The Thomas Berryman Number by James Patterson Review

Let me just start off by saying I’m a massive James Patterson fan, I read every one as soon as it’s out and sometimes get through it in less than twenty four hours, so I was extremely chuffed when I saw this one: JP’s very first novel. Reading the back it starts with three terrifying murders in the American South and ends with an unforgettable manhunt in the North, right up my street I thought.

How wrong was I? I got halfway through the book and I’ve had to give up, it’s very disjointed and jumps from one place to the next making it very hard to follow, I can’t warm to any of the characters either, the story didn’t hold my interest and I had to put it down. I never usually put down a James Patterson until it’s done; if this had been the first JP book I’d picked up, I would never have read another.

I’m so glad it wasn’t.