Book Review: Roses are Red

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  My rating 4 stars

  
  

  Blurb

  The Mastermind orchestrates a series of bank robberies that are notable for their precise demandsand their explosive violence when the demands are not met exactly. Detective Alex Cross takes on the case and recognizes that a particular kind of criminal mind is at work. Crosss investigation gets under the Masterminds skin, and he makes it his personal goal to take revenge on Cross and his entire team. Amidst all this, Crosss relationship with his girlfriend Christine is falling apart, and his beloved daughter Jannie is hospitalized with unexplained seizures. The pressure rises on every front, culminating in a shocking and explosive climax. Roses are Red is a Main Selection of The Literary Guild. Pop Goes the Weasel has more than 900,000 copies in print and was a #1 bestseller nationwide. The fan base of the Alex Cross series continues to grow with each book. Along Came a Spider is scheduled for release in October from Paramount with Morgan Freeman signed on to portray Alex Cross as he did in Kiss the Girls.

  
  

  My thought

  It was a pretty good, extremely fast paced read. Probably one of the most intense Alex Cross books yet 

  I was a little skeptical reading first person form (which I am not fond of), but Det. Alex Cross, was quite an interesting character. 

  this book was just a little too violent for my tastes. I liked the mystery and the chase of the "Mastermind" criminal, and I also like the representation of Alex and his family; Nana and the kids.

   The Mastermind makes for a simple name but a very complex rival for Alex Cross. It has an amazing twist that I would have never guessed at the end. It brings you right to the last page and the last sentence and then wham...a giant cliff hanger 

  This was a very impressive sequal to Pop Goes The Weasel. 

  Although a great book, i would not recommend it for kids or readers that are not into a lot of action or laugh about adult things.

  
  

  Quotes

  “You’re juggling these four balls that you’ve named work, family, friends, spirit. Now, work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it bounces back. The other balls — they’re made of glass.”

  
  

• “Three things are certain in this life: death, taxes, and that the press will get it wrong.

  
  

• Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane. I was on a string of books that I’d enjoyed lately: The Pilot’s Wife, The Pied Piper, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the Lehane.

  
  

• If you’re going around in circles, maybe you’re cutting corners.

  
  

• “‘There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.’ — Toni Morrison.”

  
  

• There’s always room for improvement — then you die. What do you think of that one?”

  
  

• Don’t think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm

  
  

• I suspect that waiting in hospitals is as close as we get to being in hell before our time, or at least in purgatory.

  
  

• They took Jannie away from me at five minutes past seven in the morning.

  
  

• “I’m so sorry about Betsey,” said Kyle Craig, the Mastermind. “I’m so sorry, Alex.”