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Summary: I liked the female characters in this book.
Review: I thought this book was interesting, especially the female characters. I haven't read all of this authors other books, but from the other reviews here, I could be in for a real treat. If they were disapointed in this book, her other books must be great.
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Summary: A TOTAL WASTE OF TIME!!!!!!!!
Review: I found myself waiting for something to happen till the very LAST page. Unfortunately, it seems that another author is cranking them out so fast that they don't bother to write a REAL story. This book jumped around so much you wondered why she didn't write three books that would focus on the 3 main characters. Also, very incomplete story line. If she is not going to write something worthwhile DON'T WRITE AT ALL!!!. I bought this book strictly based on the author's name. WHAT A MISTAKE!! SAVE YOUR MONEY
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Summary: Very disappointed.
Review: This was not at all what I expected when I picked up this book. I just assumed that it would be the continuing life of Dr. Kay Scarpetta. I was very disappointed and hope that future books written by Patricia Cornwell will be returning to Dr. Scarpetta and all of the other characters which I have grown to enjoy with each book. I look forward to any new books written by Ms. Cornwell which include the family and friends of Dr. Scarpetta.
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Summary: CHARLOTTE DOSN'T SOUND LIKE SUCH A HIP PLACE AFTERALL.
Review: Kay scarpetta was a interisting and innovative character. The characters in this novel are not.I will be the first one to admit that Kay was getting formulatic and contrived. It followed the same formula. But this nove has the tottaly oposite problem. It's terribly not formulatic. The novel is at list a hundred pages to long. Miss cornwell introduces to many characters. And some parts are stupid and irellevant. Lets start with a boy who proves to a bunch of drug dealers that he's cool because he attempts a robbery of a chicken resturant. Or why Brazil is getting perverted phone calls. Or why Goode is having brazil followed. Or why brazil's office worker, axel, is gay and lusts after him. And trust me there are more. The action is slow and stupid. Miss cornwell's plot is so contrived that niles the cat actually has thoughts and gives clues to west. Fifty pages or more are spent on Hammer's obesse husband who accidently shoots himself. I mean come on. Or the scenes where hammer and west go to court. Another twenty pages down the drain and for what so that the defedent can be found guilty. Also Miss cornwell's try's at irony just comes of as pathetic. The whole book is supossed to be darkly comic and ironic but it just comes of as flat.
The book is to long and because of the longevity of the novel there really is no ending.The characters and the book just stop. Witch can mean only one of two things.
1. Miss cornwell wants us to think what we wanna think of the conclusions of the characters.
2. Miss cornwell is bringing them back for another go.
I personally think it's number two. And I know this sounds crazy but I'm telling her to do it. It may not a good novel but in a series it might just fight in. I hope you learnt form mistakes miss cornwell.Just keep on writing
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Summary: A little better than watching paint dry.
Review: Not really a novel, more like a few concurrent episodes from a soap. It killed a dull afternoon though.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: The surprise in Hornet's Nest is that Patricia Cornwell wrote it. Not much focus, too many characters, too much background on trivial ones, no development of interest. Read as if it was a collection of ideas for a new series, trying to note threads and details to be used later. Not very professional compared to her past books. Loved Hammer, couldn't care about Brazil, West, Goode, Cahoon. Very one dimensional.
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Summary: abominable
Review: This is unbelievable dross. The characterization is non-existant and the writing is utterly dreadful. Cornwell's books have been in a quality nosedive after the excellent first two. I guess she finally crashed.
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Summary: hornet's nest of a brain
Review: How disappointing. An investigative reporter who "decompensates" when his stories are being hacked, instead of finding out who did it? A cat who gives a clue by dragging wet panties and a five-dollar bill on his mistress' face? Gimme a break. There's only one fairly well-developed character in this entire book (Hammer), and even she isn't entirely believable. This book is a mess, and not worth the money or the trees killed to print it. PC didn't even bother ending it -- it just stops. Is PC decompensating? How else to explain why such an ordinarily fine writer allows such a mess to be printed? And her editors should be ashamed of themselves for allowing such a reputation-destroying book to be published.
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Summary: The book grabbed my attention by the ending was just ok
Review: I read this in one day. It held my attention enough to finish it, I think she is a very good writer but the ending made the entire book seem disjointed. I was waiting for all of the 'artery's' in the book to come together, and was dissapointed when they didn't.
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Summary: Who decided to publish the first draft??
Review: I've been enjoying Scarpetta (although I was annoyed that Cornwell ducked working out the emotional issues by just having her love interest die "off camera") -- but what is this mish-mash? Some of the individual scenes were very well written, but overall the book was sprawling and lacked direction. It also sounded like an unfortunate attempt to capitalize on "The Cat Who . . ." (which I can't read), and an unsuccessful attempt to capitalize on Rita Mae Brown and Sneakey Pie (which I love). By the way, has Patricia Cornwell ever actually seen an Abyssinian? They look like miniature mountain lions and have wonderful golden eyes, not crossed blue eyes (that's a Siamese).
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