Confessions of the Dead

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	Author:	James Patterson and J.D. Barker
	Published:	July 9, 2024, Grand Central Publishing
	No. of Pages:	457 (way too many)
	Cover Price:	$26.50 Hardcover, $14.98 Paperback, $12.99 Kindle

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Anyone who loves stupid plots, lots of violence and blood, death and unnecessary murder, poor writing style, and unbelievable supernatural happenings, will want to immediately pick up James Patterson’s along with J.D. Barker’s novel, Confessions of the Dead. All kinds of things are happening in the small New Hampshire town of Hollow’s Bend. People are acting strange and out of character: a librarian tries to burn the library down, another librarian purposely cuts off his fingers with a paper cutter, hundreds of dead crows show up at a diner, then other places in the town, people are targeting their husbands, and a mother overdoses on her medication and drowns her children- the list goes on and on. Nobody knows why the names of residents are written on the arms of some, and as they slowly die, the names have lines through them. The first 200 pages are nothing but awful things happening.

The negative things never stop. The novel is very dark, and the characters are definitely unlikeable. Halfway through this poorly written and unexciting novel, I just gave up and couldn’t read anymore. The storyline is awful, it does not flow, and the suspense does not build, but gets very old. The story is disjointed, and readers will find they don’t care about any of the characters and really don’t care why these awful things are happening in this small town.

While Patterson is one of the most popular bestselling authors of all time, it is surprising that he would put his name on this crap. I would not recommend this novel to anyone.



Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.