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12 Months to Live: Jane Smith has a year to live, unless they kill her first (A Jane Smith Thriller Book 1) Kindle Edition
“Jane Smith is the best character we’ve ever created. Bar none.”
—James Patterson and Mike Lupica
Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century.
Actually, her charmless client might’ve committed several murders.
She’s also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt.
But Jane doesn’t have much time. She’s just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months.
Unless she’s murdered before her expiration date.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLittle, Brown and Company
- Publication dateSeptember 25, 2023
- File size8920 KB
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"Jane Smith is the best character we're ever created. Bar none."
-- "James Patterson and Mike Lupica"About the Author
Mike Lupica has been inducted into the National Sports Media Hall of Fame. He is an award-winning columnist for the New York Daily News and has written 17 New York Times bestsellers.
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- ASIN : B0BRJ6RF4P
- Publisher : Little, Brown and Company (September 25, 2023)
- Publication date : September 25, 2023
- Language : English
- File size : 8920 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 402 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #828 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #3 in Women's Crime Fiction
- #5 in Legal Thrillers (Kindle Store)
- #18 in Murder Thrillers
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James Patterson is the most popular storyteller of our time. He is the creator of unforgettable characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Jane Smith, and Maximum Ride, and of breathtaking true stories about the Kennedys, John Lennon, and Tiger Woods, as well as our military heroes, police officers, and ER nurses. Patterson has coauthored #1 bestselling novels with Bill Clinton and Dolly Parton, and collaborated most recently with Michael Crichton on the blockbuster “Eruption.” He has told the story of his own life in “James Patterson by James Patterson” and received an Edgar Award, ten Emmy Awards, the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, and the National Humanities Medal.
Mike Lupica is one of the most prominent sports writers in America. His longevity at the top of his field is based on his experience and insider's knowledge, coupled with a provocative presentation that takes an uncompromising look at the tumultuous world of professional sports. Today he is a syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News, which includes his popular “Shooting from the Lip” column, which appears every Sunday. He began his newspaper career covering the New York Knicks for the New York Post at age 23. He became the youngest columnist ever at a New York paper with the New York Daily News, which he joined in 1977. For more than 30 years, Lupica has added magazines, novels, sports biographies, other non-fiction books on sports, as well as television to his professional resume. For the past fifteen years, he has been a TV anchor for ESPN's The Sports Reporters. He also hosted his own program, The Mike Lupica Show on ESPN2. In 1987, Lupica launched “The Sporting Life” column in Esquire magazine. He has published articles in other magazines, including Sport, World Tennis, Tennis, Golf Digest, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, ESPN: The Magazine, Men's Journal and Parade. He has received numerous honors, including the 2003 Jim Murray Award from the National Football Foundation. Mike Lupica co-wrote autobiographies with Reggie Jackson and Bill Parcells, collaborated with noted author and screenwriter, William Goldman on Wait Till Next Year, and wrote The Summer of '98, Mad as Hell: How Sports Got Away from the Fans and How We Get It Back and Shooting From the Lip, a collection of columns. In addition, he has written a number of novels, including Dead Air, Extra Credits, Limited Partner, Jump, Full Court Press, Red Zone, Too Far and national bestsellers Wild Pitch and Bump and Run. Dead Air was nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best First Mystery and became a CBS television move, “Money, Power, Murder” to which Lupica contributed the teleplay. Over the years he has been a regular on the CBS Morning News, Good Morning America and The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour. On the radio, he has made frequent appearances on Imus in the Morning since the early 1980s. His previous young adult novels, Travel Team, Heat, Miracle on 49th Street, and the summer hit for 2007, Summer Ball, have shot up the New York Times bestseller list. Lupica is also what he describes as a “serial Little League coach,” a youth basketball coach, and a soccer coach for his four children, three sons and a daughter. He and his family live in Connecticut.
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Customers find the reading experience great and like the idea of the story. They also say the plot is excellent and keeps their attention. However, some find the writing style very hard to follow and irritating with staccato-type prose. Opinions are mixed on the reading pace, with some finding it fast and others saying it drags a bit. Customers are mixed about the characters, with a few finding them good and strong, while others find them confusing and dislikeable.
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Customers like the plot, saying it has lots of twists and turns that keep them guessing. They also say the courtroom scenes are riveting and exciting. Overall, readers say the book is fun to read and keeps their interest throughout.
"...Good story! A page turner!" Read more
"...As I said, this is an OK story and it kept my attention, but I longed for a page turner to read and found it in a Harlan Coben book that I stared..." Read more
"Started out pretty good, interesting plot and characters. Story seems to drag on and on. It seems to never come to a conclusion...." Read more
"...The character development was not the best. The plot was thin. You could firgue out the ending long before it ends...." Read more
Customers find the book a great read, with interesting plot and characters. They also say it starts out pretty good.
