Post #7: Patterson vs. McMann

When I picked out my book three I was looking for a mystery novel with a romance aspect in it. Unfortunately, the synopsis of the book misleads me into thinking that’s what I was getting myself in to. James Patterson’s novel, Beach Road, was mostly just a crime solving. A man was charged with cold blood murder and the two lawyers who were supposedly ex-lovers helped show he was innocent. I was disappointed because I wanted to romance drama in the book. Besides that fact I thought Beach Road was a well written book….very easy to follow. In my fourth book that I am reading right now, Cryer’s Cross, I am very satisfied so far. The teenage girl, Kendall’s classmate has been missing for the past year and the people of this small are still healing because this isn’t normal in Cryer’s Cross, when suddenly Kendall’s boyfriends (but she doesn’t like to call it that) goes missing too! What the! I am enjoying this book a lot better because I like to hear the romance part of the story and Kendall constantly talks about how much she misses Nico, her “boyfriend”. But then there is this other boy in the story named Jacian. I think Kendall and Jacian are going to end up liking each other. Right now they act like they hate each other but I think they will end up having feelings for each other. I have enjoyed McMann’s mystery-love story more than Patterson’s attempt into adding romance in to his crime novel. Round of applause to Lisa McMann!