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Summary: The Worst!
Review: Simply put, this is one of the worst books I have ever read. Hands down!I was looking foward to a new Scarpetta novel - but this? The plot is contrived, the characters unrecognizable, the book goes off in so many different directions. By the time I reached the end, I just didn't care anyore. Don't waste your time and money on this book!
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Summary: Blow Fly: A Scarpetta Novel
Review: I've been a big fan of the earlier Scarpetta novels---but what a disapointment this one was. It was like it wasn't even written by the same person. The revived bad guys were almost cartoonish, and the new charactors (which seemed to have more attention than Kate) were somewhat interesting, but never fully developed.
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Summary: almost better
Review: cornwells past few scarpetta novels have been lackluster, mundane, in short boring....with blow fly we see the return of some of the pacing and characterization that made her early books so successful..
...on the negative side the ending leaves alot ALOT to be desired
and far too many dangling plot threads...
...for the next scarpetta novel let's see the tale of one of her first cases, because it's starting to feel like i'm reading about my grandmother
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Summary: blown
Review: I am an avid admirer of Cornwell's books and just completed Blow Fly and was blown away with the lack luster content. I sure hope the next Scarpetta novel is a 5 star because this one seemed rushed, harried and scattered.
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Summary: too much violence; too little substance.
Review: found Blow Fly on the new books shelf in the library and seized the opportunity for cornwell to redeem herself after such a lackluster Hornet's Nest. alas, this - cornwell's latest scarpetta novel - sucks, too. centering on two serial murders, who happen to be fraternal twins, the story's fraught with unnecessary, detailed violence and atrocities. more disturbingly, lucy, benton and even kay are touched by the uneven brutality of cornwell's prose, for they seem sinister and untrustworthy - especially lucy, who seems ready to erupt into a savage dervish with just the right provocation. guess that's what happens when your mom's a well-known author of children's books. i like(d) cornwell because her earlier novels were good, solid mysteries, edgier than the classic agatha christies. characters were interesting and well-rounded, and plots were compelling. but this turn toward sick violence is neither useful to the plot nor interesting. there's enough hate, inhumanity and sadism in real life that I don't need it re-enacted in my leisure reading. again, i wonder whether cornwell wrote Blow Fly and Hornet's Nest (have not yet read the books between) or whether she got tired and let her niece take over. :)
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Summary: Oh Dear ! ! !
Review: I have been a Patricia Cornwall fan since I read her first book Post-mortem, which I borrowed of my Aunt at the age of 13. I have waited in anticipation for each of the new Scarpetta novels, this was no exception. I asked for the book as a Christmas present, and as I had just given birth to my first child, I was saving it to read once I had gotten used to my new job of motherhood. I was so disappointed, I struggled to read the book, I thought that motherhood had muddled my mind, so I read it again. It's worse the second time round. I must admit that I will buy the next Scarpetta novel Trace when it is released... But only because I am intrigued to know if could really be that bad again.. I guess it could have been worse Benton could have come back in the shower ...
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Summary: What on earth happened to Pat?
Review: First Ilse of Dogs which was a Dog. The Ripper wasn't far behind and now this. Does it rate a one.. no. Hacked and trite BUT I will admit not as bad as De Dog which isn't saying much. It could be toilet paper for the outhouse instead of going to the burn barrel. What happened? Different Ghost writer? A Ghost writer? What? What? Or maybe it is just time to stop writing for a while. It is better to leave your fans gasping for more than just gasping.
One starts to wonder.
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Summary: I liked the book
Review: I liked the book, I would have given it 5 stars if she'd gotten rid of the wolfman. I'm glad Benton is back, the books weren't the same without him. I like the two new characters as well. The ending was too fast, and wasn't satisfying, however, I have read a lot of books worse than Blowfly. I was very happy to have bought the book and I don't understand why the reviews are so totally bad. I read this book in less than 24 hours and eagerly await the next book.
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Summary: This Blow Fly is still a maggot
Review: It's prolly too late to matter but there are some spoilers below. When I saw the blurb that includes "..confronts her with the shock of her life." I just KNEW that Benton would be involved. (BTW I don't want to know even that much about the events in a book. It's like, "Watch out for the surprise ending." or a character saying, in the first chapter "Had I know how badly things would turn out...") Anyway, my guess was that Kay would finally meet the child that Benton fathered with Lucy when she was 14. That would explain SO much. If there is another book in this series it must include Kay dealing with her egregious and continuing betrayal by the three most important people in her life. There could be good reason for staging the death and even keeping Kay in the dark... but for SIX YEARS? The best ending for this book would have been for Kay to see Benton climbing the stairs, Glock in hand, and shooting him dead. No, no... she sees him, shoots but only wounds him, he tells her the story, THEN she shoots him dead.
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Summary: Done with Cornwell
Review: This is a terrible novel. Does Cornwell just live on her laurels these days? None of her later novels reach the quality of her earlier books. In Blowfly there is too much of an effort to mix all of her earlier characters, and this does not work.
Sorry all this has happened to an author I use to enjoy.
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