Ali Cross by James PattersonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
After nearly thirty years writing mystery novels with Alex Cross, James Patterson now gives us a spinoff for the kids, centering on Alex's precocious son, Ali - already shaping up to be a great junior detective in his own right. And for his first case, it's naturally pretty personal - one of his best friends, Gabe Qualls, for whom Ali is one of his few friends both IRL and in the popular video game Outpost (a kind of mashup of Minecraft and Fortnite), has gone missing, and literally nobody is putting more effort into finding him than Ali. And Alex, of course, since the elder Cross gets quite a few interludes in third person - unusual since he's a first-person narrator in all his stories, but then again, it's Ali's turn now. Patterson's no stranger to writing from a precocious kid's POV - look at Max Ride or Rafe Khatchadorian - and Ali Cross, not that I expected any less, is more than worthy of membership in his bibliography. Good thing is, Patterson's already planning a series out of this - can't wait to recommend it to all the kids!
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