Ooh boy I did not like this. It started off as maybe a three star read, and I thought I'd finish to see the end but boy I liked it less and less the more I read. Still finished though, so I guess the joke's on me. 

The characters are one-dimensional, even the POV characters. Talking about that - I hated the mix of first and third person perspectives. I did kinda like Maggie's perspective. 

Alex Cross is not believable as a father and I did not think he made a particularly convincing black man either: he felt very 'written by a white man' (granted, I am also white, but I've read plenty og black characters written by black auhtors and this read very differently). Neither does he seem like a very good detective, all of the case breakthroughs are basically strokes of luck, or the work of other teams.

The villain is also not very complex, he is the Evilest evil that ever evilled. Maybe scary, but not very interesting ya know.