Literature & Fiction Books
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