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Summary: Not for the casual Cornwell reader
Review: This book is for anyone who has followed the Kay Scarpetta saga from the start. Its highly introspective and dark approach may be too boring or tedious for the casual reader. But for the diehard fans, it is a fascinating read that ties up a lot of loose ends and gives greater insight into Scarpetta's mind.I can't wait to see where the Doc goes from here. New York? I loved the Jaime Berger character. I hope she shows up again. P.S. Definitely read "Point of Origin" and "Black Notice" first since this story is really the finale of these two stories.
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Summary: loopy loser
Review: What a muddled mess! Too many characters, subplots, introspection and confusion. Following the story line was pure torture and the ending was just thrown together. If I were a medical examiner, I would pronounce this book D.O.A. dead on arrival.
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Summary: Suspense?
Review: The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell is a suspense/fiction book. Cornwell writes with figurative language very creatively but I felt she often over used it. Certain subjects were very long and drawn out. There wasn't anything that kept me interested. I found it difficult to read this book because I just wasn't interested. I was expecting this to be a suspense book but she wrote more about the main character's self discovery than the actual murder situation. There was also nothing in the beginning of the book that caught my attention. I believe every good book should have a great attention getter and that is something Cornwell lacked. This is not a book I would reccommend.
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Summary: Scarpetta is REALLY human
Review: For those of us who are diehard Scarpetta followers, this book brought us exactly what we expected. If someone is looking for a mundane murder mystery with a predictable plot, pass on Cornwell and Kay Scarpetta. I feel like I know Scarpetta and I expected nothing less than an overwhelmed character in this latest book due to her recent experiences. Part of having a continuing character (that so many of us are addicted to) is carrying her experiences and how she develops by them from book to book. If you're not a true fan, perhaps you would be better off passing on this one since it's deeply reflective and is more centered on the main character than any of the rest of the series. After reading one of these I am overwhelmed with the fact that I need to wait...usually quite a while for the next one. I KNOW Cornwell will help Kay start to come out of her funk and jump back into life and I can't wait to see how she does it!
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Summary: 11 is an unlucky number for the reader
Review: I was a big fan of Patricia Cornwell, until the last precinct. I know you are going to have to read it to continue the werewolf story line but read it fast so the pain doesn't linger. I think some authors lose it with their character development and this one is lost to fantasy. The plot line leads us closer to the middle earth than it does to Richmond and the ending appears to be forced like she hit the number of required pages. So I know you will have to read it....just be quick and get the pain over with and go on to another author.
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Summary: Oh what a book!
Review: I have read many interviews with Patricia Cornwell, and i get the sense that she is a really likeable, generous, kindhearted person. I like her books, and her, a great deal. This book, whilst perhaps not being the best in terms of "intrigue" is nonetheless an extremely good entry in the series. It is a very strong and powerful book, which is full of emotion and shimmers with despair, injustice, unfairness, and in the middle of it all is Scarpetta, with Marino and Lucy, who at times seem to be the only people trying to right the wrongs of the world. (A downside to this comes when you get the sense that Scarpetta somehow feels very "superior" to everyone else.) The sense of loneliness Cornwell portrays is very compelling, and at times very moving. You feel Scarpetta's despair and depression at the terrible things going on in her world. Many people criticise the latest Scarpetta books for being too depressing and dark. But, i ask you, what else do you expect? The main character is a medical examiner who deals in death every single day...Are you expecting picnics by a river, or what? Death is depressing. So, by default, these novels shoudl also be quite depressing. It is also very moving the way that, over the course of the series, we have seen Scarpetta become gradually more and more immersed in her job, more obsessed by it and with justice, and yet with almost every book it brings her a further step down into the pit of depression. This latest book has a much slower pace than most of her previous novels, which is good. It is good for Scarpetta's life to slow down sometimes, so she has time to get to grips with things. Also, the reader has too. i cannot praise this series highly enough. It has so many levels, so many things which are praiseworthy. It goes from strength to strength, and all the books are different. The characters are great, if sometimes a tad pretentious. But hey, i can live with that, as long as Cornwell continues to write such good books. Her mastery of the English language is unquestionable. She rarely uses much descriptive prose, instead choosing to make her writing to the point and engaging, but when she does, it really gives the writing a shimmering edge. Brilliant, Patricia. Thank you. Ignore the doubters. I cannot wait for Scarpetta 12 (supposed to be the next part in this ongoing "Chandonne" saga.)
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Summary: Black Notice rewritten?
Review: The good point to this story is that it ties up some of the questions raised previously in the series. If you haven't read The Black Notice, read it before this one. The entire story of that book is almost completely retold in this one. There are more subplots going on in this one than Cornwell has ever had before, but unfortunately the main plot is revolves around her previous book. The writing is typical Cornwell. If you like the rest of the series, you'll probabaly like this one, but I just couldn't get into it.
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Summary: Old questions are finally answered
Review: The Last Precint is the most recent installment in the Kay Scarpetta series. Even though this book is grouped with the others, it is quite different. It is written in the present tense which may be distracting until you get into the story. The Last Precinct shows Kay having to face old wounds and deal with new blows that are dealt. Kay has to question which friends she can trust and who may stab her in the back. Kay is given a much more human side in this novel instead of the tough no-nonsense chief medical examiner that we usually see. The Last Precinct will see some old questions answered and new questions develop. This is very much a pivotal novel in the series. I'm very interested to see what Patricia Cornwell dreams up for Kay after this novel.
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Summary: Glad its over
Review: Does Kay Scarpetta not age? In Postmortem she was in her mid-forties, yet 18 years later in The Last Precinct she is "not yet fifty". I don't get it, or how huge errors like this get past an editor. Anyway it bothered me throughout this book (as did the whole plot). I hope this is the last book in the series, either way, its the last for me.
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Summary: Time for Patricia and Dr. Scarpetta to hang up lab coat.
Review: I started to read "The Last Precinct". For the life of me I could not get finish it, (hardly even started it). A friend told me to read "Black Notice" first, I might be able to read it then. I did. "Black Notice" was better. I was able to tolerate "Precinct". Dr. Scarpetta truly needs to see a shrink. Storyline "flatlined", making it as dead as her patients.
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