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Summary: Loved The Plot
Review: I found the plot keeping me on the edge of my seat. The best plot in the last several books. Surprises were around every corner and the plot most original. The one thing I do miss is her earlier writing ability. It seems that as authors get well known the publishers want books as quickly as possible and the writing suffers. I think the publishers need to realize that the public is willing to wait for a well written novel.
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Summary: More Vintage Scarpetta
Review: More vintage Scarpetta from the new mistress of mystery. This is the best thriller from Cornwell for some time and is a real cliffhanger to the end. The character of Carrie Grethen is Scarpetta's most chilling adversary and fans know from the start that something startling and disturbing can only come of her re-appearance. Keeps you guessing to the end and die-hard fans will applaud another masterpiece. New book due soon? If it's anything like this, can't wait...!
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Summary: Good reading, you will learn something about "Fire"
Review: I have read every book by Patricia Cornwell. Point of Origin was interesting for me because I had no idea of what goes on to determine how and where a fire starts. As for the story, it was her typical style, but I had some disappointments regarding Dr. Kay Scarpetta's relationship with Benton. But maybe she and Marino can hook-up now.....LOL. I guess I will have to wait for the next book. If you are a follower of these books, do not hesitate to read it. bye
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Summary: Too much angst mars Scarpetta series
Review: Having read all the Patricia Cornwell's previous Kay Scarpetta books, I was nonetheless ambivalent about starting her new one, Point of Origin. Although they are dark of necessity, the series had become depressing because nothing good ever happens to anyone! All of Kay's relationships -- whether with coworkers, her sister and mother, significant other Wesley Benton, investigative sidekick Marino, or beloved niece Lucy -- are fraught with tension and mistrust. Everyone seems depressed and unhappy, including Kay herself. And for good reason -- life is always dealing Kay, her friends and family, a low blow. Before I started this book, I told my husband that if something good doesn't happen to somebody in this one, I wouldn't be reading another one. I closed the cover today -- Kay Scarpetta, adios!
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Summary: Time to retire Kay until you can write her well again....
Review: I'm almost finished with this book and don't even know if I want to continue reading it. This has been thoroughly disappointing. As an addition to an extremely strong series it's weak at best. As a stand alone book if you've never read any of the other books in the series, it's almost unpublishable. The entire plotline took an excruciating amount of pages to develop and when it finally did it was anti-climactic. Not a page turner by any means.By the way, the introduction of the Teun character is about as see-through as it gets. Okay, Patricia, we all get it. Kay is going to make it all the way to midlife and then discover she's bi-sexual. Before reading this book I would have given the author more credit than to borrow so heavily from her own life instead of relying on creativity and imagination. Sad. I will not be racing out to buy anymore Kay Scarpetta books.
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Summary: Not Quite as Exciting as Earlier Works
Review: While I enjoyed this book, it was not the sit on the edge ofyour chair book. Nothing new, no new villians, not an original story.Some of the story line is very sketchy. I do like the returning characters, Pete Marino, who is very down to earth... While this book is not as good as the rest, I will still look for future Cornwell books, but hope for more excitement, as in her earlier works.
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Summary: Poignant, powerful, and personal thriller.
Review: Though Patricia Cornwell's latest Scarpetta novel is perhaps not as tightly spun in plot development as some of the earlier books, it offers intense interest to those fans of the series who find the inner lives of the main characters as compelling as the forensic detail. Cornwell's fictional universe has never offered easy escape from the real terrors of life -- be they criminal, political, or interpersonal -- and I think this unflinching moral seriousness has always been among the greatest strengths in her work (as it is, not coincidentally, among Dr. Scarpetta's greatest strengths as a character). Though there's a very wrenching death in this novel (expect to find yourself in major mourning, readers, for the character in question is very dear to our hearts!!) I suspect that the greatest discomfort will be felt by readers who are uneasy with Kay's profound concern for and engagement with her troubled niece Lucy; and frankly, that seems to me to say more about readers' prejudices than any weakness in the representation. I say prejudices, plural, because I think it's not only that homophobia is triggered when a major character in a series is a lesbian, but something maybe even more discouraging to an author like Cornwell, whose career suggests she is as intellectually gifted as her protagonists. Many of us who consider ourselves less gifted have a hard time taking seriously, let alone permitting ourselves to empathize with, the very real agony -- and often dysfunctionality -- that's unfortunately endemic to the lives of people born with genius-level intellect, especially if they're female in a culture that still hasn't quite worked through its heritage of male dominance. (One element of Kay's and Benton Wesley's relationship that has been especially poignant is his brave and tender patience when Kay lashes out at him in for male privilege he did not ask to be born with.) And one of the most powerful ongoing relationships in the Scarpetta series IS the one between Lucy and her accomplished aunt, because at the heart of it is, of course, their tendency both to attack and to cling to the self each sees painfully reflected in the other. Yes, they're very privileged people; but they're also, and I think very understandably, very troubled and lonely people. Point of Origin features dialogues between Kay and Lucy that are strikingly powerful in conception and execution, which ring exactly true in expressing the psychological dynamic between them. Speaking of loneliness, consider Pete Marino, who despite the stereotypical elements of his initial presentation in Postmortem, has developed into a more and more poignant character with each novel, as he soldiers on in a lifelong professional partnership with a woman who returns his love but not his desire. It's lonely being a woman who is brilliant: even lonelier to be less brilliant and hopelessly in love with her. I expect there'll be further developments here as well, and look forward to them. (Put that boy on a Pritikin diet and get him a nicotine patch, if necessary, for he is dearly loved, and I don't know if I can stand it if the ever-threatening stroke takes him from us.) The novel's not perfectly wrought -- exposition's a little sluggish this time out, and there are potentially gripping elements in the scenario (especially the fires themselves, one of which Kay might've found herself caught in for great dramatic effect) that Cornwell doesn't choose to exploit. But this is a haunting book with genuine depth and bite to it, in the tradition of The Body Farm and From Potter's Field, which I'd consider among her very best.
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Summary: This was one of her goriest books ever!
Review: I have read and loved Cornwell's books from the first one she wrote, but with each one she seems to be losing her touch. This latest one was the times because of the unnecessary blood and gore she seemed to find necessary to throw in just any old time!!!
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Summary: Suspenseful making it extremely Hard to put down!!!!
Review: Patricia Cornwell has produced yet another suspenseful and dynamic novel. Her books have always been terrific reading for me and I for one have a significantly hard time putting them down. The suspense and weaved web of clues keeps you guessing. Another great suspense thriller!!! She has become my favorite author and I have recommended her books to all my friends!!!!
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Summary: The Big Yawner...
Review: After reading ALL of PC's prior Scarpetta books starting with Postmortem, this is the very first one where I found myself reading ANOTHER book in the process! Pretty much a complete waste of time and effort. It's a good thing PC doesn't make alot of California book signing appearance, because after reading Point of Origin, I wouldn't bother getting it signed...I think I'll start reading more M. Connelly, RN Patterson, James Patterson, Caleb Carr, Ridley Pearson, and P. Margolian etc.
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