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Summary: Has Cornwell Lost Her Touch
Review: It is inconceivable of someone in this day and age to use an e-mail identifier and profile as obvious as Dr. Scarpetta. People have tried to kill her before, why not torment her through e-mail. The story was very weak. Her attempt to lure female readers with the Scarpetta/Benton previously adulturous romance fails. The story is not compelling and is poorly developed. After the debacle of Hornets Nest I expected much more. I continue to be disappointed.
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Summary: Favorite Author
Review: I just love spending time with Kay Scarpetta, my only complaint is the books don't come fast enough. THis was no exception a great read....
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Summary: amazon readers right - book is weak
Review: Patricia Cornwell has written a good series of books but they seem to be going downhill, including with her latest novel, "Unnatural Exposure." It is the latest in the Dr. Kay Scarpetta series. Scarpetta is the Virginia medical examiner. When she's good, Cornwell can write some great, engaging, scary stories. But when's she bad, well, it's not pretty. For most of this book, she held my attention. Some of that momentum was kept up, though, by referring to characters and plot lines from the earlier books - as well as putting off some stories for the next one. The plot itself is good: a serial killer is hurting and killing selected people by releasing a mutated version of smallpox. The killer taunts her by sending electronic mail through American On-Line so the FBI tries to trip the killer up by having the real doctor and "deaddoc," the suspect's on-line name, meet in a chat room so they can trace the call. While the character of Scarpetta is interesting - it's not everyday that a medical examiner is the heroine - she is getting so hardened on the world (shades of Cornwell's famously guarded personality?) that she is becoming gradually less interesting. More interesting is her niece, Lucy, a computer expert working for the FBI who is being hassled because she is lesbian. After reading the book, and feeling the desire to throw it against the wall when the suspect was revealed, I checked to see what other readers thought of it by looking at reviews in Amazon.Com. Sure enough, most had the same opinion: this was a book that seemed rushed and is one of her weaker efforts. Several suggested focusing a story around Lucy instead of Kay, which is a pretty good idea. Overall, the characters in her book are becoming less interesting than I'm questioning whether I'll read another Cornwell book.
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Summary: Not one of her better efforts - disappointing
Review: Patricia Conwell's most recent effort was disappointing, at best. The book was difficult to get involved with. Her characters didn't seem sincere - she did not make you care about them - even the victims. Ms. Cornwell rambled through the story until she had enough pages to classify this as a novel - then ended it. There were too many loose ends and the ending was not believeable. If this had been my first purchase of a Cornwell novel, I can tell you that it would be my last. Get with it, Ms. Cornwell.
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Summary: Marjoleine Felius reviews cornwell
Review: I bought this book for a summer's day in the park read, and just now (november) was able to finish it. This has, of course, everything to do with the fact that this book is awful. I thought at first this had to do with the translation (I read it in Dutch) but after reading the other reviews, I guess its just as bad in english. Unfortunately, it is the first Cornwell book I've read, and I don't see myself reading another one.
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Summary: Enough Already
Review: I enjoyed the first Cornwell novel I read very much (Body Farm), but they have consistantly gone down since then. I read several of the reviews complaining about the ending and realized I couldn't even remember it. Not a good thing for a suspense novel. I believe this is my last run with Ms. Cornwell
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Summary: Patricia Cornwell is back to what she does best!
Review: After the disappointment of Hornet's Nest, it is good to have Patricia Cornwell go back to what she does best - Kay Scarpetta. I fell in love with Kay, Lucy, Marino, and Benton Wesley right from the beginning, and I still feel that way. I never tire of the Kay Scarpetta books! I hope that there will be many, many more to come. Keep them coming, Patricia!!!!
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Summary: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GOOD ENDINGS
Review: What happened to those nail-biting, 'in the dark till the last minute' endings of Cornwells earlier books? I belong to a book club who normally fight over her books, but not lately. Unnatural Exposure starts off so well, and as usual, you are drawn straight into the drama, but it's so dissappointing when the ending is such an anti-climax. Not for the first time. Please Ms Cornwall, forget the money-take an extra year out between books, and work on your plots and endings! Otherwise, we love Kay and Lucy.
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Summary: PCORNWELL UNNATURAL CAUSES
Review: OK everyone is downing her new book. Come on we are getting exactly what we asked for. Kay Scarpetta is back in action and as good as ever. How can you be hard on Patricia Cornwell. She is putting out these books as fast as she can, and doing very well at that,. What the hell do you expect. We want Kay Scarpetta back but do not want to acknowledge that these books have to be written very quickly. This book is great. I would challenge anyone to do a better job than Ms. Cornwell has. If you think you can please let me know. You need a job as a novel writer. Thanks.
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Summary: Not one of her best
Review: It was a relief to get Dr. Scarpetta back after the awful "Hornet's Nest", but this book certainly doesn't measure up to her earlier work. I find it absolutely unbelievable that Dr. Scarpetta would be allowed to leave the isolation unit that quickly. It also bothers me that one of the victims, who is 52 years old, is described as "elderly". Excuse me? If a realistic time line were followed in these novels, Dr. Scarpetta herself would be 50 or very close to that. It seems an author's vanity to have the main character remain ever young and sexy, while her niece ages by approximately l5 years! If Cornwell wants us to believe Kay is one hot mama, she ought to keep Lucy at age l5!
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