This book was the first James Patterson book I have read and also the first murder-mystery book I have read. So I thought a young adult murder-mystery book by James Patterson would be a great place to start but I was a bit let down.
Tandy Angel comes from a very wealthy family but her life has never been perfect. One night when her parents are murdered and Tandy, her brothers and their parents assistant are the only ones in the house, they all become the main suspects of the parents murder. Tandy takes it upon herself to find her parents killer even if the killer is one of her family members or even herself.
Pros of this book:
- The behind the scenes family issues
- Great writing style. James Patterson uses the writing style where the book is written like Tandy is actually talking to you.
Cons of this book:
- Predictable
- Unrelatable characters
- Additional story lines start to develop but then are just forgotten about.
- No build up towards the ending of the book.
- The detectives working on this case did nothing but make accusations.
- Tandy starts talking about something interesting that happened in her life but then just stops talking about it and start talking about something else.
Even though this book was pretty crappy I’ve heard that the next book in the series is pretty good, It’s not a top priority but I will read it one day.
Overall I give this book a 4 out of 10.
SPOILERS – DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU HAVE READ CONFESSIONS OF A MURDER SUSPECT
I found this book a let down. The more I think about it the less I like it. There were a couple things I loved about this book but there were so may things that made me not like it.
For example I absolutely loved the way this book was written, like Tandy was talking to you and I liked all the family secrets. How her parents had given her and her brothers pills to enhance their abilities. And her ‘boyfriend’ and what happened with that. But that was all I liked.
As I said above this book was super predictable. I did what anyone would do with a mystery book, throughout the book I tried to work out how the people were killed. When we were first told that they were killed with poison I connected the dots and also thought about how Tandy didn’t hear and sounds when her parents were killed it had suicide written all over it, even the dumb detectives should have been able to work that out, but I was in denial, I thought it would be boring if a book that such a potential to be great ended in a suicide. But sure enough… That really ruined this book for me. I have an image of sherlock in my mind walking into this crime scene taking one look around and saying, “Why would you waste my time! Its a damn suicide!” before stomping off.
Still I am interested in reading Confessions: The Private School murders and Confessions: The Paris Mysteries. I want to find out more about Tandy’s crazy life. I hope we will get to learn more about her ‘boyfriend’ and about the medication their parents made her take. I am going to try and get these books soon before I lose interest.
Thank you for reading this review!
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