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Summary: I really loved it. I feel like I know this woman.
Review: I loved her moods and her relationships. She is todays woman. In this book she lets you inside and feel her pain and the way she cares about people in pain. Her buddy the cop is a real hoot. What a guy, we should all be so lucky to have a bud like him. Lucy, is a little scarey she seems like she is going around the bend. The mystery is a really good one and the outcome, well I guess you could say it was worth the read. You go girl, your my favorite. Cathi Martin
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Summary: Too much plot, not enough suspense
Review: I liked this book but it was *too much!* Lucy's undercover work ... Kay and sister Dorothy ... Pete's mid-life career trouble ... a thief loose in the coroner's office ... internet fraud ... Kay learning to love again ... any ONE of these would have been a good subplot for the main mystery. ALL of them was simply too much. I enjoy learning about Kay and I think it was important we saw her greive. And I loved the bit with Talley. But I wish Ms. Cornwell would have edited this down somewhat. All this drama happening concurrently is just a bit much to take ... and too much to believe. (Does *every* Scarpetta book have to have Lucy in trouble/peril? Isn't it about time for that poor girl to just have a lazy day?)
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Summary: Same old tired story line
Review: I was very disappointed in the newest Kay Scarpetta book. Same old story line, same old ending. Really is too bad, can't think of an author who's books I have always looked forward to reading.
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Summary: Disappointing. Book should be reclassified as a psych drama
Review: I used to be able to read a Scarpetta book at least twice. Now I have trouble getting through the first read. I guess the author isn't the only one who has lost interest in the series. I'm tired of outlandish and cartoonish killers and I wish Cornwell would learn how to write endings. It's all so old. Kay's mates are killed off, Lucy is nuts and miserable and gun-happy, but always in loving relationships. Kay is always the killer's target. People are always out to get her. There are always a number of amazing coincidences to tie things together in a hasty knot that passes for plot. I'd like more crime and much less of Kay's messy, uncontrolled inner life. Now THAT is a frightening place and I don't want more than glimpses. I don't want to know how unhinged Kay is becoming. I thought I was buying a CRIME novel.
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Summary: Boring, boring, boring......
Review: Scarpetta fans alert! This is one to avoid at all costs. This is a scattered plot that is all over the map. I feel Cornwall must have been under a contract deadline with this one. Never cared for the Lucy/Aunt Kay filler and this time its really at its worst. The romance interest falls flat too. A lot of descriptive gore that really goes nowhere. Thumbs way down!
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Summary: There have been better Scarpetta books
Review: Yes I enjoyed this one and read it within a day or two of picking it up from the bookstore, but there is something missing. I had a hard time getting into this series. I bought one, made myself read it and then didn't read another until Potter's Field which made me go back and read all the ones I'd missed. I couldn't believe Benton was murdered last time and I feel that Kay should be able to deal with the situation in a better manner than she has been doing. I guess I don't want my fiction to mirror reality quite so closely. Don't deal lightly with tragedies, but don't dwell on them either. Deal with it and then get on with life - it doesn't wait for you. Any way - read this so you have the background to enjoy the next one in the series which I hope will return to better days and more intrigue.
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Summary: Back to basics...the author still has an ax to grind.
Review: After Ms. Cornwell's previous two books, Black Notice was at least an escape to her best protagonist, Kay Scarpetta. Ms. Cornwell is at her best with her medical knowledge and interesting twists on the "ghastly murder" themes. However, in her previous two novels, she has had a bitter and negative approach, and her characters didn't seem to come alive. In Black Notice, she is somewhat back to form, but the negativity still comes through in her treatment of characters. I always look forward to her books, but hope she gets her own life better under control. It appears to me that the author is militantly feminist, and quite probably, lesbian. I really don't care, but she needs to be careful not to let her own prejudices show through. Kay Scarpetta has the makings of a fascinating, multi-faceted character, whom the reader might like to get to know...if the author didn't keep antagonizing everyone.
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Summary: It appears that Cornwell has lost a fine editor.
Review: This book is so loosely written, so disjointed, so poorly edited for both grammar and flow, with conversational lines that start nowhere and end in exactly the same place, one has to wonder if Cornwell owes the higher quality of her previous work to an outstanding editor.
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Summary: Another Kay Masterpiece
Review: Once again, Patricia Cornwell has released a riveting, on the edge of your seat mystery. In her latest work, Black Notice, she focused more on the private lives of the characters instead of just the murder case. This is a great new tactic because every case is basically the same, and it is the conflicts between Kay and the people around her that bring the reader back for more. Personally, I can not wait to see her next Kay installment in the bookstores. It is sure to be a thriller just like all of the rest.
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Summary: Pass this one by
Review: Unfortunately for Patricia Cornwell fans, she appears to have run out of fresh ideas for plots involving Kay Scarpetta. This time it seems plausible that Cornwell's publisher wanted a book by a certain date so she delivered. Too bad, because the plot is poor, geographic details are inaccurate, character development is non-existant, and the dialogue is frenetic. For anyone who has grown to care about Kay, Lucy and Marino and who cried at Benton's demise, do yourself a favor: pass on Black Notice.
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