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Summary: The well is dry
Review: I think I have figured it out! Authors, whether brilliant of just plain OK, have only so many good books in them. Once they go beyond that point, it's all downhill. And when the author was brilliant, the fall appears even more dramatic and disappointing for the readers who had once anxiously awaited their next release. I would put Patricia Cornwell in the Tom Clancy category now. Both have gone way past their limit. Comparing Blow Fly to Post Mortem is like comparing Teeth of the Tiger to Hunt for the Red October. In other words, there is no comparison. If they can't or won't give us the quality that were are used to then they should not write at all.
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Summary: Will the REAL Patricia Cornwell, please stand up!!
Review: A NO star book.. But there isn't a no star option. So I had to give it one star.. This is the first book I have ever pre-ordered. I couldn't wait to read it. I have read the entire Kay Scarpetta Series and disappointed doesnt even begin to describe what I felt after reading it.. About half way through I was wondering if she even wrote it? And by the end I would swear she didnt. It read like a soap opera. Jumping from one scene to the other.. Works for T.V. but NOT for books. And the resurrection of Benton? How much more soap opera can you get? And we even had a body and he still came back?? At least in a soap opera if you don't see a body you know that character can come back some day.. So when they do come back from the dead, it is accepted, you knew it could happen. But if there is a body, that character is gone for good. I returned from a book dicussion group this evening and one of the ladies in the group is a fan also and had read the book. As we were discussing it we discovered that we both had done the same thing after finishing the book. We went to our book shelfs and pulled out our other Scarpetta books because we thought maybe we were just not remembering them right? Could this really be a Patricia Cornwell Kay Scarpetta story we just read??
The writting style was SO different. Which we could probably have gotten over. But the characters weren't the same people we have grown to know and (some) love from previous books.
Ms. Cornwell if you read any of these reviews from fans, I hope you will give up this new writting style for the next book. And we know there has to be one. Please finally get rid of "The Wolf Man" He isn't even one of your best villians. Let's get back to the science, mystery and real endings! And if this was an editor or somone elses idea to try something different. Please fire them and keep as far away from them as possible. They are BAD for your career.. One more like this and I am afriad you wont have many loyal fans left. As for me, my pre-order days for Scarpetta are over! I'll borrow or buy used. I am not even sure what to do with this copy? I am not sure I would even want to offer this for sale used to someone else. And absolutly not for the price you can normally get from a hard cover book. This one is worth about .75 cents. The lowest price you can offer on-line for used books.
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Summary: Can the Kay Scarpetta series be saved?
Review: Say, for example, we visit Marino in the future. His bad habits have finally caught up with him, he's just had by-pass surgery, he's got emphysema, he's frail and miserable and a shadow of the big guy that, pig that he was, really knew how to work a crime. Frankly, that's not a guy I want to spend time with, and that analogy is pretty much where "the NEW Kay Scarpetta" lands us. Cornwell's got her series on a path of self-destruction. Kay's walked away from the M.E.'s job, she's struggling in a run down rental home in the middle of nowhere (sorry, Delray), she's taking nothing cases, usually pro bono which isn't exactly what you'd think someone unemployed would shoot for.... Benton is weird, paranoid, distant, not to mention creepy; Lucy is certifiable, out committing cold-blooded murder and thinking it's alright; and Kay, who's barely in the book, is as lost as I've ever seen a character who once ruled supreme. Besides all that? The plot stinks. EVERYTHING is artificial. Lucy's secret agent set up, Kay's saccharin friendship with a kid, Benton's resurrection, the idea of Benton running the show after being in witness protection for the better part of a decade, how the Chandonnes are obsessed with Kay, how the hairy one breaks out of jail, how Bev fetches victims for Talley, how they FIND Talley and Bev, and most of all -- there is just no way that Lucy and Marino would have known Benton was alive and not told Kay.
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Summary: THE OLD CORNWELL "RIDES AGAIN"
Review: When I finished "Point of Origin" I thought Cornwell had lost her mind ! Thank goodness it (her mind) has returned. This latest one (Blow Fly) was a goodie. Of course my opinion is certainly jaded. I grew up in South Louisiana (Baton Rouge to be exact)and have fished and crawfished in the very same dark swampy places she took us to in this book.
Several co-workers and I wait impatiently for each new Scarpetta visit and we certainly were not disappointed this time. I believe "Blow Fly" brings us full circle and we will see Cornwell taking us back to the days of the old Scarpetta and her woes that taunted and scared the daylights out of us. I would only hope that she writes a sequel to this one very quickly. I did not want it to end ! Hurry Hurry Hurry...Ms. Cornwell...........
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Summary: Give me my money back
Review: This book is simply awful. I have been a fan of this series from the beginning and so eager to read the latest I indulge in getting the hard cover as soon as it is available. Everyone involved in putting this one out should be ashamed.
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Summary: Very Disappointed
Review: Having read all of the Scarpetta novels, I must definitely say that this one was the worst. The novel jumped around way too much. It lacked the intrigue that all of the other books had. I had to keep reading it in hopes that it would get better, but it never did. The book was poorly developed and written. I must also say that the ending was very disappointing. It was like she just stopped writing. I am in hopes that if and when she writes another Scarpetta novel, it will not be like this one. Please go back to the old style of writing.
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Summary: leaves me hanging, but oh so good!
Review: Scarpetta is back! Finally!! I've been dissapointed with Cornwell following Point of Origin. Previously her Scarpetta novels have been cookie cut-outs of crime, criminalist, and a resolution all wrapped up in cyclone of the last chapter. Not a very good way to end a book but the details have ALWAYS been top notch and the action keeping me on the edge of my eat. After Point of Origin things appeared to go downhill. Nothing made sense. With "Blow Fly" I'm happy to say Patricia Cornwell is back on top of her gain. I was not only surprised by the new information of the characters but happy to see that maybe the characters are settling back into that predictable formula. It was a fast read and the ending left me screaming for more! I won't ruin it for anyone but I must say: It's no cyclone! The book will literally bring you to the edge of your seat until you fall off, and yet we aren't satisfied. Scarpetta is older, wiser, and more refined. Lucy is on a new and prosperous track. Marino comes across as a fallen hero but soon brings himself back from the ashes.... And others come from the ashes as well to an enormous surprise. Blow Fly is an excellent return. If Point of Origin was the beginning of a downslide, then Blow Fly is the return to the top with an incredible rush of excitement. Great Show Ms. Cornwell!
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Summary: All loose ends!
Review: I was SO DISAPPOINTED! There were interesting characters but they had stories that went nowhere! And why name the book Blow Fly????? I realize the book bases itself on previously introduced characters, but the plot just never made it. The ending was horrible. I found myself wanting to call Cornwell, after reading nightly, and asking why she let me down at the end??????? I think Cornwell is brilliant, but this was bad. It had a lot of possibilities but too many side streets. And where was Scarpetta?????
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Summary: We waited soooooo long..................
Review: Having read the series from the beginning (some of the books twice waiting for the next installment): love the character, style of writing, and details, details, details! Didn't like third person, and the style of writing is unlike the other books, but I do feel Cornwell sets up numerous future books with all the possibilities unresolved by the ending. The style of writing seemed to mirror Scarpetta's current frame of mind & mood. A must read for a true fan... but I'll start to lose interest if the next one is written in third person.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Poorly written. Plot was never developed and the novel ended abruptly. As a long time fan of the Scarpetta series, this was a tremendous disappointment. Wait for the paperback issue if you truly want to read this book.
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