Author: James Patterson
Date Published: September 2007
Book Type: Thriller / Drama
The warning may not have been clear, but for Kristin, she should have realized it when her dead father began talking to her. In Patterson’s You’ve Been Warned, the story focuses around a girl who lives her life through a lens. Photography is her passion, so she takes pictures of everything she sees. She has another passion as well; she is in love with a married man and together they are having an explicit affair.
It starts when she passes a hotel on her way to work and sees there has been quadruple murder. Naturally, she begins snapping photos of everything—the police, the onlookers and the four body bags being put into ambulances. To her surprise, she wakes up the next day to find that no one has any recollection of the murders even though her pictures are still very real. Can pictures lie?
She begins seeing strange things, such as a mysterious detective that seems to be stalking her. Her dead father tracks her down and speaks to her, and yes, he is still a ghost. Despite all the warnings and the fact that she is generally a very nice person, she continues to be a naughty girl when it comes to her hunger for Michael, a married man who convinces her he will leave his wife. Things become even more sinister when she lives specific days, only to wake up to find they haven’t actually happened.
This book is one of the most mind-numbing books that one could read. Comparable to movies like “23” or “The Butterfly Effect”, this book needs to be read a few times to actually understand what is going on. As it turned out, the murders that had taken place in the hotel were Kristin, Michael, his wife and a hired hit man. Kristin has gone to hell for her naughty deeds and is being forced to relive the same week over and over again for the rest of eternity—a fate worse than death.
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