Book Review: Alex's Cross, By James Patterson

Cross Fire REVIEW James Patterson’s series called Alex’s Cross, has a 17th book called Cross Fire is about the return of Mastermind and two intertwining murder plots. Finally, after a variety of tough, hard-working trials, Alex seems to be getting a better luck and will soon have a special day ahead of him, but not without worries blooming in his head. He’s about to marry Bree, but before the exceptional day, Kyle is back in time as the Mastermind and hidden as an FBI agent, out for revenge against Alex. Kyle is an extremely troubling criminal of all time for Alex, who is more sly than the fox and could put it right to shame. Though Kyle isn’t the only murderer around, as Alex is called into a sniper case. It appears that there’s more murderers popping up one by one, flatlining and they’re all ready to kill the citizens. The sniper has been shooting known corrupted politicians. News story is going off on this sniper, believing they are vigilant and they need more stories like this to bring in money. Along the way, Alex meets with Siegel, unaware that he’s actually Kyle in top notch disguise, and is instantly annoyed by his false character, not knowing what it truly is. Though Siegel has ulterior motives, planning to kill Alex one …show more content…
I didn’t even read all of the other books so I was confused, but I still enjoyed it to no end. I just loved how it all played it, but I just couldn’t stand the ending. It was a happy ending and no child of Alex’s was lost. Sure, people died, but his kids didn’t die. That would’ve impacted Alex in more ways and still, his kids are safe without harm despite how the ending could’ve turned out. I only read one other book and then again, it was a happy ending in the end. I felt like at least a kid of his, should’ve died since Kyle was holding them hostage. Overall, I liked the genre of the book and if I didn’t like the book, I would’ve just set it down, but I