Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night ~ James Patterson (editor)

Funk Rating: 7 out of 10

This is not a "book"; it's an anthology of 32 new short stories by top thriller authors such as Lee Child, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Eric Van Lustbader and David Morrell. There are some very good stories in here, but I must admit that putting a book like this on my nightstand had a SERIOUS impact on my reading pace. Why? (1) It's huge, so you can't really take it on a plane, and (2) you never read more than one story a night as there is no real page turning capability between stories, and sometimes you can't even finish one story in a night. So, that my dear reader is my excuse on why you haven't seen me blog much lately!

OK, with that defensive whine out of the way, I will say there are some fun ones in here (and only a few duds). The authors are all major names and the stories don't suffer from bloat that sometimes occurs when they have to write hundreds of pages. Many of the stories take existing characters or minor characters from prior novels and they fill in some gaps and further the character development.

This isn't a bad book by far. But be forewarned the impact it will have as it sits on your nightstand night after night and week after week :)