Lifeguard - James Patterson

Lifeguard is an action thriller that begins as the reader would love it to: the average looking beach lifeguard meets beautiful blond, plans to start life afresh and wins the affection of the blond. However, the plot takes sharp turn for the worst. Things go wrong in the most complex manner imaginable, leaving the reader open to make a number of guesses to the mysterious identity of the mastermind and to chronology of events. As with a majority of fictional books and movies, the page-turner ends with bliss and the case solved by the protagonists. Nevertheless, as the case was coming to a close, the author fails to depict any trauma that the lifeguard might have felt knowing that a wealthy couple and his father have inevitably caused the deaths if his closest childhood friends. Predominantly, the book’s selling points are beginning and ending in the most ideal and fantasised manner and the plot is full of suspense and as unforeseeable as cardiac arrests.

Rating: I give this fictional book 2.5 out of 5 books