The Lake House

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THE LAKE HOUSE, is a fascinating thriller starring six unusual children whom capture the hearts of the audience as they try to make a place for themselves in this BRAVE NEW WORLD.

I really enjoyed The Lake House by James Patterson i hadn't read him for a long time so decided to go for it. All the way through I was thinking of Joseph Mengale and the evil that men do and suddenly its not so unbelievable. 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.Ethan Kane of the mysterious “Hospital” works on the Resurrection Project, murdering people to harvest their organs for rich and famous patients. The memorable story begun in When the Wind Blows continues in this thrilling new novel, and it's one that really soars!

She also has a disturbing encounter with a reporter, Linda Schein, who questions her about the Hospital and the Resurrection Project. This sequel to Patterson’s bestselling, and best, novel ( When the Wind Blows, 1998) soars, like its appealing cast, only intermittently. He has discovered a way to greatly increase the lifespan of a person by transplanting the entire organ system from a young healthy person, healthy before he killed them that is, into the bodies of rich and affluent people who are ailing. Sadly, the herky-jerky nature of the book cannot be blamed on poor editing during the process of abridgement because this is an unabridged reading.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. Even the title I would say isn't justified properly, there is a mention of the Lake House throughout but it is over-stretched to no end. During the custody trials, Max testifies to the horrors she’s been through and insists that the Lake House, where the flock briefly lived with Frannie and Kit, was the one place where they felt safe.

However, I think that real fans of Maximum Ride will enjoy The Lake House, although it should be remembered that unlike the recent audiobooks, these two earlier novels are not appropriate for kids. I don't know what possessed me to not look at the author's name before I picked this book up to read. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been.

Like most Patterson novels, this one raced along (on top of his usual short chapters and fast pace) to a relatively satisfying conclusion, although somehow it seemed like the last 15 miles of a 500 mile race were mysteriously eluded.