James Patterson has been recommended to me time and time again. I saw this, and it sounded interesting (no pun intended). Needless to say, it was not. This was a waste of a purchase. Most of my annotations were complaints about the writing style—which utlized entirely too many ellipses for my liking, but I digress—characters, plot, or all of the above.

I don't mind unlikeable characters. They're fun! They're interesting! These were not. These characters were frustratingly cliché and felt straight up petulant at times. Perfectly two dimensional with no development. Sometimes it seemed as though they slipped out of their own barely defined characters, an impressive feat, I'll admit.

This book was insipid, and repetitive, and utilized every damn cliché it could. I guessed the "plot twist" in the very beginning, and from there all of the supposed twists landed flat. Not to mention that the ending came completely out of nowhere in some last ditch effort at horror.

Why everyone is regarding this book so highly in the reviews I'll never know. The only aspect of this I enjoyed with the lack of romance and the Noise in principle.