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Title: Season of the Machete Author: James Patterson Rating: Not available Avg. Score: 2 Submit Comment Hits: 79

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• Posted on 2008-09-03
  James Patterson book
  
  I was sure that I ordered a hardcover book and received a paper back. Very disappointed. Also, the book is not very good. I usually love the books by James Patterson, but I'm having a hard time finishing this one.
  Score: 1
• Posted on 2008-05-25
  Why did I read this again?
  
  Shall we try to find the good things with this book. Let me see..... That is a very good question. The characters are lame and 2D. the plot is not thought out in the least and everything in general is just bad. The only possibly good thing is that you never know who to trust or ho not to trust, which was what the character's were feeling. I could give numerous examples of how the story was bad but I would prefer not to bore you will details (and it would give quite a few spoilers). The ending left way too many holes that were never filled and questions unanswered. Let's just say this is possibly my new worst book ever read.
  
  Besides just generally bad writing, this book bordered on the edge of sacrilege. Creating a new virgin Mary and savior of the people (especially when the author only addresses one of the prophesies) was just disgusting. (And the Catholic church is the only one that responses to this possibility and sends people to investigate. Christian, Baptist, Lutheran and all other religions are not even mentioned.) Also, there are two sex scenes.
  
  With perhaps a year of editing, this book could be publishable (with the sacrilegious part) but even as a book without religion, it was still lousy.
  Score: 1
• Posted on 2008-03-29
  Season of the Machete
  
  I am a huge Patterson fan and have read over 20 of his books. I have to say this one was the toughest one to get into. It is confusing in the beginning and not one of his normal "page turners". Stick with it for the first 50+ pages and it gets better. All in all, not one of his better stories.
  Score: 2
• Posted on 2008-03-25
  No Stars Would Be More Appropriate
  
  If zero stars were available, that is what this novel would have received from me. I took along 3 books to read on vacation this year (my only time to read just for pleasure) and wasted 2 days reading this book. Being a fan of Patterson's current books, I thought I would read some of his older works. This book left me with the question "Why did I waste my precious vacation hours reading this?" I concur with another reviewer who stated that the dating of events is really strange. The epilogue has the exact same scenario as the prologue (with the same characters) but is dated 2 years later and these characters have all been horribly killed in the book, so it leaves you trying to figure out what happened since these characters clearly died earlier but are here again committing the same murders. What's up with that? I think I am pretty astute when reading the detective genre and only am occasionly surprised at a conclusion, but this one just left me wondering was some part missing? Was there some kind of clue that those murders didn't happen? I finally decided that it was just a poorly written book. I hadn't bother to read the reviews until I returned from vacation and then found that others had the same problem with this book that I had. If I had read the reviews before my trip, I would have taken a different book and not wasted my time on this read.
  Score: 1
• Posted on 2008-03-15
  Season of the Machete by James Patterson
  
  This is probably the only Patterson book that really freaked me out. Quite a bit of gory material, but still a book you had a hard time putting down.
  Score: 3