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Summary: Like Godiva Chocolate....addicting and never quite enough
Review: Patricia Cornwall's books are like chocolate to me....totallyaddicting and I can never get enough. "Unnatural Exposure" is right upthere with Godiva Chocolate!
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Summary: What's all the fuss over this poorly crafted book?
Review: Upon finishing "Unnatural Exposure" I found myselfwondering if Patricia Cornwell had spent much more time writing thebook than I had spent reading it. Fortunately, I got my copy at the Price Club, and got my money's worth -- a couple of evenings of mindless diversion, at about the same investment, both financial and mental, of seeing "Good Burgers" and "Air Bud" Her slap-dash treatment of technical issues makes me wonder if the descriptions of forensic medicine (about which I don't know much) are as muddled and erroneous as those of computers and networks (about which I know a lot more). And what about all those characters whose stories are never resolved? Did Investigator Ring get his comeuppance, or did he succeed in ruining Lucy? Or is that just grist for a future story? The "climax" was so abrupt as to seem perfunctory -- I can hear the editor saying "Pat, your page budget is only 335, so you'll have to wrap it up in the next 8 pages; just pick somebody and make them the villan! Don't worry about your plot and character development; you can just pick them up in your next book. Oh, and will you throw in an epilogue that wraps up Kay's love interest loose ends while you're at it?" I have bought a Scarpetta three-novel collection including "Post Mortem", also at the Price Club, to see if Cornwell's work deserves more attention. Looks like I'll be able to get through the whole thing while I'm on a week's vacation. Cornwell may make the best-seller lists, but she's not going to rival authors such as P. D. James on anybody's best writer list.
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Summary: A much anticpated novel from one of my favourite authors!
Review: I really could not wait to reward myself for a couple of very hard weeks work with this book. The cover is Cornwell's usual visual and kinesthetic marketing strategy (excellent) and the book is extremely readable. I read it at one sitting as I usually do for this writer. But despite my thorough enjoyment of the book, it was not Patricia Cornwells best effort! Thank God, however, that Dr. Kay is finally crystallizing her rather tedious affairs of the heart. Carrying torches is not to be recommended.. particularly not for intelligent middle class women who have so much to offer! Bring on the next book. I can't wait
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Summary: Not Cornwell's best
Review: Although the subject matter is right up to the minutes, there is a carelessness about the writing itself. It doesn't begin to touch Cornwell's earlier work such as The Body Farm. Rather it reads like a treatment for a thriller movie. The finale is rushed and not even clever. Who dunnit is of no interest
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Summary: Very good, although not excellent, return to Scarpetta
Review: I'm not sure if I enjoyed this book because I thought"Hornet's Nest" was so bad that I was relieved or if it wasthe return of Kay Scarpetta that hooked me.
For whatever reason, I thoroughly enjoyed this latest entry in the Kay Scarpetta saga. I really enjoyed all of the technical stuff as well as the personal relationships -- particularly between Kay and Lucy. And, I really didn't know "whodunnit" until the end and was surprised. I would recommend this book highly, especially to those who have enjoyed Cornwell's past books. If you've never read a Patricia Cornwell mystery before, I'd start with one of the early books and work my way forward to this one.
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Summary: Great book - can't wait for another Kay Scarpetta
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book, I think Kay
Scarpetta is great and I really like Marino.
Was sorry she had to lose her helper in the
morgue though. I'm anxiously awaiting the
next book to see what happens to Lucy and
her battle in court. I'm not sure how I feel
about her relationship with Benton though, they
don't seem to fit. I rate this book a 10 - it was
great
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Summary: Scarpetta is back almost as good as in body farm
Review: Cornwell has returned Scarpetta to a more believable role than in her last adventure - that of a "wonder woman." Cornwell uses the usual twisted serial murder as a launching pad to enter the mental terror of killer viruses she would not be ordinarily able to enter with a medical examiner. She again spends abundant time continuing charater development, yet she uses it also to retain the tension of trying to find the killer before there is another body found. The ending is sudden and abrupt. I felt she had perhaps reached her page limit and decided to quit. I did find the book to be a page turner. Far, far better than the last one
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Summary: Adieu Patricia Cornwell
Review: After having been disappointed with HORNET'S NEST, I relishedthe idea of reading about my friend Dr. Kay Scarpetta. However,Patricia Cornwell's new book UNNATURAL EXPOSURE was even more of a disappointment. I, for one, believe her greatest book to be BODY FARM. The villian had a sense of purpose, character and became a challenge to Kay...Alas, I felt the character development was weak, the plot predicable and far below standard. I'm sorry to say I will not be wasting my precious spare time dawdling over a Cornwell book when there's so many eloquent writer's out there.
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Summary: Fun read but abrupt end
Review: Was going to rate this book a "6" because of the ending beingsprung at me. But from other reviews I see I was the one who missedCornwell's clues. It still seems to me like UNNATURAL EXPOSURE ends VERY suddenly. But getting there is all the fun, and I enjoyed her writing and the unusual adventures in this book very much. Patricia Cornwell has a unique style which has made me a big fan, and this book is in that customary, involving style. I do not like to see her books end at all, ESPECIALLY not suddenly.
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Summary: Patricia Cornwell IS Kay Scarpetta!
Review: Bloody heck, I was finished within 24 hours and have beenmoping ever since. Marino a huge fan of Elvis -- ya gotta love it!And I had no clue who the murderer was until the very end, of course I suspected someone -- was dead wrong, of course! The interaction between Lucy and her Aunt Kay is always so well done, her feelings for Lucy come from Scarpetta so easily -- Cornwell's gotta have a niece like Lucy, doncha think? Buy it I say, and make sure to sign your name on the front fly cuz you'll be asked to lend it out.
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