"...They are wrong.This is an OK book, but definitely nothing like the earlier books that Patterson wrote by himself...." Read more
"Started out pretty good, interesting plot and characters. Story seems to drag on and on. It seems to never come to a conclusion...." Read more
"Loved Jane, great Patterson book but I'm over the defendant. I'll still read the next one for the other characters." Read more
"Enjoyed reading this book. Ending had me baffled but that can be the sign of a good book...." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the characters in the book. Some find them good and strong, while others find them confusing and dislikeable.
"...Twelve Months to Live is a legal thriller with a strong female protagonist who controls and holds on tightly to the storyline...." Read more
"...It is a fast read and a page turner. Jane and Jimmy are enjoyable characters who work well with each other. Looking forward to the next book." Read more
"I was disappointing with this book. The character development was not the best. The plot was thin...." Read more
"...It features a very strong female attorney, Jane Smith, who’s hired to defend wealthy, handsome, scumbag Rob Jacobson charged with a triple..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the reading pace. Some find the book fast and easy to read, while others say the story drags a bit.
"...Jane effing Smith is a fierce one. Good fast read." Read more
"Started out pretty good, interesting plot and characters. Story seems to drag on and on. It seems to never come to a conclusion...." Read more
"Loved this book. It is a fast read and a page turner. Jane and Jimmy are enjoyable characters who work well with each other...." Read more
"...gets pretty muddled and hard to follow until the end which made the story slow and hard to read." Read more
Customers find the writing style very hard to follow, irritating, and hard to read. They also say the staccato-type prose makes the story slow and hard. Customers also say it doesn't seem like Patterson did the writing, confusing, and disappointing. They mention that it's tough going in the beginning and takes too long to get exciting.
"...I found this story at first to be irritating with its staccato-type prose, sentences that weren’t sentences...." Read more
"...The sub-plot gets pretty muddled and hard to follow until the end which made the story slow and hard to read." Read more
"Patterson is definitely a great writer. He has given me many hours of entertainment thru his work...." Read more
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Twelve Months to Live is a legal thriller with a strong female protagonist who controls and holds on tightly to the storyline. Even though she has received a deadly diagnosis with a year to live, she fights her way through a tough trial with a client she does not trust or believe, in his innocence.
Jane F. Smith, though having a plain and common moniker, is anything but. She takes charge in everything she does, never resting to take a breath. She even continues to train for a biathlon in her weakening state of health after chemo. There are two likable male characters that support her or at least try to throughout the grueling trial.
I found this story at first to be irritating with its staccato-type prose, sentences that weren’t sentences. As I continued to read, the prose smoothed out and I grew to respect and admire the character Jane for her stamina in the toughest times. This is definitely a different style of writing for Patterson as he pulls in other authors to combine their talents.
I did enjoy this book and look forward to the next in the series.
I have kind of stopped reading Patterson since he started writing with co-authors. Some books are better than others, depending on who the co-author is. Patterson says he likes developing plots but likes others to write them.
Patterson and co-author Lupica (and later their wives) have made ads where they talk about how this is the best book they have ever written. Their enthusiasm is so intense that I broke down and got the book.
They are wrong.
This is an OK book, but definitely nothing like the earlier books that Patterson wrote by himself. I only give it 2-1/2 stars.
Jane is a defense attorney who has been hired to defend a guy she is pretty sure killed a family of 3, but who says he's innocent. As she is about to defend him in court, she learns that she has Stage 4 cancer and is given 12 months to live. (Patterson says the other two books in the series will be called "6 months to live" and "3 months to live.")
There's a lot of killing, a lot of threats to be killed, and witnesses who can either provide her client with an alibi or make it sound like he did it. After a lengthy trial (during which her cancer symptoms plague her because she refuses to take chemo), a verdict is given and we still aren't sure if it is the right verdict or not.
As I said, this is an OK story and it kept my attention, but I longed for a page turner to read and found it in a Harlan Coben book that I stared when I finished this one.
The strength of the book is the pace and the characterization of Jane Smith, a vulnerable superhero.
The book rates four stars because, to facilitate the pace, there are too many murders and shootings. The point-of-view alternates between Jane Smith and her investigator, Jimmy Cunniff; sometimes this is confusing. Finally, the setting is the wealthy New York suburb of Nassau County, where apparently the biggest social problem is parking during the holidays.
Patterson has sold 425 million books. Read 12 Months to Live to understand his appeal.
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