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A review by mycroftholmes
Instinct by Howard Roughan, James Patterson
3.0
Wasted potential.
It's not a bad book at all, but it could've been so much more. The characters, especially Elizabeth, and the premise were interesting, but the execution really brought the rating down by a few points.
This may be me, but when reading a thriller, I want to be able to solve the case either along side them or before them, based on clues given in the text, and this was hard to do when the information was given to us afterwards the MC, Dylan, understood what was going on or it was omitted when the character found it out, just to be revealed later. Also, the fact that the serial killer was a person introduced towards the end was a bit anticlimactic and made it obvious that it was him.
The writing is not bad, but sometimes it's redundant or explains what the characters are saying or their dynamics in a conversation, when it's already clear. Seems like the author underestimates our ability to understand the book lol.
It's not a bad book at all, but it could've been so much more. The characters, especially Elizabeth, and the premise were interesting, but the execution really brought the rating down by a few points.
This may be me, but when reading a thriller, I want to be able to solve the case either along side them or before them, based on clues given in the text, and this was hard to do when the information was given to us afterwards the MC, Dylan, understood what was going on or it was omitted when the character found it out, just to be revealed later. Also, the fact that the serial killer was a person introduced towards the end was a bit anticlimactic and made it obvious that it was him.
The writing is not bad, but sometimes it's redundant or explains what the characters are saying or their dynamics in a conversation, when it's already clear. Seems like the author underestimates our ability to understand the book lol.