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Summary: a disappointment
Review: Started off interesting but then bogged down for several hundred pages. From page 300 to the end was excellent but a little too little, a little too late. A sad showing from an excellent author. She wrapped up the ending without tying up loose ends or giving any answers as to why or how. Once you figured out who it was, the novel was over.
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Summary: AAARGH!
Review: Did she lose her writing ability, her soul and her editor in the past few years, or did I just wake up to what my reading friends have been saying for years? Her characters have 1/2 dimension, her plot development doesn't, and her understanding of human behavior, systems, and cities water skis. What a jip!
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Summary: A truly awful book from a once-good author
Review: I used to enjoy Patricia Cornwell...her writing was technical but interesting. She used to be able to craft a strong suspense plot and keep you guessing for awhile. This is, without a doubt, one of the worst books I have ever read. The story is rushed, the writing is abysmal (get her to a creative writing class-stat!), and the ending is so absurd that you become angry she takes her readers for such idiots. Don't waste your time or money on this one -- there is nothing of value in it whatsoever.
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Summary: A disapontment in the Scarpetta series.
Review: When I first discovered the Kay Scarpetta series of books byauthor Patricia Cornwell, I read the first five or so in quicksuccession and eagerly awaited the next in the series to be published. However, the last couple in the series have been real disappointment. I'm glad I waited for the paperback to come out and didn't spend the money up front for a hard cover. The story was predictable. We can't expect the long-suffering Kay to actually be settled or content with life can we? There is just so much personal angst in all of her relationships - with Lucy, Pete, and of course Benton. I never got caught up in the mystery and suspense like I did in the first novels. All of the background writing focuses on Kay and her troubles, not character development of other key players. I'll wait for the paperback of the next in the series if I decide to read it at all.
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Summary: Thrilling, fascinating, and a heartbreaker
Review: As usual, I found the trials of Kay Scarpetta to be fascinating and harrowing. I agree with the other comments....Kay is not a happy-go-lucky person. If you want a book where you can place yourself in the shoes of the hero/heroine and feel brave/exciting/brilliant/whatever, then Kay Scarpetta is definitely not for you. She is a tortured soul, as are many people we meet every day. Her relationship with Lucy continues to be fleshed out ... I want more resolution here, but only (I think) because in real life uncertain relationships are so stressful. The loss of a main character (I won't expose this important plot development, even though another already has)moved me, literally, to tears. It was wholly unexpected, but in retrospect I can see the reasoning behind it. I sense Kay will go on to new relationships in future books.I wholeheartedly recommend this book, as well as Cornwell's previous works. And I can't wait for the next one.
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Summary: On Patricia Cornwell In General
Review: I don't know what is worse, being so predictable with a mystery that the reader figures it all out halfway through, or being like Patricia Cornwell and randomly pulling a suspect out of thin air at the very end. Cornwell has great strength with her forensic detail, which I find fascinating, but she's weak at building a novel with suspense and closure. I can ponder on the killer all I want, but in the end I know it will be someone random, perhaps not even previously introduced into the book.
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Summary: Quite Likely the Last Cornwell book I'll read
Review: Have my tastes just changed over the last few years or has Cornwell just gotten lazy in her writing? I was so disappointed in this book that I can't even consider Hornet's Nest an exception any more. While Point of Origin wasn't quite as downright stupid as Hornet's Nest, I find Cornwell's habit of getting Scarpetta out of all of her relationships by killing off the man a little disturbing. And my God, does this woman have bad luck or what? Do this many serial killers really take a personal interest in the Medical Examiner? It has just become too ridiculous and far-fetched and I'm bored with all her pathetic, predictable characters. I agree with the reader who said that it is time for Cornwell to start paying attention to the reviews. Pretty soon people will quit giving her another chance.
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Summary: hmm. climactic? anti-climactic? you be the judge...
Review: this is a GREAT read. Kay and Lucy's arch-nemesis, Carrie Grethen, returns! BUT, as in all Cornwell novels, the book ends before you realize what happened. if you're waiting for an actual confrontation between Kay and Carrie, stop waiting. it doesn't happen. and if I've spoiled the ending (which I actually haven't), then you will be missing a great book, classic Cornwell, just seems like the ending is only two paragraphs long...
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Summary: Good book, though not her best work
Review: I've read just about everything of Cornwell's and while this was not her best work, it certainly was good.
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Summary: very disappointed
Review: I did not like this book, Dr. Scarpetta's character is very negative of everything and everyone, including her friends and family. I have been a fan for a long time and I was really suprised and disappointed by this book.
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