This is the one about ‘Roses Are Red.’
Warning: this post may contain spoilers. If you haven’t read this book, and plan on one day reading the Alex Cross novels, skip this post. You’ve been warned.
I ruined this book for myself.
I have this habit that I’ve done since I was a kid. When I pick up a novel I flip to the last page and read the final sentence. I don’t know why I do this. Sometimes it kind of ruins a book, but I’ve never had this bad habit ruin a book so much as it did with Roses Are Red. This novel is about a series of bank robberies orchestrated by an unknown criminal called The Mastermind. And here is the final sentence in this book:
“I’m so sorry about Betsey,” said Kyle Craig, the Mastermind. “I’m so sorry, Alex.”
What the hell?! So I totally knew that the FBI’s Kyle Craig was behind all of the robberies and murders the entire time. Boo.
It was kind of out of character for James Patterson to wait until the final sentence to tell us who the Mastermind was. And the real bad guy wasn’t captured in this novel. Exciting.
I’m a total book snob that likes to say, “I read the book before I saw the movie, and the book was much better.” So I’m going to read Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold before the movie comes out.
