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Summary: Reasonably good
Review: I basically found the book a good read. I agree with some of the other reviewers that Kay and Lucy are a bit too good to be true and high and mighty. One comment is that it's obvious PC doesn't like fat people much!! Notice how good Ol' Kay eats healthy all the time and is thin (same w/ Lucy, Benton).........and at the same time many of the unpleasant characters are fat (Carrie's lawyer for instance). Marino is a eat/smoke/junk food stereotype, big and jolly, good at what he does, but not as good as good ol' Kay!!! ~~Joan
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Summary: Another Great Scarpetta Story
Review: Yet another great book from Cornwell. Although I must admit that this book dragged on a little in parts, the overall was great. Lots of details and keeping you on the edge of your seat. I look forward to her next.
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Summary: Want to be shocked to hell?!
Review: No it's not her best "Thriller" but it is her best "Tragedy"! I CRIED, THEREFORE I LIVED!
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Summary: A VERY DEPRESSING BOOK
Review: I thought the author came across as a very depressed and disturbed person. I have read all of her previous books and really enjoyed most of them. This book had nothing new in it, a lot of rehashing of her earlier plots. The ending was very ho-hum. This is the third boyfriend she has killed off in her books, no wonder she is depressed.
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Summary: I've moved onto other authors now
Review: I have read all of PC's books in the last couple of months. I really loved them until this last book. I have gotten tired of Lucy, tolerable of Kay at times, frustrated with Marino and adored Benton. I found this last story line hard to follow and there is not really any closure at the ending. I probably will not read any further ones. She has a new book out, I hope she has started a new story line. Kay Scarpetta needs to be retired!!
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Summary: this book derserves more than 5 stars...there are NO words!!
Review: This was PC best work yet. You need to have a stomach for it. She shows how the mentally ill can manipulate people, how the legal system excepts certain criteria. I love medicine though I honestly could NOT perform autopsy. I give credit to people who can perform this task with great detail as there is always as story as is stated in this book and PC others as well. I highly recommend this book to anyone who feels that details are a part of life. To the people who felt this story was old - I can only suggest you actually go out and look around at the world. Go to the mental hospitals and prisons. Open your eyes...I salute Patricia Cornwell....!
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Summary: OUTSTANDING! One of Cornwell's best.
Review: I'd put off buying Point of Origin because of the mixed reviews but broke down when I needed a good holiday read. I could not put it down and read it in less than a day. Cornwell is back in form. This is one of her best.
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Summary: Trite, tired characters who've become UNINTERESTING.
Review: Like some of the other reviewers, I'm really disappointed with this latest from PC. Her early books were worthy of a best-seller list, but certainly not her latest few, this one included. I'm really sick of the Benton angle...why can't we have people who work together without the romantic angle? In the early books, he was happily married...suddenly we find him and Kay with grand passion for each other which takes away from the suspense angle. I liked her early books for the suspense. If I want romance, I'll read romance novels. I'm also sick of the Lucy angle. Kay is really neurotic about Lucy. She's grown and has her own life; PC, give it a break. I think PC needs to develop new characters. Marino is the only one I still like. Fortunately, I checked this one out from the library and didn't waste my money. It's not worth it. Post Mortem was a great book. What happened to you, PC? Fame catch up with you?
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Summary: The author likes her characters a lot better than I do.
Review: I was disappointed by this work and am getting tired of Scarpetta and Lucy -- I am particularly tired of hearing about how wonderful they are, perfect in every way, but unappreciated by everyone who is either jealous of them and/or evil. I suspect these characters are autobiographical, in which case there's a fair amount of narcissism coming out. I wish Cornwall would bring us a mystery with characters she's less in love with, and who are less condemning of everyone who falls short of her idea of perfection (that is, your average citizen).
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Summary: They just keep getting better!
Review: This is one of PC's best books. I cried when Benton was murdered by the villians. It shows that there is no such thing as a perfect world. I was hoping that KS and Benton would develop a relationship, but it makes the reader feel the sorrow and anguish that KS and Lucy feel when he dies and how Lucy thinks it's her fault. Pete Marino is a very believable character with real feelings, but he chooses to keep them inside just like most men. I love learning about how the dead can talk to people through the use of the latest modern technology. I personally can't wait for her next novel. Patricia Cornwell makes her characters come alive and jump out at you from the pages of text. Her style is of compassion, fear, hatred, love, taste, touch, and smell. Kay is all these feelings wrapped into one woman. Who among us isn't a little of all these emotions?
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