Death of the Black Widow

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I enjoyed this book however I enjoy more typical detective novels and I didn’t really enjoy the sci fi parts.

I was really impressed with how Death of the Black Widow unfolded as a story, especially as Patterson and Barker went out of their way to make this standalone read as enticing and epic as possible. Walter ends up serving a great role as the central protagonist of this story, and I found his entire character arc to be extremely well written and cleverly exposed. Overall a very good quality service from this seller and I would not hesitate to recommend this seller.Thanks to how the book progresses, you get to see the entirety of Walter’s life unfold, from his young days as a rookie cop, all the way up to his present, when an older, dying Walter attempts to bring his great obsession to an end by finally catching the woman who has haunted him for decades. The creator of Alex Cross, he has produced more enduring fictional heroes than any other novelist alive.

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In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money. Death of the Black Widow is a monster of a read, clocking in at 517 pages (minus the About the Author section and sneak peeks at other Patterson books). Six years later O'Brien is promoted to homicide detective and at his initiation party he swears he sees her on a date at a local restaurant. I loved the "fantasy" aspect of the novel, when it took us into the world of make-believe, and blended what we know as real with what our brain struggles to makes sense of.

This book sucked me in just like the main character Walter was sucked in —- I never expected a James Patterson book to take such a “zombie like” turn. No, what bothers me is that the novel has to "[borrow] bits and pieces from other genres" to make the story work.This grossly oversimplified understanding has created many complexities in our lives and taken away from us the very fundamentals of the joy of living. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together.