: When the Wind Blows
Author: James Patterson
Fascinating concept: a group of renegade geneticists create a new species of human, children with wings and the ability to fly. One of their experiements escapes and they must hunt her down (and destroy all witnesses) to protect their research. Unfortunately, it sounds more exciting than it is. Patterson throws in an unconventional FBI agent that’s a cheap copy of Fox Mulder from TV’s The X-Files and a beautiful veterinarian who falls in love with the agent and just happens to know a lot about genetics and birds. Basically, the whole thing’s contrived, routine, and the ending makes you scratch your head and say “Why didn’t they do that in the first five minutes???” Still, the book has good pace, and it’s interesting, but like Chinese food, it leaves you hungry a few hours later.
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