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Summary: There should be a NO star category
Review: Read 80 pages, couldn't finish the book. I've already crossed Patricia Cornwall off my list of authors twice before, but somehow I think she's going to go back to the good mysteries she used to write. In the case of this book, I was out in a store and a list showed this book high up on the Best Sellers List. HOW IN THE WORLD DID THAT HAPPEN? I'll never buy another book without ready the reviews on Amazon. This was trash.
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Summary: Her worst novel
Review: Difficult to get into, and when your done, you want your money back.
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Summary: What has happened to Patricia Cornwell?
Review: Life is too short to read this book. I am so disappointed with the latest Scarpetta installment that I have taken to writing this - my first ever online review - as a warning to other Amazon users NOT TO BUY THIS BOOK. Do not part with your hard-earned cash. It's not worth it. Patricia Cornwell - you used to be great. But without a doubt this is the worst novel I have ever read. PS I only gave it one star because there isn't a zero star option.
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Summary: Fantastic Book
Review: As usual Patricia Cornwell does it again. With mystery and intrigue she lights the pages of her books up. Once again capturing you in its story line. I love this authors work. Also recommended: Life Of Pi, Nightmares Echo, Angels and Demons..and of course everything Ms. Cornwell does
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Summary: One of the worst books I've ever read
Review: I couldn't believe how bad this book was. I wanted to give it no stars, or negative stars, but that's not an option. As the other posters have noted, there is essentially no plot, and what plot there is remains unresolved. It is a series of disconnected ramblings. Truly, truly awful.
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Summary: Don't take it too seriously
Review: I'm at a point with Patricia Cornwell where I now pick up her books for strictly entertainment while secretly hoping she'll surprise me by writing a good mystery that keeps me up until 2am turning pages. She used to. These characters were so fantastic (as in unreal) that there were a few times I laughed out loud. Lucy, still fiercely independent and a loner, now running a secret organization, for "select clients" and using weaponry and electronics that even the military doesn't have??!! Right. Oh and by the way, she happened to make a fortune in the stock market and she's stupidly wealthy too. And Benton, who Scarpetta grieved for until I wanted to slap her, is alive and of course, brilliant as he is, has spent his years underground planning his comeback. One unchanged character is Marino, who is still unkempt, unhealthy and secretly carrying a torch for Kay. Oh and he walks around scowling and making sarcastic remarks as usual. How about Kay spending more time solving creepy mysteries? And how about less time on everyone's personal issues and over-the-top lifestyles? I miss page turning at 2am!!
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Summary: where's the ending?!
Review: I agree with a lot of the previous posters. I was really eager to buy this book after being a Scarpetta fan and loving most of the previous titles. I finished the book last night and was totally disappointed with the ending (or lack thereof). It was like a book version of what the Matrix Reloaded was for film, just something shoved in the middle to tie up loose ends and serve as a vehicle to promote the next installment. Disappointed.
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Summary: Warning Scarpetta fans!
Review: I just finished "Blow Fly" and can't believe how awful this book was! I was bored through most of it with the incredible descriptions of computer intelligence and weaponry! There was no real plot here - it just rambled around and around. Wrapped up in a few pages at the end with lots left unfinished and I am not the least bit interested in the next book because it will have to wrap up all the lose ends that left this book most unsatisfying. What a disappointment for a Cornwell fan.
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Summary: Black Notice Part III
Review: In my review of The Last Precinct, I described it as Black Notice Part II. Here is Part III and it bears more resemblance to Friday the Thirteenth Part III, than to the decent complex plausible work Cornwell gave us early in her career. Cornwell has created some good characters. In this book, while many of them are back, their connection to the plot is questionable. It is as if someone has a list of characters and is seeking to work them into some sort of plot. One has to wonder if this is Cornwell's work or that of a ghostwriter. There is no love for or attention paid to any of them. Here we have Lucy, Pete, Rocco, the werewolf, Benton, Jaime, Jay, Bev, and wait...Benton? He's dead! Well no, he is resurrected for some unknown reason in this tale of unfinished business. To make it worse the werewolf has escaped from Texas's death row (yeah right) and may have freed a necrophile and cannibal named the Beast who was in transit to get the needle. They just disappear, undoubtedly to return in an even worse sequel. By the way, Cornwell describes a corrupt member of organized crime who is the United States Attorney in Baton Rouge. U.S. Attorneys can be jerks, they can be political, and they can be boorish. What they cannot be is members of the Mafia or its French equivalent. Fortunately, this particular character is the most poorly developed character in the book. Let's give this series a rest before Rocco, Jay, and Bev return from the dead. One resurrection is enough.
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Summary: Double the pages, we need more character development!
Review: It COULD have been good. I wish so much that Ms. Cornwell could recapture the essence of the first three books in this series. I thought this book was the one to do it, but I needed much more character development. I'm not sure if the book got the life edited out of it, but so much seemed to be missing. I just don't care about these people like I used to, and want to again! Even the big surprise wasn't enough to hold my attention. I hope so much she will continue to write this series and rekindle the fiery magic from the beginning, starting with the complete removal of the "wolfman" please.
How about bringing the first lover back from the dead too? Working on the past of these characters would be fine, but not this brutal, sick, freaky creature, that frankly, I can't, or won't buy.
Check this one out of the library. It's worth continuing the series. But, I'm sorry to have invested the money.
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