Crazy House

This was not what I expected from J Patterson. Not does the review describe the book. This is a story about a cult population where everything in their lives is controlled. From education, career, when to become pregnant to when and how to die. They do not know any other lifestyle exists. But when the children began to disappear, no one bothers to ask why or where they go. The children are taken to a former prison and put on death row. Forced to live in squalor, fight each other like heavy weight boxers, spend hours on education, and exercise used as brutal punishment. And just when it can't get worse, they are forced to watch each other be executed with no reason given. It's was not a pleasant listen for me and this I didn't finish.

Patterson needs to stick to the genre for which he is known. This book is way outside his area of experience. And it is apparent again and again in this latest book. I really wonder if he is just selling his name and letting anyone who has the bucks stick it on their novels. Disappointed.

Nothing. I wouldn't have purchased it if I'd known it is "young adult" and young girl oriented.

Take James Patterson's name off! Very disappointed.

Not if it "YA".

Waste of time and money. Violent.

Should have been a warning. Will think twice before ordering any more Patterson books. Either he is getting stale or his ghost writer has a problem

I don't know which I disliked more, the story or the narrator. It was so hard to get through, so juvenile and corny, and went nowhere. If I could go back in time and save myself from one mistake in my life, it would be downloading this book.

Not a book I would recommend. Weak by comparison to other Paterson stories. Disappointed. It went nowhere at the end.

Not fond of hunger games theme but story was interesting. Don't think I want to read the series.

This story is more for adolescents; I did not enjoy this book. I thought it would be a lot more imaginative and gruesome.

John Grisham

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Different from most of Patterson's work But a great suspended story from the first word to the last

A "Utopian communities or cells turn out to be anything but Utopian. Twin sisters grapple with first one sister disappearing & when the second sister searches for her she find herself in " death row" as well as her sister! Is there a way to escape the inevitable fate?

Yes

Very Much

It was full of twists and turns.

Surprise ending and many surprises along the way