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Some books I would like to read after Best Sellers is over is, Room by Emma Donoghue Unwind by Neil Shusterman 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks And then there were none by Agatha Christie Artemis Foul by Eoin Colfer Miss Peregrines home for peculiar children by Ransom Riggs The curious incident of the in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

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Confessions of a Murder Suspect book 3 review

"I have some really bad secrets to share with someone, and it might as well be you-a stranger, a reader of books, but most of all, a person who cant hurt me. So here goes nothing, or maybe everything. I'm not sure I can even tell the difference anymore." [excerpt from first page.] What secrets do you have to confess? The angel kids have to confess their secrets to find out who killed their parents. They were found dead in their bed but no evidence of break in. That means the one of the kids killed them, right? Was it the spiteful older brother, what about the one who wasn’t loved as much? The one who was in trouble last, who’s also the smartest? Or the youngest who is strong, and angry? It’s a twisting road keeping you turning each page with anticipation, who did it?

The Confessions of a Murder Suspect takes place in Manhattan, New York.  On morning Tandy Angel wakes up to a knocking on the door and opens it to a detective and cop she’s confused.  As they barge their way into the apartment like all “bad cops” and they tell Tandy that her parents are dead. “I had no idea that my parents were dead and that we would be the only serious suspects in a double homicide. I was in my last moment of innocence.” Because of no one broke in, the only people in the apartment are the suspects. Tandy knows she was last to see her parents and she can trust no one. Not even herself . This isn’t really about murder, but really about how actions can affect other people. When the parents died, they left their kids with nothing; they had no money, nothing. Tandy is telling the story and she has a way with words, she pulls the reader in keeping you flipping page after page. “But who am I kidding? No one in the Angel family was ever innocent.”  Tandy always has a hint of regret in her voice but why? Especially in her confessions, it’s pretty obvious. What does she regret though?

The Angel family is pretty cold. In their house hangs a picture frame with a note from their grandma reading, “I am leaving Malcolm and Maud $100, because I feel that is all they deserve.”  Imagine if your parents left you $100 after they had passed away, cold right? Malcolm and Maud never told their kids that they loved them either. Harry, Tandy’s twin feels this the most. He isn’t as smart as Tandy or as strong as Huge (the youngest). Harry is more musical and artsy but his parent’s don’t think that’s important. What if your parents didn’t tell you that they loved you or were proud, pretty sad? I think so.

The dialogue is very strong in this book and makes it all the more better. James Patterson is very good at making it a page turner and something new each time. After a couple chapters, Tandy would have a “confession.” She would tell us something that was important to the story and wouldn’t tell you everything leaving you with questions forcing you to read on.  The way the story is told is from Tandy’s point of view but I really like the way she tells it. She tells the story as if you were a friend or someone actually in the story. “Can you imagine the words you’d use, dear reader, to tell your family that your parents had been murdered?” Check out this cool link about the Confessions series.

This book is defiantly an A. It’s well written and a fast read, which I like. It always has you guessing what is going to happen or what door will be opened next. Who doesn’t love a good mystery? James Patterson is a well-known author and this genre made him famous, so of course he’s a good mystery writer. But this really isn’t your regular murder mystery, like the maid did it or the butler did it. It is different. Overall , it’s a good read and I highly recommend it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blog Post 9 Characters

In my book, the Confessions of a Murder Suspect, The Angel Parents are found dead in their room with no evidence of break in so who did it? The only people in the house at the time were the 4 kids and their nanny, Samantha. Tandy tells you the story from her point of view and what happened. I think that she is a likable character because she isn’t always sweet and caring and good like you think a protagonist would be. She is a suspect of her own parents murder, but is still trying to live her everyday life. I think that just because the book has a likable character doesn’t mean that its an easy book, or an easy read. There’s a lot of things that wouldn’t be very clear to you, until the end of the book or until Tandy gives you a confession. Some things still aren’t clear to me and hopefully they will be explained further in the second book. Tandy is a likable protagonist but is also the antagonist because maybe she did kill her parents. As a reader who liked Tandy I hoped that she didn’t kill her parents because I liked her as the protagonist, but if she did, I think the story would be just as good either way. Weather you think that likable characters makes for a boring and easy book or if you don’t mind, I really enjoyed this book and thought that Tandy was a good character and made the book interesting.

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Blog Post 8 Should a memoir be true?

In my mind, I think that a book should be 100% percent true to be a memoir. If they say it’s all true shouldn't it really be true? How can we trust that other 95% or 90% of the book is true when they are lying about parts of it? Like Frey said that he wasn’t involved in the killing of the girl with the train but it still affected him. So the difference between lying and the truth could be life or death. I don’t think that half-truths are okay eve if it is a good story, if its considered a memoir I want full truth, if I wanted to read a fiction book, I would have gone to the fiction section at the store. If one author thinks that they can bend the truth other will continue to do it and then books will all become fiction because people will bend the truth just get the book published. After Frey was turned away, he came back saying it was a true story to get the book to be published and sold. I think that we do need lines between genres. When I go to a book store I go to the fiction section because I like fiction and that’s what I continue to read and enjoy. I think that books should be labeled fiction and non-fiction because if you go to the store to buy a true story and its fiction, why isn’t it in that section? I think that it matters because everyone likes different types of books and if you enjoy true stories and are told this is a true story, but it’s not, you might feel ripped off.