Search - When the Wind Blows (When the Wind Blows, Bk 1)

QUICK read (just like the cover says) Evil mad scientists, murder, love and young people that fly like angels, what more can you ask for?

Wow, this book is bad. Awkward writing, doubly awkward romance, minimally believable scenario. Could someone explain to me why they didn't go to the press earlier? Or how killing a bunch of high-profile doctors is supposed to help the bad guys stay undercover?

Taking a break from his phenomenally successful Alex Cross series, James Patterson's When the Wind Blows is as much child's fantasy as it is an adult nightmare. The novel moves away from the gritty Washington, D.C., setting of the Cross books and follows the daily life of Frannie O'Neill, a Colorado veterinarian. After the mysterious death of her husband several years before, Frannie retreated to an isolated life in her Colorado practice. But a series of bizarre events suddenly disrupts her lonely routine. On a personal level, she is shaken by her new tenant--Kit Harrison. Kit's too handsome and too friendly and he's a hunter (or so Frannie thinks). He's also recovering from a devastating personal tragedy, and, as Frannie eventually learns, he's really an FBI agent using his vacation to follow a crucial lead. But Kit isn't the one that's got Frannie concerned. As she says after stopping her Suburban one night to check out something on the side of the road: "What I saw was way beyond my abilities to imagine, beyond my comprehension, my system of belief, and maybe beyond my ability to communicate right now. The little girl's arms were folded back in a peculiar way, but when she lifted them--feathers fanned out." The girl is Max, and the mystery of her wings leads Frannie and Kit into a massive conspiracy involving secret genetic research and the scientific manipulation of the human species.

Another James Patterson thriller. I read these regularly. Recommend

This book was not Patterson's standard fare - the writing was awkward and hard to process at times, the dialogue wooden and un-realistic, the characters hard to understand or even like. The plot is hard to believe and hard to move forward at time, and overall not work my time.

While Patterson still makes a quick read with 'When the Wind Blows' you have to be willing to turn your brain off first.

When Dr. ONeil, a veterinarian in Rural Colorado, who has been widowed, meets an FBI agent, also a widower, pages start turning while they both begin to uncover leads in a diabolical and inhuman plot involving modern science and research, gene splicing, ect. that involves high ups in the medical, scientific, legal, and government fields.
There are magical ideas involved, which did not appeal to me as much as books with more "realistic" plots do. Patterson continues in his "page turner" manner, and breath taking twists. Some probable like this more than I did.