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Summary: A dolorous ending for Dr. Kay
Review: I am not sure if it is because of the times we now live in or my own lack of hope for the future, but I could barely get through this book. The lengthy discussion of torture and death was excessive and I too found a loss of love for the main characters. Lucy is now a hired killer - it was just a annihilation of people I cared about. Very disappointing and it will be my last Kay Scarpetta read although perhaps not my last Cornwell read.
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Summary: One star is one too many.
Review: I agree with all the negative comments I've read so far. This may do it for me as far as reading Patricia Cornwell in the future. Why has she allowed her characters to become so hardened and morose? There is not a likeable person among them; and if the reader does not care about the people in a novel, whats the point of reading it?
Some revelations and answers to long-standing questions were made clear, but becuse of the afore-mentioned facts, I couldn't work up much interest.
My biggest regret, second only to wasting the money I spent on this book, is that I didn't read the customer reviews until I had already bought it.
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Summary: Something's missing.
Review: Kay Scarpetta is missing for Cornwell's newest novel 'Blow Fly', but the usual cast of characters such as Jean-Baptiste Chandonne, Wolfman,Lucy, and Marino are here. I am not sure if I am such a fan of Kay Scarpetta or the character development here was not up to Cornwell's traditional standards.
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Summary: WHY? ~ A TOTAL ANTI CLIMAX...! WELL BELOW PAR..
Review: I agree with almost every post regarding this novel.
Having read ALL of Patricia Cornwell's works this was a real dissapointment.
The ending ~ from Chapters 122 to 124 were like a student hurring to finish an exam essay!
I would have thought with a 3 year wait since 'The Last Precinct", we would have not have been subjected to such a lack lustre ending.....
The book itself was an average read ( up till Chapter 122 )as it tied all the well known characters together, however it ended so badly that I would advise anyone contemplating reading it to not waste their time....
Miss Cornwell is this really the best you could do?...
Please give your readers the respect they deserve.
Andrew N ~ Australia
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Summary: Just plain awful
Review: Truly, one of the worst books I have ever read. This was just plain awful. It was so disjointed, vague and just plain unbelievable that I, for the very first time in reading an offering from Patricia Cornwell, really struggled to finish it. I kept turning each page hopeing against hope that it would get better and it didn't; it got progressively worse. The only good thing I can say about the ending was it was swift!!Ms Cornwell; Please go back to the formula that worked because this style of writing clearly isn't and your fan base is telling you this loud and clear. A one star rating is being very generous.
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Summary: This is the last Cornwell novel I'll waste my time on....
Review: Such a disappointment. Fame and a well-known name do not always equal quality. The book got off to an okay start and perhaps even had potential to go somewhere. (I am being generous.) But it seemed like Cornwell just got tired of writing and scratched out a third-rate ending. I'm looking for a different author.
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Summary: Save your money
Review: This book was extremely disappointing.The story took a long time to unfold but it never really developed. This book is totally unlike the rest of the series.
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Summary: Time to kill them off and move on
Review: These characters are getting very tiresome. They have been reduced to poorly drawn cartoon images - only capable of extremes of emotion. It is impossible to relate to any of them, or care what happens to them. The plot uses a resurrected dead man to advance the cause - but the villians are the same ones we've seen over and over again. Dull.
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Summary: A horrible disappointment
Review: As an avid Patricia Cornwell fan since Post Mortem first hooked me, I have finally been put off completely by this latest travesty. I wasn't too thrilled with the whole Wolfman saga to begin with, but I was willing to give Blow Fly a chance because I wanted to see Scarpetta get on with her life after Benton's demise. She was a true, albeit complicated, heroine who I rooted for in every novel, but now I find her utterly tiresome. I cannot understand or identify with the person Lucy has transformed into, either. I agree with the previous reviewer who felt that Cornwell spent too much time investigating the Jack the Ripper murders and getting wrapped up in her celebrity to do justice to the protagonist who made those opportunities materialize for her in the first place. Blow Fly lacks character development, plot detail, and the ending read like Cornwell had better things to do than finish the book. The only thing I can think of to compare it to is Thomas Harris's god-awful Hannibal, which was nothing more than a big middle-finger salute to his devoted readers who wanted to see more of the anti-hero he created. Patricia Cornwell would do her readers a great service by getting back to her Post Mortem roots and coming up with a new protagonist we could truly cheer for again. Kay Scarpetta's not just washed up in Virginia anymore.
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Summary: Englishteachersnightmare
Review: Judging by the number of typos and missed grammaticals, even Cornwell's editors couldn't bring themselves to actually read the thing. Too much talk about the past with very little action bearing on the story. New characters are too thin. I've read better "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" essays. Didn't someone notice there was no ending? It just stopped. Be glad to relax with a real Cornwell novel. Get this girl an editor!!
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