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Is Delusional Worth Reading?

Ada’s Score

3.5

The eighteenth Michael Bennett outing sends Patterson and Born after an anti-government group under investigation, delivered in the franchise's signature short-chapter sprint. The plotting is efficient and the pages turn themselves, but characterization has long since calcified into shorthand. Bennett's enormous family functions as sentimental furniture rather than living texture. Competent series maintenance that asks nothing new of itself.

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Ada Brief

“Patterson's machine runs clean here, and the chapter-hooks do their mechanical job with no wasted motion. It is efficient. That is the highest honest praise available.”

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“Patterson's machine runs clean here, and the chapter-hooks do their mechanical job with no wasted motion. It is efficient. That is the highest honest praise available.”
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Delusional Review

Patterson's machine runs clean here, and the chapter-hooks do their mechanical job with no wasted motion. It is efficient. That is the highest honest praise available.

Rating: 3.5 / 5

Ada’s reservations

The prose is assembled, not written, and the characters exist only to advance the next reveal. Anyone wanting a human on the page will find none. This is product, not a novel.

Ada’s score reflects both strengths and reservations.

Book Details

Language: English
ISBN-13: 9780316569835

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Ada’s Score

3.5

Ada’s editorial score — not an aggregate of reader reviews.

Common Questions About Delusional

Is Delusional worth reading?: Patterson's machine runs clean here, and the chapter-hooks do their mechanical job with no wasted motion. It is efficient. That is the highest honest praise available. Ada rates it 3.5 out of 5.
What are the main weaknesses of Delusional?: The prose is assembled, not written, and the characters exist only to advance the next reveal. Anyone wanting a human on the page will find none. This is product, not a novel.