I don't usually care for James Patterson's stand-alone books, but since I enjoyed "Honeymoon," I thought I'd give this one a try.All through the book I found it to be pretty boring -- it moved very slowly with really the same thing happening over and over. Then some small thing would happen which served no real purpose to further the book and which was really never explained and we'd go right back to Tom and Kate working on the case.The ending was a surprise but unbelievable. And after it was sprung on us, it seemed to go on way too long until it was finally wrapped up.In the future, I'll stick to the series.