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Just finished Along Came a Spider by James Patterson. Mixed feelings about it. There were lots of good elements to the basic storyline but I felt that JP's use of the first person narrative and worse the switching back and forth between first person and third person narratives was very distracting. I really think you should only write in the first person if you are an extremely talented wordsmith or alternatively if you are writing in a diary format. I also had a few DA moments (moments where I wanted to shout at the book because the protagonist, a supposedly highly educated man with his doctorate at one of the most prestigious institutions in America fails to make even basic connections or draw simple and obvious conclusions and is exposed as a d**ba**. I had similar moments in Dan Brown's masterpiece). However, as I said there were some interesting elements to the storyline and it was definitely a quick easy read.
I'm moving on to an umpteenth reread of the Anne of Green Gables series I think.
Mel
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