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Dream On (2000)

by Aaron M. Patterson(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0984190236 (ISBN13: 9780984190232)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

series

Mark Appleton Thrillers

review 1: "Good read; somewhat irritating; ultimately disappointing."I read the "UNCUT EDITION".It's all very well, so, one gets all the 'original' words. But books are edited for a reason, maybe to reduce the length, but certainly to improve readability.In this case the editor was right, it needed editing. Firstly I doubt that the book contained much more than a dozen additional pages before the editing, secondly the main reason for editing was readability, and finally the extra bits were annoying and did not add to my enjoyment.However those are fairly minor complaints.On the whole the book wasn't bad. It continued to develop some ideas contained in his first book that were interesting and suggested future possibilities. But here are the problems: firstly it seemed to me that Aaro... moren Patterson ran out of ideas, and secondly suffered difficulties thinking through the situations. I'll show you why.Not that I want to give too much away BUT: There is a part when Mark rescues 'a person' (I'm trying not to give too much away here..), but then in a most unprofessional way he completely ignores the strong possibility that the bad person, having proved that nothing Mark does is unexpected, might be wearing something to resist his bullets; a vest or something. So, after he temporarily 'deals' with her he becomes truly unprofessional: he doesn't check her in ANY way, he doesn't tie her up or give her a 'double tap' or SOMETHING.. (it's Mr Patterson's story after all, not mine.) THEN, he calmly LEAVES the person he's rescuing and wonders off because he hears a funny noise or something.. The result is he causes himself, and the exceedingly sick 'rescuee' (my word), a great deal of 'trouble'.I won't continue here. But frankly it's WEAK and the story really hits a low point here. Maybe Mr Patterson suffered a personal tragedy (my condolences if someone died..) but his ideas ran dry. The writing was weak, the reasoning, and the way the events unfolded, were weak.OK, so that's how the story goes and I guess a reasonable writer could still have developed something more from this point.... EXCEPT the author REALLY runs out of ideas here! So what does he do? He brings in:[Trumpet blast here]**THE SUPERNATURAL**After all, what else CAN an author do when he places his hero in an IMPOSSIBLE situation where he will DEFINITELY die? And, moreover, die because of REALLY dumb mistakes, as shown earlier?Frankly any author succumbing to the supernatural to get a 'good' result to his book, especially in the genre that I THOUGHT I was reading, really has very little imagination. Indeed maybe he's showing his true colours..Obviously I cannot read more books by this author.
review 2: Sequel to Sweet Dreams Mark Appleton and Kirk Weston are after the missing General Taras or Red Dog. He is looking to take over the United Stated. You also have Emily who is after Mark. Emily is Chaos, she is bombing different locations. The WJA is after trying to correct what is wrong. But is Red Dog too much for them. This was a page turner as was the first one. The ending a bit unrealistic but good, nonetheless. I enjoy his writing and look forward to the next book. less

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