A Couple of DNFs

What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dad?
Jasper "Jazz" Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say.
But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could—from the criminal's point of view.
And now bodies are piling up in Lobo's Nod.
In an effort to clear his name, Jazz joins the police in a hunt for a new serial killer. But Jazz has a secret—could he be more like his father than anyone knows?
--From Goodreads

What can I say? The summary sounds awesome right? But the main reason I couldn't finish this novel was the pacing. I felt it extremely slow, and quite frankly, a little lacking in the drama. I thought it was going to be a pretty creepy novel from the get go, but maybe my creepy-ness factor is a little broader than I thought. It also felt like it took a week to read the first hundred pages, which should not normally take that long for me. I felt the narrator was a bit too obsessive about becoming a killer and thinking what a killer would do next. I know that Jazz wanted to catch the killer to prove that he wasn't like his dad, but at times, it felt a bit repetitive. It's a shame, I really wanted to enjoy this novel, but I just couldn't connect with any of the characters, and lacking in overall excitement. I guess I expected it to be more creepy than it really was for me.

Until the day I met John Smith, Number Four, I'd been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive.
Together, we are much more powerful. But it could only last so long before we had to separate to find the others. . . .
I went to Spain to find Seven, and I found even more, including a tenth member of the Garde who escaped from Lorien alive. Ella is younger than the rest of us, but just as brave. Now we're looking for the others--including John.
But so are they.
They caught Number One in Malaysia.
Number Two in England.
And Number Three in Kenya.
They caught me in New York--but I escaped.
I am Number Six.
They want to finish what they started.
But they'll have to fight us first.
--From Goodreads

I absolutely enjoyed the first novel. I loved the narration of John Smith and his side of the story. The second was a bit difficult to get through with all the story jumping. This one, I could barely get past the first few couple pages. First, I was disappointed that someone else was narrating again. I felt there was too much going on. Maybe I'm a picky reader, but sometimes you know after a couple pages that you're not going the novel. This was one of those novels. I just wish that the series had remained with the same narrator than with the constant switching around.