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abusive, club, dominant, love, marriage, murder, murder mystery, newlyweds, plot twist, Relationships, women
Hello everyone! Welcome to the Book Nook. Today we are going to be doing a review on First to Die by James Patterson. This is the first book to Patterson’s series, The Women’s Murder Club. I love James Patterson and The Women’s Murder Club was recommended to me by my best friend’s mom a few years ago. Since I am going down my TBR list, this was next in line. There are 20, 21 books in the series. Hopefully I’ll be able to continue reading each book back to back without any other books in between. But I make no promises. Before we get started, I encourage you all to comment down below and tell me your thoughts. Also, make sure you are following the Book Nook, so you don’t miss any of my reviews in the future. So, without further ado, let’s get into it.
When a young married couple is found dead in their hotel room, Inspector Lindsay Boxer is assigned to the case. As more murders are being committed she enlists in the help of three other women; her best friend Claire, a medical examiner, Cindy, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronical and Jill, the assistant district attorney. These four women make up the Women’s Murder Club; a outfit that pursues the murder investigation away from the eyes of their bosses. When an arrest is made, a shocking twist is uncovered as well as a conclusion nobody saw coming.
One of the things I love about Patterson is that he gets right to the point. There may be times where you think the character development or the story is moving too fast but that’s how Patterson operates. The first few pages of the story definitely grabs your attention and it makes you eager to find out what happened in the story. I thought it was interesting that Lyndsay had a specific personal issue that was introduced so early in the story. I wonder if Patterson included that to make the audience feel sympathy for her or to make the character more personable. Each of these women have domineering male bosses which is why they came up with the club in the first place. So, I would say that the characters are pretty relatable anyway, at least in that aspect. With that being said, Lindsay’s personal issue may have been unnecessary but that’s just me. Now…there were two parts of the ending that I didn’t like. Without giving too much away, Lindsay had a certain relationship with a certain character and what happened to that character at the end pissed me off. I was pretty upset because Patterson made us care about this entire situation for majority of the book just to let us down in the end?! Like, what the hell?! Then finally, in the last chapter of the book the suspect they had in custody revealed a bit of information about the killings that I thought was…over the top. Don’t get me wrong; it did make me gasp. But I thought it was unnecessary. There was a plot twist in the middle of the book that I did not see coming and it did take my breath away.
This was a pretty good start to the Women’s Murder Club series. It gave a good introduction to the four main characters with good background, the storyline was great and there were times that I was one the edge of my seat anxious for more. There were a few parts that I did not like but it was still a solid book. I look forward to reading the rest of the series.
Overall, I give it a 3/5.
Until next time!