Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | Private |
| author | James Patterson |
| ISBN-10 | 0-099-55006-7 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-099-55006-8 |
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| date | 2019-Sep-30 |
Private is a top notch private investigation enterprise. The best on staff, the wealthy and the rich on the client list. It's kind of busy at Private, as they are working several urgent cases at once.
The people in the story work on several investigations at once and the book does no deep dive into any of them; they all are presented too shallow. And it's not only the number of parallel cases being worked on, it's also other sidelines which distract: the romances of Jack Morgan, his differences with his brother, his past, some Mafia business. Certainly these ideas could all be built up into individual interesting stories of a series, but trying to fit it all into a single book of just under 500 pages simply does not give any of the ideas enough room. As a result, the story feels crowded and rushed and the main characters are too good and efficient, so they can solve everything before running out of those almost 500 pages.
