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Summary: WHY? ~ A TOTAL ANTI CLIMAX...! WELL BELOW PAR..
Review: I agree with almost every post regarding this novel.
Having read ALL of Patricia Cornwell's works this was a real dissapointment.
The ending ~ from Chapters 122 to 124 were like a student hurring to finish an exam essay!
I would have thought with a 3 year wait since 'The Last Precinct", we would have not have been subjected to such a lack lustre ending.....
The book itself was an average read ( up till Chapter 122 )as it tied all the well known characters together, however it ended so badly that I would advise anyone contemplating reading it to not waste their time....
Miss Cornwell is this really the best you could do?...
Please give your readers the respect they deserve.
Andrew N ~ Australia
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Summary: Just plain awful
Review: Truly, one of the worst books I have ever read. This was just plain awful. It was so disjointed, vague and just plain unbelievable that I, for the very first time in reading an offering from Patricia Cornwell, really struggled to finish it. I kept turning each page hopeing against hope that it would get better and it didn't; it got progressively worse. The only good thing I can say about the ending was it was swift!!Ms Cornwell; Please go back to the formula that worked because this style of writing clearly isn't and your fan base is telling you this loud and clear. A one star rating is being very generous.
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Summary: This is the last Cornwell novel I'll waste my time on....
Review: Such a disappointment. Fame and a well-known name do not always equal quality. The book got off to an okay start and perhaps even had potential to go somewhere. (I am being generous.) But it seemed like Cornwell just got tired of writing and scratched out a third-rate ending. I'm looking for a different author.
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Summary: Save your money
Review: This book was extremely disappointing.The story took a long time to unfold but it never really developed. This book is totally unlike the rest of the series.
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Summary: Time to kill them off and move on
Review: These characters are getting very tiresome. They have been reduced to poorly drawn cartoon images - only capable of extremes of emotion. It is impossible to relate to any of them, or care what happens to them. The plot uses a resurrected dead man to advance the cause - but the villians are the same ones we've seen over and over again. Dull.
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Summary: A horrible disappointment
Review: As an avid Patricia Cornwell fan since Post Mortem first hooked me, I have finally been put off completely by this latest travesty. I wasn't too thrilled with the whole Wolfman saga to begin with, but I was willing to give Blow Fly a chance because I wanted to see Scarpetta get on with her life after Benton's demise. She was a true, albeit complicated, heroine who I rooted for in every novel, but now I find her utterly tiresome. I cannot understand or identify with the person Lucy has transformed into, either. I agree with the previous reviewer who felt that Cornwell spent too much time investigating the Jack the Ripper murders and getting wrapped up in her celebrity to do justice to the protagonist who made those opportunities materialize for her in the first place. Blow Fly lacks character development, plot detail, and the ending read like Cornwell had better things to do than finish the book. The only thing I can think of to compare it to is Thomas Harris's god-awful Hannibal, which was nothing more than a big middle-finger salute to his devoted readers who wanted to see more of the anti-hero he created. Patricia Cornwell would do her readers a great service by getting back to her Post Mortem roots and coming up with a new protagonist we could truly cheer for again. Kay Scarpetta's not just washed up in Virginia anymore.
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Summary: Englishteachersnightmare
Review: Judging by the number of typos and missed grammaticals, even Cornwell's editors couldn't bring themselves to actually read the thing. Too much talk about the past with very little action bearing on the story. New characters are too thin. I've read better "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" essays. Didn't someone notice there was no ending? It just stopped. Be glad to relax with a real Cornwell novel. Get this girl an editor!!
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Summary: Writer, forensic "expert," TV personality -- what's next?
Review: Patricia Cornwell may try to do it all but it's patently clear that she can't. Something had to give and it did. Her writing in this latest book is AWFUL. The book is a confused mess of espionage, past books, revisions, off-screen action, threads that go nowhere, and new, very unattractive sides to old characters. By now everyone knows the Bobby Ewing-like moment of resurrection of a former (formerly dead) character. Compare this nightmare mishmash to the elegant All That Remains. Based on true, unsolved killings of lovers, the book was great. Autopsies, crime scenes, forensic anthropology at the Smithsonian; a first rate crime novel. Blow Fly? Doesn't even earn its name. There's one insane scene where Lucy kills a character (illegally and without justification). For no good reason, she tried to throw off the time of death -- thus the introduction of blow flies. But the scene never makes sense. The murder was senseless. The scene was just filler. Just like PC these days -- all filler, no quality.
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Summary: Patty Does Dallas
Review: At least when they brought back Bobby Ewing from the dead there was no pretense at anything other than bringing up the ratings. Maybe next time the author wants to kill a character it will be the "Uber Niece," Lucy -- and she will stay dead. Boring boring boring.
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Summary: Ack
Review: Well, this book completely threw me off. I've read almost every book Cornwell ever written, and I've always felt pretty confident in her vision of the Scrapetta series. This book however - what is this?! The characters seem to have the same names, but act totally unlike themselves. The Benton thing seems to come completely out of the blue, and reminds of a soap opera plot. New characters pop up and get pages and pages written about them, while Kay is barely mentioned. Lucy doesn't seem to be gay anymore. The psycho killers are conveniently explained, their psychological damage is easy to figure out, since they seem to be written as if the writer followed a text book. The language is crude. I just couldn't bring myself to care about any of the things happening and the plot seemed rather ridiculous. Never thought I'll find myself regretting spending money on one of Cornwell's books, as I've always considered her to be a gifted and talented writer. Go figure.
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