Book Review: "The House of Wolves" By James Patterson

 If you're heavily into football it's a win! However, if you're not the 'betting kind' with limited knowledge on the owners/franchises/etc...but occasionally watch on a Sunday night then you might want to move on.

While I couldn't get into the sporting theme, I did enjoy the female protagonist Jenny, and her three brothers determined to take her off the 'totem pole' as the head leader of the Wolves Team as well as The San Francisco Tribune. An arse kicker in her own right! Tough as nails! Determined to get that VOTE!

I've always read Patterson for the thrills not the politics, not the sports, not the romance and so when he ventures off with other writers it's a hit-or-miss scenario for me. In this case, signing on with a sports journalist you'll get what you paid for & that's what we got here.

Much of the quote lines were redundant & in fact, quoted as such by the authors yet, the real gamer if you will was in the shocking sudden deaths of some of the football players. If only we stayed on that topic longer I might've bumped the rating.

The fact that these guys are having heart issues on the field from cardiomyopathy that's been in the news recently was the ticking bomb we needed.

In addition, the side step with the father's death and the constant Cantor interview requests was a bit sluggish.
There was some effort to re-right the ship from sinking but the helm went under after Thomas (one of the three siblings of Jack, Danny, & Jenny) was found dead at the stadium.

There's the typical and expected romp but nothing that went overboard in that sense followed by some drug issues but it all seemed splashed together rather than free flowing.

After that people are just coming out of the woodwork. Falling off cliffs, being blackmailed, accusations wildly thrown out there in the wild, all while banging out old grievances and gripes in order to knock one another off.
We do learn who killed who in the end with much surprise about the voting system but all in all for me it was just mediocre.

Hopefully, the next one will have more thrills/chills for those of us who enjoy that genre.