Southern Cross

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Summary: Not up to her usual standards
Review: Patricia Cornwell has been one of my favorite authors and I have most, if not all, of her novels. This one greatly suprised me. I have not previously found it to be her style to use language repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly that really was not necessary to get her point across. The story line was good and I think I'm beginning to like Hammer, West, and Brazil, though not as well as Dr. Kay. Please try to clean it up just a little.

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Summary: I found it so appalling, I am going to return it, HORRID!
Review: I signed in to the review list only to be able to add to many others, I see, the warning for those who have not yet purchased this book. It was a terrible dissappointment, and I will never purchase another Patricia Cornwell book again unless at least three of my closest friends give their approval. I do not know what happened to Patricia, but I suggest she get back on track to save her career and reputation. I am actually angry that she would subject readers to this mindless, insulting waste of their time. I only finished it because I felt she would redeem herself at least somewhere towards the end. It never happened. Shame on you Patricia!

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Summary: I couldn't finish this book, it was terrible
Review: I've read and loved all of Patricia Cornwall's books, even Hornet's Nest, but this one is terrible. I finally stopped reading at page 147. There are no strong or likeable characters in this book to make you want to keep reading through the pain, gore, and humiliation. Ugh!

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Summary: This was her worst. Jumbled. Mixed up. Pointless.
Review: I can't believe Patricia Cornwell could write such a messed up book. Useless pages of useless characters. The point of the story was somehow lost in this jumble of words. Get back to Scarpetti. This follow-up to the Hornets Nest is not worth reading.

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Summary: I felt like "The Little engine that could", trying to finish
Review: I anxiously purchased this book, anticipating another wonderful immersion into the world of Kay, her friends and her family. Instead I met characters called, Brazil, Hammer, West, Fluck, Cheddar, Bubba, Weed, Bean, Noble, Hanger, Pretty, Fling, Cloud.. do you see where I am heading with this? Their names were straight off of the top of her head, no depth no meaning, something from the Webster's dictionary. I only wish the story that resulted from this mishmash was as entertaining as good old Webster. Please Patricia, get back to your roots and refund our money. We have been rooked!!!

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Summary: The content was great, mistakes took away from story.
Review: The story line kept me wanting to turn the page, however the grammatical and spelling errors, were very hard to overcome. Having to reread paragraphs several times to get the full meaning. Most of her books I can't put down, this one the mistakes kept me from wanting to finish the book. I even had a friend to read the book to make sure it wasn't me, without telling her the problem, and she gave it back and said she wouldn't read another book by this author, if it was like this. Please let me know if anyone else found it hard to read for these reasons.

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Summary: Ms. Cornwell, please stand proud!!
Review: I am a big fan of Kay Scarpetta and love all of the Scarpetta books, but as a true lover of novels and the written word in general I have to look differently at Hornet's Nest and Southern Cross and I do hope more fans will read and re-read without angry eyes of the lack of Kay Scarpetta. Some of us, as I have read amongst these reviews, are turning our backs on one of our favorite authors because of her courage to give us something new. It takes courage and quite the imagination of a fine well known, award winning author to do this. I just hope that Patricia Cornwell fans and new fans in the making will not be so narrow minded to see the whole picture. Cruel and Unusual, Post-Mortem and The Body Farm are great (five stars to everything you've written Ms. Cornwell) and so are Hornet's Nest and Southern Cross.

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Summary: Terrible, and disappointing--probably her worst yet
Review: I agree with most of the other reviews, it's hard to believe this was written by PC, whose Scarpetta novel's have all been entertaining--I eagerly got this one from the library hoping it was more of kay, and found the same disappointing characters that were in Hornet's nest---get back to forensic pathology please---I could not finish this one, to dry and dull

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Summary: Awful.
Review: I can't think of a single good thing to say about this book. It was awful! I can't believe Cornwell wrote it.

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Summary: It stunk.
Review: Stink, stank, stunk. I am glad I got the book for a penny from a bookclub or else I would be asking for my money back.