A review by dcp
Sail by Howard Roughan, James Patterson
1.0
Absolute drek. Patterson used to be one of my favorite authors. This book, however, embodies numerous descriptors by which one could hardly characterize his prior work: shallow, artificial, cloying, clichéd, and utterly predictable. Even his fiction that appealed to a young adult audience (the Maximum Ride series) is written for a more mature audience than Sail.
It's a quick beach read with eye-rolls aplenty if that's all you're looking for, but try not to think about how far Patterson has fallen while you shift uncomfortably in your lounge chair. You'll be through it in no time, because you'll just want it to end. This is not the praise critics intend when calling a book a 'page-turner', although Sail surely is for all the wrong reasons.
It's a quick beach read with eye-rolls aplenty if that's all you're looking for, but try not to think about how far Patterson has fallen while you shift uncomfortably in your lounge chair. You'll be through it in no time, because you'll just want it to end. This is not the praise critics intend when calling a book a 'page-turner', although Sail surely is for all the wrong reasons.