The Beach House by james patterson

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 26,2025

I love a well written mystery book! And this one was very well written!
When I first read the title of this book, the first thought that crossed my mind, was “I should have read this book next summer, not now... so near the Christmas holiday”, but now, after finishing it... I’m so happy that I didn’t wait so long. Because I really enjoyed it.
I couldn’t guess what the ending would be like and this impressed me. Usually I guess the ending when I’m done with 50% of a book. But this time I was impressed to be amazed and kept in the dark.
Good job, James! 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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ocs

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 26,2025

Thursday, June 25, 2009
Book Review - The Beach House by James Patterson & Peter De Jonge

The Beach House

I'm going to get right into it, without any skirting around - if you've never read a James Patterson novel, here's a great place to start. I've only read one other book by him, but The Beach House impressed me so much that it gets an ultimate recommendation.

It's not that Patterson's thriller breaks a lot of ground in the suspense/thriller literary genre, in fact opting for a simple storyline touching on themes of money as power and the ease the rich have in covering up their dirty deeds. After his brother is murdered by a rich and powerful family, main character James sets out to get revenge and uncover the truth after the family is able to convince the police that the death was a suicide. It's a fairly straight-forward detective case for most of the novel, until a few twists in the plot push the intensity and mystery higher.

But what stands out as a great achievement, and factors into an extremely pleasurable read, is the voice of James. As he narrates, the reader grows closer and closer to him, almost to the point where we're so associated with James that we are as hard-pressed to uncover the truth as the characters in the story are. Patterson paints a vivid picture of each character, especially the rich family's history that leads to the reader's constant emotional attachment to James and his brother. Effectively moving and comedic at the same time, Patterson's main character gives The Beach House a much more invigorating tale.

And as we work our way into James' revenge, the plot escalates so well that it's a relief when we finally learn how James will uncover what he knows is true. It's not much of a surprise, but the elaborate and believable setup that Patterson stages is suspenseful enough to keep the reader flipping every page until they finally get to the inevitable conclusion.

Patterson does sometimes switch from James' narration to a third-person perspective, though, and it diverts our attention from James enough to be a bit bothersome. Towards the end, we find that the character that we follow in these third-person parts is actually a pretty minor character, adding a bit of frustration to those of us who want to read more of James' thoughts (or was I the only one in love with his personality?)

But that's only a minor quibble. The fact of the matter is, The Beach House is an excellent novel full of intrigue, emotion, and mystery. It may be formulaic, but the perspective from which it's told held my attention so raptly that I couldn't put the book down. And even though the "whodunnit" part of the novel is solved early on, James' solution is much more entertaining. A great book for those of you with an insatiable appetite for crime drama, with a good, if a bit trite, critique on the power of the rich.

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Davizolabr

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 26,2025

James Patterson’s ‘The Beach House,’ has nothing in it profound enough to be a picking point. But this seems to be the problem for this flat and unmoving work, that doesn’t resemble the reputation that the writer has acquired from classics, such as ‘Kiss the Girls.’

‘The Beach House’ moves steadily through the story with no real fault, except that it is mostly predictable and nothing really exciting is going on. But there is a point between sections where a vague chapter or two tells us some sort of plan is being made, and then, right in front of us, the climax is being thrown full speed. It didn’t make a lot of sense to me at all. And to cap it all off, the climax wasn’t what I expected, but only some mediocre compromise that is meant to be ‘good enough.’

http://www.benjaminsolah.com/blog/?p=192

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Katsuragihoujo

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 26,2025

When Patterson writes a book they are fantastic. When he "co-writes" a book it's not him doing it and it shows. This is a perfect example. It's a good story but it's not a true James Patterson story and you can tell that quite easily in the writing and the way the story is told. It's too bad that he does this more often than not at this point in his career. Alone he is one of the greats but when he "co-writes" he is only as good as the co-writer.

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QuasarCasanova

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 26,2025

While I don't agree with vigilante justice, I am so glad that Jack was able to get Neaubauer and his cronies to confess to their crimes and to be held accountable. I am also glad Jack and his friends got off lightly with time served and six hundred hours of community service.

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Queen2408

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 26,2025

Huh!! I wasted almost a week for this book!! I could not switch to other book and at the same time this was not very interesting!!

If u want to waste some time read this book

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Gaboule

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 26,2025

A James Patterson book written by Peter de Jonge.
A little hit and miss which is unfortunately the case generally these days at times but overall I did enjoy it.

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