Mistress
By James Patterson & David Ellis
- Release Date: 2013-08-05
- Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Description
Discover a dangerous world of manipulation, obsession, and murder in James Patterson's scary, sexy standalone thriller.
Ben isn't like most people. Unable to control his racing thoughts, he's a man consumed by his obsessions: movies, motorcycles, presidential trivia-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful woman Ben knows he can never have.
When Diana is found dead outside her apartment, Ben's infatuation drives him on a hunt to find out what happened to the love of his life. He soon discovers that the woman he pined for was hiding a shocking secret. And now someone is out to stop Ben from uncovering the truth about Diana's illicit affairs.
In his most heart-pumping thriller yet, James Patterson plunges us into the depths of a mind tortured by paranoia and obsession, on an action-packed chase through a world of danger and deceit.
Reviews
Mistress
1By Suzy-in-CADon't bother. Annoying, boring. And I generally love Patterson's books.If your just trying to kill time, read this book
3By Emil_BeeNot to say that Mistress was not a good book, it was decent and I did enjoy the writing, it's not mentally stimulating. There were many times I felt as if the story was just dragging on, and it was a bit predictable. The book was exciting, and I did enjoy reading it, but Mistress was more of a, I don't really want to think about anything and veg out and read, type of book.No, no, no... Very disappointing.
1By BritSarvI almost gave this book two stars only because the actual storyline around Diana somehow grabbed my attention and I mildly wanted to know what happened to her. But it just doesn't deserve that. Other than that, this is the most disorganized, manic, repetitive, delusional, grandiose, ridiculous, unbelievable, cheesy, irrelevant book I have ever read. To get to what I wanted to know, I had to trudge through page after page of absolute, headache-worthy nonsense. The main thing is that the book has a ton of potential to be good. What should be the focus of the book gets put aside because the reader is so distracted by the filler. Should remove that stupidity and just make it a novella (and make Ben a little less psychotic and invincible). Patterson, did you owe this guy a favor!?Yuck!
1By oki323This book is terrible! Did Patterson write this for real? I've forced myself to read a third of it before giving up. I don't like the characters or the plot development. It's boring and a waste of time.Miss tery
2By Hamlet girlI wish James Patterson would write his own books like he once did. This was his last chance. Nothing like his old suspenseful novels with twist and turns. Not a page turner. Only thing that still remands are short chapters. At the end I lost interest. Good luck,readers.Mistress
1By Pattom75Very disappointed Hard time reading tempted many times to stop but kept thinking it would get better would not recommendMistress
1By MaddMax2013Stupid book. I hated it.Disappointing
1By Lovetoread876Collection of ideas from other books intertwined with political history trivia. Lacking in originality. Mr. Patterson sold out. Mr. Ellis needs to come up with his own story not borrow from others. The publisher would probably publish a book with blank pages as long as it had Jim Patterson's name on it. Very disappointed that Mr. Patterson would allow this type of work to represent him. I've always been a fan of his ORIGINAL works. Gets one star because half is not available.Mistress
5By Hmfuller90Awesome book, I was on my toes the whole time!! Love it!So-so
3By ChainreviewWhile not one of his best, I did enjoy it. Unbelievable? Sure, but then again...it is fiction. Nothing different than an action packed movie. Some reviews found it annoying, but I liked the ramblings of Ben.Decent read
4By Redsoxnumba1Was pretty light reading. Mildly entertaining. Like able characters though.Mistress
1By Elaine2922I was so excited to read this new book. I kept waiting for a story to start. All I'm reading is a guy who talks to himself A LOT. Very little dialogue in the whole book. No true ending either. It's almost as if someone else wrote the book and used Pattersons name. Not a good read at all.Frustrating Book
1By Billyroy7I'm a big fan of Patterson's books, but this one was awful. Must of been written by his co author Ellis, whose style in this book is the constant thoughts of the main character trying to be cute with movie and presidential trivia. Just when something was going to be revealed in the improbable plot, the author would go on a two or three page dialog of silly trivia. Waste of time and money. I read to or three books a week, and always finish the book, no matter how bad it is. I gave up on this when I was half finished and deleted it from my IPad. I'll bet James Patterson didn't read this book.Mistress
1By CAmcrapcouldn't even get through the sample!!! what an awful read.Mistress
1By JerpybaledayWorst book I have ever tried to read. Finally gave up halfway through it! Always anticipate the next Patterson book I can get my hands on. What a disappointment!!!Mistress
5By Butcher rageI love,love,love this book. James Patterson at his best. I eagerly await every one of his books and every time I expect a storyline about serial killers and that's what I get. This book surprised me, I normally turn to Robert Ludlum for stories of espionage not Patterson. You have proven that imagination has no limitation. I do not care about what other people say, this is one of your best works.Imposter
1By Macman 8765Patterson is obviously lending his name to the coauthor to sell the book. What a mistake. Why put your reputation in the hands of another? This was about the worst book I have read in years. The continual movie and tv references was bizarre and quite annoying. Storyline was fragmented and totally unbelievable. In summary it was awful. I want my money back!Mistress
1By Linray#2711Bad....just not up to par for Patterson. In fact, terrible, had to put it down. Awful!!!!!Rowling beat him to it...
3By DmstellerA beautiful woman nose dives from a building...was it suicide or homicide? This story was done earlier this year by none other than J.K. Rowling in 'A Cuckoo's Calling.' While Rowling's version is much, much slower - it is written like a true classic novel. 'The Mistress' is really sloppily put together and not very well written. So if you want to read any novel involving a "suicide or homicide?" storyline - pick up 'A Cuckoo's Calling.' Sorry, James.
