It’s really hard to summarize a James Patterson book. There is just so much detail and too much to one story to just comment on what you were reading that day. You can actually read his books within a couple of days and not know what to write on a blog. That’s the great thing about books; everything plays as a movie and someone would have to be there to understand what is going on.
I love how his books do not just tell one side of the story at a time. I’m reading Hide & Seek. It is about a woman, a celebrated singer/songwriter, which has been accused of killing her husband. The chapters go back and forth between the two characters’ stories and even the stories of characters to come. There is a whole lot of twist and turns in this book. It makes you question men, women who murder in self-defense, and what life is like when you are famous.
It is easy for a famous person to get love, but hard to keep it. Maggie Bradford, the singer/songwriter, has not had it easy. She killed her first husband in self-defense, the second husband died of a heart attack, and the “third” was killed by her in self-defense also. If you read the book, you would know why I placed third in parenthesis. Her second husband was the greatest love she had ever had. He was genuine and honestly cared for Maggie. You begin to sympathize with Maggie throughout the story, because of the men that enter her life and the only good man that left her life.
“Patrick had that familiar, wry look in his eyes, but suddenly they changed. He stared past me.
Then a strange sound rose up from deep inside his chest. He let go of my hand. He just let go of me. Simple and uncomplicated, as out love had been. I screamed as I started into Patrick’s eyes. Oh, God, please don’t let him die.”
The simplest loves are out best loves. Those are the ones we are supposed to cherish, because there is a lot of doubt that they will end. Taking each day as it went and enjoying the times spent is how we should live our lives. Maggie learned to appreciate what life gave her and what an affect Patrick had in her life.
