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Friday 56 #111 – The Big Bad Wolf by James Patterson @JP_Books

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The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice.The only rules are to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your ereader and find any sentence or a few ( no spoilers) that grabs you and post it.

Please join Rose City Reader every Friday to share the first sentence or so of the book you are reading along with you initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires.

Please include the title of the book and the author’s name.

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2014-03-25 02.46.13I don’t think there is anyone that hasn’t heard of James Patterson, but have you read The Big Bad Wolf? Another great thriller, suspense novel.

This is the cover I have for my 1st edition hardcover published in 2003, but the colors are more vibrant.

The Big Bad Wolf (Alex Cross, #9)

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My 56

“I’m Alex Cross, with the FBI,” I said to Brigid, who seemed tremendously self-assured for her age, especially during this crisis. “I think that your father is expecting me.”

(Page 56 in hardcover, published in 1999)

Book Beginnings

The Phipps Plaza shopping mall in Atlanta was a showy montage of pink-granite floors, sweeping bronze-trimmed staircases, gilded Napoleonic design, lighting that sparkled like halgen spotlights. A man and a woman watched the target – “Mom”- as she left Niketown with sneakers and whatnot for her three daughters packed under one arm.

GOODREADS BLURB: Alex Cross, Patterson”s black lawman hero, has left the D.C. police force for the FBI. But Cross was a star cop, so when the Bureau becomes aware that attractive white women are disappearing at an unusually high rate in the nation”s capital, Cross, despite still being in training at Quantico, is brought onto the case and is personally mentored by the Bureau”s director, earning the ire of some Feds but the support of others. Behind the disappearances is a sexual slavery operation run as a sideline by one of the more believable and most compellingly evil villains in the Patterson universe, the Wolf, a mysterious former KGB man who”s now the world”s top mobster. The narrative throughout is swift and varied, as Patterson cuts among the diabolical schemes of a Russian magnate who may be the Wolf, the plight of several kidnap victims, the dogged pursuit by Cross and company of the Wolf, and the hideous designs of the members of an encrypted computer chat room who pay the Wolf fortunes to snatch women who fit their fantasies. And there”s domestic drama, too, as the mother of Cross”s young son, Alex, decides that she wants her boy back. Full of plot surprises and featuring a balanced mix of intrigue, hard action and angst, the novel, on which Patterson notably does not share cover credit, grips from start to finish. The Alex Cross series remains Patterson”s finest, and this is the finest Cross in years.

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WHICH COVER WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

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Saturday Shorts – The Critters Fight Back – Zoo by James Patterson

James Patterson is an awesome writer, but his books have become pretty predictable…

until ZOO.

I was so excited to see him break from his usual and venture out.

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MY BOOK REVIEW

I was very eager to get my hands on Zoo by James Patterson and I was lucky enough to know someone with a copy to borrow, my sister, Laura @ fuonlyknew.

The animals are fighting back. Are you surprised? I’m not.

I empathize with the critters and feel we are getting our just desserts. How long can we go on using and abusing everything around us, taking it for granted that it is our God given right?

Innocents are killed when it comes to war.

I must tell you, when I say, “DON’T OPEN THE DOOR…DON’T!”

Action packed and riveting.

This is a must read for us thrills and chills junkies.

The ending…is it?

Animated Animals. Pictures, Images and Photos A raving 5 Stars

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MY TV SERIES REVIEW

I had been eagerly waiting for the series to begin.

I was a bit disappointed, but knew it could never match the book. Sometimes there is no way to take the book details and transition them to the visual.

I still eagerly anticipated every episode, adjusting my schedule so I wouldn’t miss anything, or at least trying to. Sometimes life just gets in the way, know what I mean?

The storyline left out a lot of the violent scenes in the book, but that was to be expected.

The actors were nothing exceptional, but did the job. It was really the story I was after anyway.

 Will there be a season two? You betcha and I would have been very ticked off if there wasn’t.

Have you been watching…on the TV, over your shoulder, the rustle in the bushes…

Animated Animals. Pictures, Images and Photos 4 Stars

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