When the Wind Blows
James Patterson (Reviewed by The Editor - Rebecca Brown)
2003 Little, Brown & Co
ISBN: 0446607657 Amazon's price is: $7.99
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Frannie O'Neill, a lively veterinarian running her animal hospital in Colorado, is still plagued by the unsolved murder of her doctor husband. After another murder a handsome & troubled FBI agent arrives in her life. Then, in the woods she glimpses a wondrous sight & it changes her life forever.
Yes, I did it! I picked up another James Patterson [Hide & Seek also reviewed]. This one I enjoyed about the same. When the Wind Blows has a premise that promises thrills & spills. Somehow it just doesn't take flight.
I do like James Patterson's fast reading style, & although his imagery is wonderfully effective he has left gaps between the connections of dots that left me wondering what happened.
I liked both Frannie & Kit: uncomplicated, humorous, deeply wounded by life & ready to heal. They are both troubled by what they're finding out; suitably gullible yet quick-witted & are willing to risk it all.
James Patterson's descriptions of Max, her brother & all her endangered friends, are riveting. We are given strange yet intense glimpses into the minds of children raised in a very different way.
The premise in When the Wind Blows is not so bizarre; I think of Romania's children & I realize that just thinking up such medical transformations makes the path that much shorter.
There are some wicked ones in this thriller which actually could have been science fiction, wicked ones who shouldn't be given the time of day let alone a carte blanche to dabble in the creation of life. There are some loose ends that left me smacking my lips, um...what happened to...?
Funnily enough I'm saying it's well-done even if the final chapter is pure "feel-good" stuff raising even more questions! When the Wind Blows reads like a screenplay storybook & could have been twice its length!
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