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Summary: A Very QUICK Read!
Review: Point of Origin has got to be the BEST Patricia Cornwell book I have read to date. It was fast-moving with twists and turns that kept me thinking from the first to the last page. Get this book....you won't be disappointed!
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Summary: Point of Origin
Review: Point of Origin was the first Kay Scarpetta novel to make mecry. I don't think I can forgive Patricia Cornwell for 'killing' one of the main characters, but that doesn't mean that I didn't think this was yet another brilliant story. It's amazing how Patricia Cornwell manages to grab my attention from the first few sentences of every book she writes. Everytime she publishes a new Scarpetta novel, it's like meeting up with old friends, Kay, Lucy and Marino. Point of Origin is a sort of cry for more humanity in the world, and this message is wrapped up and spoken out by Kay, who is heartbroken throughout most of the book. The scene in which she discovers the body in the burnt-down house made me cry so much, especially as, as every reader knows, this man meant so much to Kay. I am now reading 'Black Notice' and the letter at the beginning of the book made this feeling come back and I cried again.
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Summary: Point of Origin
Review: Point of Origin was the first Kay Scarpetta novel to make me cry. I don't think I can forgive Patricia Cornwell for 'killing' one of the main characters, but that doesn't mean that I didn't think this was yet another brilliant story. It's amazing how Patricia Cornwell manages to grab my attention from the first few sentences of every book she writes. Everytime she publishes a new Scarpetta novel, it's like meeting up with old friends, Kay, Lucy and Marino. Point of Origin is a sort of cry for more humanity in the world, and this message is wrapped up and spoken out by Kay, who is heartbroken throughout most of the book. The scene in which she discovers the body in the burnt-down house made me cry so much, especially as, as every reader knows, this man meant so much to Kay. I am now reading 'Black Notice' and the letter at the beginning of the book made this feeling come back and I cried again.
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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: I can not recall the last time when I actually stopped readinga book I had bought because it was so bad. This series has gotten progressively worse over the past few years until it has reached a point where it is practically unreadable. Kay Scarpetta has become totally unlikeable, the dialogue stilted and unbelievable. Do yourself a favor and give this one a pass.
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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: I can not recall the last time when I actually stopped reading a book I had bought because it was so bad. This series has gotten progressively worse over the past few years until it has reached a point where it is practically unreadable. Kay Scarpetta has become totally unlikeable, the dialogue stilted and unbelievable. Do yourself a favor and give this one a pass.
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Summary: Enjoyable - but not the author's best
Review: I have always looked upon Patricia Cornwell's novels as arelease. They are never intellectually demanding but, generally, are guaranteed to provide an interesting plot, good characterization etc. While there was nothing wrong with "Point of Origin", there was nothing in it to rave about either. Once again, the protagonist, medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, is faced with a baffling series of murders but, once again (and I am giving absolutely nothing away by saying this) she faces the same nemesis that we have seen in previous novels. In reading the novel, I could not help that Cornwell has become too comfortable with Carrie Grethen to be willing to branch out and create a new villain who resorts to methods other than those made so familiar by Dr. Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs." Where Cornwell succeeds, however, is in her mastery of medical detail. The success of the Scarpetta novels hinged greatly on the fact that the reader was actually able to picture themselves at the crime scene and in the morgue as a criminal investigation was conducted. The descriptions that Cornwell makes are admittedly gory but no more so than what medical examiners are, presumably, faced with every day. One is not left with the impression that the gore is gratuitous and that is why I have kept coming back to the Scarpetta novels. "Point of Origin" is an improvement over some of Cornwell's other more recent Scarpetta novels. If only she were willing to experiment with new characters and plot lines, rather than stick to what is becoming the same formulaic plot, her readership would only continue to grow.
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Summary: Enjoyable - but not the author's best
Review: I have always looked upon Patricia Cornwell's novels as a release. They are never intellectually demanding but, generally, are guaranteed to provide an interesting plot, good characterization etc. While there was nothing wrong with "Point of Origin", there was nothing in it to rave about either. Once again, the protagonist, medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, is faced with a baffling series of murders but, once again (and I am giving absolutely nothing away by saying this) she faces the same nemesis that we have seen in previous novels. In reading the novel, I could not help that Cornwell has become too comfortable with Carrie Grethen to be willing to branch out and create a new villain who resorts to methods other than those made so familiar by Dr. Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs." Where Cornwell succeeds, however, is in her mastery of medical detail. The success of the Scarpetta novels hinged greatly on the fact that the reader was actually able to picture themselves at the crime scene and in the morgue as a criminal investigation was conducted. The descriptions that Cornwell makes are admittedly gory but no more so than what medical examiners are, presumably, faced with every day. One is not left with the impression that the gore is gratuitous and that is why I have kept coming back to the Scarpetta novels. "Point of Origin" is an improvement over some of Cornwell's other more recent Scarpetta novels. If only she were willing to experiment with new characters and plot lines, rather than stick to what is becoming the same formulaic plot, her readership would only continue to grow.
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Summary: Point of Origin
Review: This book is just as good as her previous ones. Unfortunately,when a friend introduced me to this author she loaned me her books out of order of publication. I highly recommend that anyone who wants to read these awesome novels, read them in order of when they were published as one book builds on the previous. While each one can stand alone, I feel I would have enjoyed them more had I read them in order!
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Summary: Point of Origin
Review: This book is just as good as her previous ones. Unfortunately, when a friend introduced me to this author she loaned me her books out of order of publication. I highly recommend that anyone who wants to read these awesome novels, read them in order of when they were published as one book builds on the previous. While each one can stand alone, I feel I would have enjoyed them more had I read them in order!
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Summary: Not Bad
Review: I really liked this book, though not as much as others like Postmortem and Unnatural Exposure. I thought she could have went more into the some of the charcters, but on the morbidity level....it was awesome
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