Reading Blog Post 2 - Hope For the Book

I have started reading more of the book Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson and this week it has not gotten any better really, but i do have hope for it! The author is just taking a while to introduce everything, which is actually well written, but just not interesting. This is why I think the book will get better; this and the fact that James Patterson, i've heard, is a wonderful author. There are numberous characters and it is fun getting to know each and every one of them. They all seem so different, but also they all seem to have a big secret. I don't know what this is yet, but there is a lot of foreshadowing.

So far in the chapters that I have read this week, I have noticed that intertwined into the chapters there are mini chapters that have confessions about Tandy's parent's murder. So far these have not told me much of anything, but that her brother has lots of anger for his parents. A quote from the book supports this. "He latched on to the trophy, like Matty should hand it over. 'Remember, you owe everything to us,' he went on. 'Your speed, your strength, your endurance. Your career. Your money.' That did not go over well with Matty. To say the least. 'I didn't ask for what you gave me,' he said through clenched teeth. He slammed his fist on the dining room table and I jumped as a crack appeared, sure his fist was going to get  sliced to ribbons. Matty was so angry I don't think he even wou;d have noticed. 'You created each and every one of us to live out one of your freakish childhood fantasies!" You see, Matty had just won the Heisman trophy and this quote from the text makes me think that his parents are some sort of weird people programming their kids. Or not that, but something like it.

They have a robot in their home that they created to look and talk like a human and it almost looks real. So could it be that the robot (Robert) could just be a prototype to their children? Also Tandy says in one of the confessions that she came home screaming that her parents had killed her sister. Could they have done that? Could they have been mad that their first child was not perfect? Tandy did say on page 16, "Our parents wanted us to be perfect." Could the murder of their parents had been for revenge on what they had done to their children? I will have to read on.

Reading Blog Post 1 - Confessions of a Murder Suspect

Just starting a book: This week i started the book, Confessions of a Murder Suspect By James Patterson. The book starts off with the main character talking to the readers as if they were standing right in front of them, having a conversation. I like this because it helps with feeling connected and invested in the character's story right off the bat. On the first page only, we know this; the characters parents have died. The main character has a brother who seems distraught about the situation, but also kind of like he knew it was coming. He shouts, "My parents were vile, but they didn't deserve to be taken out with the trash!" Then we find foreshadowing as the character explains that both, the first part and last part of the brother's statement was true.

I have only read the first three chapters of this book and suppose it to be a mystery, obviously. The first three chapters go by so quickly, in a rush. Her parents are killed, the police come, and they are questioning her all within the chapters. There were only four people in the house when her parents were killed, not including them. This includes the main character, Tandy; her two brothers, Harry and Hugo and Samantha, her mother's personal assistant. Nobody knows who did it and they are all suspects of the crime. It seems to me that in the future of this book there is going to be a huge secret about Tandy's parents. I think this because of all the foreshadowing and the fact that the book is a mystery. Also they live in a fancy apartment that seems to be aquatic based and Tandy even says that her life is far from normal. The book kind of reminds me of an episode of Law & Order so far! The conflict in this book, i would think, is basically surrounding who killed Tandy's parents and what they were invloved with.