Unnatural Exposure

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Summary: Disappointing for the normal Cornwell thriller.
Review: I've read every book Cornwell has written and this one was the least enjoyable. The character of Dr. Scarpetta has become self-absorbed, and self-rightous. She has lost all sense of humor and appears to be angry with the world, including those closest to her. Ending on the last two has been abrupt and disappointing. Not sure if it is the writer or the character who is going through a "bad patch"...

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Summary: Well-Crafted Mystery
Review: Dr. Kay Scarpetta's biggest fear is that, after all the violence that she has seen in her career, it would be a disease, a silent killer, that would end her life. In this mystery, the reader saw a new side of her and a possible change in her life. After seven prior books featuring this strong, main character, Cornwell is continuing to provide fresh and exciting stories with characters that continue to grow. Here Scarpetta was scared, cried and lost her temper as she dealt with an invisible killer. Her relationship got stronger and more clearer with Benton Wesley as she got closure on an old love. As Scarpetta investigated what she first thought was an other act of serial murder, Cornwell took us through some abrupt twists and turns that made this a well-crafted mystery.

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Summary: Unsatisfying ending
Review: Patricia Cornwell typically writes an intriguing mystery - right up to the last ten pages. It is almmost as if she runs out of steam and just slaps together an ending in order to make a deadline. By the way, am I the only one who knows how to spell chamois?

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Summary: Not One Of Her Best
Review: I am definitely a PC fan. I have read every book that she has written. This one was a big disappointment. The ending made no sense at all. I hope first time readers will not give up on this wonderfully talented writer.

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Summary: Another Kay Scarpetta saga...
Review: Patricia Cornwell is a brilliant author, making an easy to read murder mystery fascinating and page turning. I have only read a few of the Kay Scarpetta stories, but I have enjoyed them all. This one is not a disappointment.

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Summary: Not impressed
Review: I've never read one of Cornwell's books before but I've been sampling various authors in this genre this summer. So far this was the worst. Very little suspense, the ending stunk and was unbelievable. I thought, "I got all the way to the end and that's it!". The technical detail on computers and the internet was obviously not well understood by the author and in same cases wrong. Makes me question the medical details. No more books by this author for me.

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Summary: Not up to Cornwell standards
Review: I thought the book was too involved in gorey details..Dr. Scarpetta has always been a character I liked, somehow in this book, I didn't. She seemed to lose her "personality" amongst all the saw cuts and body parts..a friend told me not to read it because I would be disappointed - didn't listen..should have..would have stopped reading in the middle if I wasn't such a compulsive book finisher. Here's hoping Scarpetta gets her personality back in the next book.

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Summary: Very descriptive until the ending; where detail is wanted!
Review: I enjoyed reading about Dr. Scarpetta and I even enjoyed the science, but the ending read as if it was a rushed, "I better rap this up now", non-conforming to the rest of the story attempt. Sort of like most of the Star Trek episodes. I hope all Cornwell's books aren't this way.

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Summary: Very disappointing and unusually disgusting.
Review: I am a devoted fan of PC's novels, but this one left me wondering if she actually wrote it. Scarpetta has gotten increasingly more self-righteous in each book, but she was nearly intolerable in UE! Also, one needs a reasonably strong stomach in order to read these books, but this one literally made me nauseous. I was very unhappy with this one, but I look forward to POO. I hope she spends more time in Richmond. She really sheds an interesting light on a city I love and miss dearly. Easing up on Marino would be very cool,too! Second to Kay, he is the favorite character of those in our extremely informal PC readers club. At any rate, I'll keep my fingers crossed!

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Summary: Where is the real Dr. Scarpetta/Patricia Cornwell?
Review: I have read almost all of the Dr. Kay Scarpetta tales, but this is one that left me more disappointed than satisfied. This story left more cliff-hangers than a Melrose Place episode! It seems as if I have been "enticed" into buying the newest addition to the Dr. Kay library just to find out what happened in all of these unfinshed plot lines, but I will wait for the paperback. I enjoyed and miss the thrills of previous books such as From Potter's Field and Cruel & Unusual.