{"id":31362,"date":"2017-08-07T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=31362"},"modified":"2017-08-01T15:55:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:55:41","slug":"mistress-by-james-patterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/mistress-by-james-patterson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistress<\/I> by James Patterson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>James Patterson is an author that I recently started\u00a0listening to\u00a0quite frequently. One of my favorite things about\u00a0James Patterson’s books is that\u00a0he partners with a lot of\u00a0different authors. Those partnerships\u00a0mean that all of his books have a\u00a0distinct feel to them and are not formulaic. With every Patterson book I pick up, I know I’m going to get something unique. I really enjoy that.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Mistress<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by both Patterson and David Ellis was my latest\u00a0listen and I enjoyed it. When this book first started, it instantly reminded me of You <\/em><\/a>by Caroline Kepnes, a book I blogged<\/a> about back in March. Both books begin with a noticeable creep factor. Mistress <\/strong><\/em><\/a>starts with the main character Ben breaking into a woman’s apartment and rummaging through her belongings. My mind instantly went, “Oh no! We’ve got another obsessed kidnapper\/stalker love story.” I braced myself for that inevitability and kept reading. Boy, was I wrong! This book may seem like a creepy stalker story, but Ben is way more complex than I initially thought.<\/p>\n

Ben is consumed by his obsessions and his racing thoughts. He may seem like he’s got it all together, but once you’ve been around him for a while, you notice that he has four major obsessions: motorcycles, movies, presidential trivia(which he spouts out frequently thanks to his father) – and the beautiful woman whose apartment he was in named Diana Hotchkiss. When Diana is found dead outside of her apartment shortly after Ben leaves it, Ben’s obsession spirals out of control. He must find out what really happened to this beautiful woman who was the love of his life.<\/p>\n

While Ben digs into Diana’s death, the truth of his life begins to leak out. The origins of his obsessions, how he makes his living, and his reasons for behaving the way that he does all start to be revealed.\u00a0 Ben discovers that Diana has been leading a double life, something that he never expected and she never mentioned. He doesn’t know how to handle that information. The more secrets he uncovers, the more he realizes that he really didn’t know Diana. Someone doesn’t want Ben digging into Diana’s life and sets out to stop him. Ben has to decide what he’s willing to risk to find out the truth about Diana and what he is going to do to ensure that he and his sources stay safe and, most importantly,\u00a0alive.<\/p>\n

I’m glad I decided to stick with this book. I was tempted to give up\u00a0at the beginning because I assumed I knew what the book was going to be about, but I was wrong. Part of my enjoyment of this book was the narrator. He did an excellent job describing Ben’s eccentricities and differentiating between the present and past. James Patterson has yet to let me down!<\/p>\n

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