How disappointing, Mr. Patterson

I just finished reading The Lake House by James Patterson. It is one of those books that I really enjoyed while reading it, and couldn't wait to finish...and then I get put off by the ending.

Why? (spoilers ahead) Firstly, they were using the hateful omniscient first person narrative, while also writing the story from at least three other characters' point of view (but in the third person). -_- And towards the end, they decided to have the narrator "go to heaven" (which she actually dreamt) to make you think she died.

That is still forgiveable...unless if she really died, because I would really cry foul about a ghost writing a story. But there are very bad loose ends hanging at the end...for example, the bad guy had created three clones of himself, and one of them was killed in the "action" scene. The clone told the character who killed him, "I'm just a clone". And another character saw two of the bad guys at the same time (one original and one clone, I suppose...or both clones?) And the point just wasn't brought up again after they left the place. They just went to live peacefully in the Lake House, and was so surprised when the bad guy came back one day. Whaaaaattt?!?!

That ending spoiled the book for me. :(

Oh, and the bad guy died (this time he said that he was the original, not a clone). But what happens to the other two clones? No idea...

Another thing: The synopsis mentioned a Kit Harrison. There is a Kit in the book...but his real name is Thomas Brennan. So where does the name Harrison come from? There is absolutely no mention of it in the book. Even the synopsis of When the Wind Blows (its prequel) mentions Kit Harrison, so I searched a little and found this. Turns out that in the first book, Thomas Brennan used this name. But why keep the name on the second book when it is no longer used? -_-

There is another point that I missed while reading the book (I was too keen on knowing what happens next :P ), but when I read a review of the book (at the first link at the top of the post), it came back to me. The review said, "the children all "run" away to live in the woods and eat grubs just to get away from regular human society. Next thing you know, they're back at home without any sort of explanation." It's true, when I think back on it...


Another reviewer said that the story is similar to When the Wind Blows. I wouldn't know, because I haven't read it. And when looking back at my old post (the one linked above, second link in the post), I noticed that a commenter had mentioned this book. 


At the end of the book, there was an excerpt from Sam's Letters to Jennifer. It looks good, and makes me want to read more... but wasn't that the case with The Lake House too?


Maybe I should just stop reading James Patterson...