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Praise for The Blue Zone:
'”The Blue Zone” is a tense and chilling thriller with a whole lot of heart’ James Patterson
'Real fear, real thrills, real suspense…real good' Lee Child
'A spine-chilling mystery with a thrilling twist’ Cosmopolitan
‘A thriller with genuine feelgood factor’ The Times
News of the World
`All the hallmarks of the master - quick-fire action, believable characters, and a none-too-taxing storyline. Perfect holiday fare'
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the kind of book you store away in a holiday house for a mindless vacation read. It's a perfectly acceptable thriller which reads like a cross between Harlan Coben and Joseph Finder. Nothing outstanding, one you'll forget shortly after you've finished it, but perfectly readable.
Charles Friedman is a hedge fund manager who is killed in a terrorist attack in New York City. His grieving wife Karen starts receiving threatening messages and realises that Charles had a secret life that she knew nothing about. Meanwhile local cop Ty Hauck is investigating a hit and run accident which happened on the same day as the terrorist attack. It appears that there is a connection between the death of the local youth and Charles Friedman.
Andrew Gross's writing style is very easy to read and skips along at a good pace, although he does tend to over-explain what everyone is thinking and feeling at every opportunity. Some of the writing is cringe-inducing (my favourite being the "throbbing" in Karen's womb which drives her wild during a sex scene). The storyline also unfolds without a great deal of suspense, without any significant twists and with zero plausibility. So why three stars? Because despite all these flaws, I enjoyed it. It held my interest, kept me turning the pages and didn't demand too much thought. A perfectly acceptable, mindless holiday read.
Charles Friedman is a hedge fund manager who is killed in a terrorist attack in New York City. His grieving wife Karen starts receiving threatening messages and realises that Charles had a secret life that she knew nothing about. Meanwhile local cop Ty Hauck is investigating a hit and run accident which happened on the same day as the terrorist attack. It appears that there is a connection between the death of the local youth and Charles Friedman.
Andrew Gross's writing style is very easy to read and skips along at a good pace, although he does tend to over-explain what everyone is thinking and feeling at every opportunity. Some of the writing is cringe-inducing (my favourite being the "throbbing" in Karen's womb which drives her wild during a sex scene). The storyline also unfolds without a great deal of suspense, without any significant twists and with zero plausibility. So why three stars? Because despite all these flaws, I enjoyed it. It held my interest, kept me turning the pages and didn't demand too much thought. A perfectly acceptable, mindless holiday read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It's an OK plot let down by poor writing, editing and too many coincidences.
Charles Friedman has to take the local commuter train to New York because his car is being serviced, it just so happens that it's the object of a terrorist attack (who? why? we never find out).
Charles usually sits just where the bomb went off, but it just so happens he steps to the other end of the carriage at the right time.
A local man who just so happens to work on Charles's car is the son of another character down in Florida who has seen too much and is making trouble for - you've guessed it, one of Charles's shady deals.
Couple this with bad dialog (as detailed in several other reviews) and a Mills and Boon type love story and it's a mess.
Gross and Patterson writing together usually do a pretty good job, but it looks like they need each other to do so.
Charles Friedman has to take the local commuter train to New York because his car is being serviced, it just so happens that it's the object of a terrorist attack (who? why? we never find out).
Charles usually sits just where the bomb went off, but it just so happens he steps to the other end of the carriage at the right time.
A local man who just so happens to work on Charles's car is the son of another character down in Florida who has seen too much and is making trouble for - you've guessed it, one of Charles's shady deals.
Couple this with bad dialog (as detailed in several other reviews) and a Mills and Boon type love story and it's a mess.
Gross and Patterson writing together usually do a pretty good job, but it looks like they need each other to do so.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Throughly enjoyed Blue zone but like other reviewers i was let down by this novel. The first half was quite slow going and when you put it down it was hard to get back into it. However in the second half, the book picked up pace and it was much more enjoyable, I would definately read this novelist again but just hope he keeps some originality and doesn't get repetetive.
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brilliant
Couldn't put this one down. I have read a few of his books that he co-wrote and loved the fast paced style. This was the best so far. On to read the blue line now.
Published 6 months ago by simonchap
Gross 2
So good it was difficult to put it down. Also easy to read due to short chapters.
Published 20 months ago by David Hendren
Slow, annoying, repetitive and rambling.
As others have said, the addition of the addressee's name to almost every second line of dialogue was incredibly annoying. Read more
Published on 30 Jan 2010 by Ariane5
More Patterson style rubbish
I have had the misfortune to have been given a James Patterson and now an Andrew Gross paperback to read on my commute. This book reads like it's been written by a schoolboy. Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2010 by Mr. M. Chalk
Good start, shame about the rest
Again, my first Andrew Gross novel though I have read some of those he shared with JP. The style is similar with plenty of action to keep the reader interested. Read more
Published on 28 Dec 2009 by Michael Watson
absolutely fantastic
a great read fantastic grips you from start to finish a must buy i have boughtothers he has written from reading this one worth the buy
Published on 21 Sep 2009 by Ms. Susan Pascoe
If you love Patterson, you will love Gross
If you love Pattersons books you will love Gross (a co writer on a couple of Pattersons books)although the storylines are completely different the style of writing is the... Read more
Published on 9 July 2009 by D. Bierton
dark tide
An excellent book, which only came to my attention by the authors association with James Patterson. It kept my attention throughout.
Published on 9 July 2009 by James A. Farley
Enjoyable
I quite enjoyed this book. I found it to be entertaining and enjoyable, it's not a great literary masterpiece but then that's not what I want from a book, I just want something... Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2008 by crime reader
The dark tide Andrew Gross
Good thriller, dialoge a bit repetative but I had to finish the book, so many books I get to 100 pages and think why am I reading this? do I care what happens? Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2008 by Mrs. P. A. Heaney
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