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Summary: Dumb, dumb, dumbest.
Review: How can an individual of such intelligence, wit and coolth write so badly? This is so poorly written that I can not understand how Ms. Cornwell ever was accepted as an author. It is even worse than her attempt at humor with the novel about the Virginia cops. (Which was so bad I forgot the title!)
The Characters are so one-dimensional that you can not relate to them. While the science is accurate, it is so irrelevant that you don't care.
While I am certain that females take issue with the portrayal of women by male authors, Ms. Cornwell hasn't a clue about male behavior. No human male would act as she has her male characters act. Sorry Patricia, go back to talk shows and figuring out ancient crimes. You do that very well!Take my advice - don't bother with this book.
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Summary: Stinkola!
Review: I was appalled and aghast while reading this...thing. Yes, I finished it. Kind of like watching a train wreck - don't want to look but must. Patricia (and Patricia's editor!), what were you thinking?!? I could have dealt with all the plot landmines if not for the tawdry ending. What a cheat. What a cop out. Glad I got it from the library.
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Summary: Blow Fly
Review: Patricia Cornwell? tell me it's not so. This book was hard to follow and Patricia must not have put much time in writing this story at all. You might want to read it just to keep up with her next book, which I hope will have more time in the writing.
Larry Hobson-Author "The Day Of The Rose"
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Summary: Writer's Block?
Review: As a huge fan and avid reader of anything that Cornwell writes, I was eager to jump right into 'Blowfly'. Perhaps this is what the publishers were counting on. I'll snap up anything that Patricia Cornwell writes, expecting and enthralling tale. However, with her latest effort, this was not meant to be. I was disappointed in the choppy, poorly-interconnected storylines, and the dry, uneventful lives of her characters. Most chapters last no more than 3 pages, and I was nearly breathless just trying to keep up. Several times, I found myself reviewing prior chapters because I thought I missed something. I must agree with other reviewers who feel that this novel is a set-up for others to come. Unfortunately, this book is a must-read because without it, subsequent Scarpetta stories won't make any sense, and I suffered through it all the way up to the last paragraph. It lacks Cornwell's hallmarks of storytelling: style, substance, and suspense. It seems as though she was pressured to sit down and write a novel, at whatever cost, without bothering with the usual in-depth research and story development that we have come to respect from her. I would like to think that she would take more pride in the pages between the covers, rather than the name on the front. I am used to a more eloquent Cornwell, and hope her next novel will prove that 'Blowfly' was an isolated case of writer's block.
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Summary: Did she run out of paper?
Review: I had heard so much about Cornwell that I'm sorry that I picked this book as the first to read. I thought it hard to follow and had to go back and reread passages a couple of times to figure out what was being done to whom and then the bottom just dropped out at the end. Should I risk another book by Cornwell or move on?
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Summary: Did I miss something?
Review: I looked forward to another Scarpetta novel, having read all the others, but this was a real disappointment. It didn't really seem to go anywhere, and jumped from one idea to another, so it was confusing. I kept wondering if I was missing something! I was hoping the Chandonne story line would come to an end in this book, but, it seems there's room for more, as seen by the ending, which happened way too fast with very little detail or explanation. I still feel like I missed something. This was a very disatisfying book, to say the least. The Kay Scarpetta I love reading about would not have put up with this!
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Summary: Well Corny
Review: It seems as though Patricia Cornwell has not spent the last three years creating credible new storylines for her best - loved character. Benton's re-emergence was explored previously and his role should have been laid to rest.
This novel was disappointing, lacking in the vivid characterisation deployed in the author's previous works and its denouement was hurried and unsatisfactory.
The horrific Jay Talley met his maker far too simply and the reader is left with the feeling that Cornwell has lost her conviction with regard to the superb plotlines and characters for which she is celebrated.
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Summary: Where is the suspense?
Review: I am a big fan of Patricia Cornwell's and have read every book in the Kay Scarpetta series. Blowfly was a christmas present. As I read it, I just kept waiting and waiting for it to get better. It never did. I was so puzzled by the ending, there was no suspense at all!
It seemed to me that this book's purpose was simply to set up the scenario for the next one.
Bad news, wolfman is on the loose and unfortunately that will require one more book to put him to rest. I also would favor a brand new case in the next book, with maybe only one paragraph devoted to wolfman, mentioning that Kay gets a phone call from a long time associate to let her know that a man covered with baby fine hair was found, bled to death, having mistakenly bit off his tongue while looking at a picture of Kay.
And that's it, bury him and move on!
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Summary: Mailing Book Back to Publisher
Review: I sure wish I had read these reviews before I bought the hardback just because I have loved the series! This is such crap that I am going to mail the book back to G. Putnam's Sons after I go to the web site of Penguin ( www.penguin.com) and ask for my money back. Also will go to Cornwell's web site to complain.
My husband, also a fan, had started to read it first and stopped after about five pages. He is a litle more squeamish than I so I just thought something was a little more gory than he could handle even tho he is a doctor. But he just had picked up bad vibes. So I sailed into it and what a dog. All we are left with is Benton has done this terrible thing to his family which gets one line and Kay, who is still shell shocked six years later? Lucy has met a young police officer to whom she may be attracted who is apparently a hetrosexual, and the Wolfman may have mystical powers and is on the loose. So what is next? Lucy eating her heart out for a hetro or trying to seduce one? Kay turning hot and cold whenever she thinks of Benton's desertion? Benton still hiding because Wolfman and his dad are still alive?
And Marino drinking himself to death still. What a constution!
He should have been dead fron the smoking, anger, drinking, and mooning over Kay years ago. He can't be that stuipd and still breathing. 0 Stars from me! And I am not buying another book. Kay and Patricia are dead to me.
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Summary: I am so disappointed!
Review: This book is terrible. It read as a cheap horror story and the ending fell flat. I hope that she starts Kay Scarpetta with a clean slate in her next novel. I can't believe that Patricia Cornwell didn't realize what a lousy book Blow Fly is. If the choice were possible I would give this book no stars!
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