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Summary: Introspective
Review: I especially liked the first part of The Last Precinct in that the reader finally gets to know a lot more of the insides of Kay Scarpetta. I really felt like I was on the way to knowing about why Kay reacts the way she does. Many readers resent that The Last Precinct retells the story of Black Notice, but being as how the I read the two books a year apart, I was grateful for the refresh. The final third of the book is definitely contrived and it appears that PC is trying to wrap it up as best she can. There are too many loose ends that are tied up too quickly. By the 2nd to last chapter, I wasn't sure if Kay was telling her story from the grave or from the witness stand. I get the feeling that Kay Scarpetta is going to embark on a new career - one in New York with Lucy at her side. I am looking forward to the chapter in PC's life.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I just finished reading this book and I thought it was great. I do not agree with the bad reviews. It was not a repeat of the other book it went on from there. It was very hard to put down and had a great ending. I love this author and have everyone of her great books.
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Summary: Still keeps me wondering until I finish!
Review: I read alot of poor reviews on this, but had to buy it anyway. I was not at all annoyed by Dr. Scarpetta's introspection in the beginning. I am extremely curious about the murders and relationships to past villians that P.Cornwell is intro-weaving into Dr. Scarpetta's nightmare. As always with this series, during the day, I can't wait to read more at night!
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Summary: I'm done with this series
Review: Although I have been a loyal reader of the series, The Last Precinct will be the last I read. I think I would still be a reader if Kay had saved Mr. Peanut! One moment that she thought of something outside herself and acted on it would have been enough to keep me as a reader. Instead, she is totally self-involved, whiny and the books are dark and depressing with no letup. People are not that one-dimensional and therefore the characters are becoming boring. And for heavens sake let up on Marino!!
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Summary: An end to a new beginning
Review: The Last Precinct was another great book written by Patricia Cornwell. After Black Notice I was afraid this would be the last book where she could use the characters that I have grown to love to read about. Her ending was very powerful and it leads to many new and different story lines.
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Summary: A contrived set up to the next book
Review: I love Kay Scarpetta. I have read all the books in the series, and was happy to finally get The Last Precinct. What a disappointment. This book spends a great deal of time rehashing the past two books and an unbearable amount of time on Kay talking everything over with her friends. There was a time when the focus of the books were criminals and solving the crimes via forensics. Lately it seems as Kay is always the victim, with somebody out to get her. After reading this book I was very let down. While the main 'mystery' of this book is solved, it all seem slapped on at the end, and very contrived. It seems as the whole point of the book was to set up the next book; which at this point, unless the reviews are great, I will probably skip.
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Summary: The Last Precinct
Review: Having gone through the devistation that happens when losing someone you love, I am relieved that Patricia Cromwell didn't gloss over Kay's loss, as she has in the past. All the characters in Kay Scarpetta's life touch her and deserve to be mourned when they pass over. Through her grief, Kay, not only becomes more human, but now has the chance to move forward in her emotional life. I found the parts about the Loup-Garou to be a bit dissatisfying. It would be interesting to know about his life story more as a human being than as the monster we think of him to be. However, that would probably be another book. The twists and turns were not as clearly defined and easy to follow on a first reading and could have been paced a little slower. All in all, I found this to be an excellent book that allowed the reader to feel everything that Kay is feeling.
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Summary: Brilliantly written, another winner for Cornwell
Review: Patricia Cornwell has written another brilliant suspense novel about our favorite Medical Examiner, Dr. Kay Scarpetta. In this latest installment, Kay is reeling over the loss of her long-time significant other, Benton Wesley and possibly facing murder charges. Although Point of Origin is my all-time favorite Dr. Kay novel, I really enjoyed seeing deeply into Kay's thoughts and feelings as the novel progressed. Although I didn't laugh with/at Marino as much as usual, I thought his character played a great role. Some things I didn't like about the book included a somewhat straight plot and a lack of resolution between Marino and his untowardly son. Overall, great book!
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Summary: Weak, Weak, Weak
Review: This book should have been an additional chapter or two of it's predecessor "Black Notice." That's all the content there is to be had, but unfortunately expanded out to 10 times that size. The first 230 pages are just re-living that book, and it's only after that that the plot of this book is revealed, and an extremely weak one it is. Cornwell seems to be bored with Kay's world and un-able to create new stories for us. Hopefully, this book leads to enough change in Scarpetta's life to re-energize the author. Have you noticed that the Scarpetta series has always been a dark one? Every book in the dead of a cold gloomy winter? Lucy and Kay & Pete constantly fighting depression? Never having good luck, always having bad things happen to them? Every book has had this. Well, this one is the darkest, the gloomiest and the most depressing. I can't figure out if Cornwell is the most depressed person on earth, or the happiest (cause she puts all her bad moods into these books.)
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Summary: Unreal
Review: For the first time in all of the books I've read of Ms. Cornwell this is the first that I could not only "put down", but halfway through I didn't care how it ended. Only that this tedious work of unbelievable fiction FINALLY did end. It was wordy and frequently redundant. An author of this caliber should concentrate on content and not the obviously payment per word.
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