IRB Reading Response 1st Draft

      I 'm reading this book called Roses are Red, By James Patterson. I first found out about this book because I was exploring the other teachers blogger pages and I came across Gigi's blogger and a lot of others. She was talking about this book and how good it was. So I decided to give it a try and I have to say it was ridiculously good.

       This book is all about a guy who calls himself the Mastermind. I really believe that he is a mastermind by the way he plans out the bank robberies and killings that he orchestrates. It is also about this guy named Alex Cross who is trying to figure out who the mastermind is and catch him.


        I really like how the author, James Patterson, writes the book. The first chapter is in the point of view of someone working for the Mastermind, then the rest were of the point of views of Alex and the Mastermind every other chapter. I also like how even thought this author is this bestselling author for adult books it wasn't hard to understand what was going on at all.

       While reading this book it was frustrating and thrilling not to know who the Mastermind was. I like mystery books that have a huge surprise at the end. That it wasn't predictable like some mystery books.  I like how I wasn't able to figure it out until the end when the book told you who the Mastermind was. Also a lot of mystery books I read I sometimes get so annoyed at the repeating cases or something in the book that  I just look at the end of the book to see who or what is causing the problems in the book. This one I didn't even think about doing that. I liked not knowing who it was and I felt like I was trying to solve the case with Alex and Betsy.  The reader of the book found out certain things before Alex and Betsy because we have both the Mastermind and Alex's point of view but we both didn't know who the mastermind was. But of course I couldn't really do anything if I actually did find anything out, I just had to wait with anticipation while the characters in the book tried to solve certain things by themselves.

       I think that the ending was the best (don't worry I'm not going to spoil it for you). It was just so shocking I didn't know how to react to it.

       This book was so good I think that anybody would like it , I loved it. I like all kind of fiction books, but I have to say I never really gave the mystery books a try and this being my first mystery book that i have read was a good start, and I think that I would like to read more of James Patterson books.