Hornet's Nest

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Summary: An inexcusable consumer rip-off!
Review: What a huge disappointment for me and my husband; we enjoyed Cornwell's other books and feel that both she and her publisher took leave of their senses in bringing forth "Hornets' Nest" to an unsuspecting public. What a stinker- it should have had a warning from the Surgeon General: Reading this may destroy brain cells!

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Summary: Not nearly as good as her other books and slow to start with
Review: I was most disappointed with this book.
Not at all up to her usual standard as it was so slow in starting.
When I reached page 100 practically all I had read was that West was a tough cookie and Brazil had an alchoholic mother.
Come back Kay!!


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Summary: Fun!
Review: After reading all of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta books, it was such a relief to pick up "Hornet's Nest." Although addicted to Kay, I find her and all of her co-characters incredibly irritating. At last, at last, Cornwell has come up with characters who are LIKEABLE. Andy Brazil is downright endearing, and Chief Hammer is the character Kay Scarpetta wishes she could be. A lot of people have complained that "Hornet's Nest" looks like a book written by a completely different author. I have to agree, but not as a complaint. It looks to me like Cornwell has finally learned to write.

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Summary: A Fast Fun Read Quite Different from Scarpetta
Review: I was amazed at how many people gave negative reviews to the Hornet's Nest. I loved it! For the first time, I actually got to laugh in one of her books. One mistake everyone who hated the book seems to have made with Hornet's Nest is trying to read it as a mystery. It's not. It is a novel. The fact that is written by a known mystery writer is beside the fact. This is a book about people and their many and varied relationships. I enjoy her other series very much, but to be honest, sometimes I get awfully tired of Kay Scarpetta's constant self-recriminations and her determination to live in the past. I was so glad her last book finally got rid of her dwelling on her last "perfect" love. Hopefully she will begin to live in the present and try to find a little joy in life. Scarpetta can be so depressing and is downright dreary sometimes. I found the characters in Hornet's Nest to be charming, engaging and, sometimes, very sad. I came to care for them very much, and look forward to the next install

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Summary: Great Plot, action the whole time.
Review: I thought it was an exceptionally good book. But if at all possible, the language was what needed toned down. The ending was cut off though, what happened after that

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Summary: What in the world happened?
Review: As a loyal fan of PC, I must say I was disappointed by her book. Aside from the fact that Kay was shining through her absence, there was nothing else to make up for it. The characters were pitiful, the plot was non-existant. The biggest part of the book was filled with Brazil fighting off police crime lines just to get close to the action. That's a character?! When the last couple of pages came about, I finally remembered we were looking for a killer. Just ask yourself: Would it be worth it to buy it and read it on a long flight? Definitely not. Stick to Kay, or at least to the same writing style that made us your fans in the first place.

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Summary: If you enjoy Patricia Cornwell, don't read this one.
Review: I hope we will someday learn about how this novel came to be written AND PUBLISHED. It has several elements of her other novels, but I am of the opinion that this novel had to have been written prior to the novels that gave her the fame she deserves. This one should never have been published (except maybe posthumorously). It may have served as a writing exercise to vent her emotions and feelings, but is more like a pallet of soap boxes. Like a dead corpse, this book would be an excellent literary work to perform an autopsy on to discover in any elements of the real Patricia Cornwell. I will try and forget that this one ever existed and continue to check her new books out from the library

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Summary: Exterminate "Hornet's Nest"
Review: Character study, smaracter study. Patricia Cornwell is one of the best crime fiction writers of the century -- but what was she thinking? "Hornet's Nest" is best left to the Orkin Man. Were we supposed to like Virginia or hate her? And what about Judy -- her character development took an abrupt about-face midway through the book and left the reader confused and wishing Seth had turned the gun on Ms. Cornwell! Perhaps this is the way law enforcement officials behave in North Carolina, but Kay Scarpetta never enlisted the help of a clairvoyant cat to solve a crime. Let's hope that Patricia Cornwell lets sleeping dogs lie and forgets about the characters she's created in this book. And thank you, thank you, thank you for giving us "Unnatural Exposure!"

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Summary: It was hard to believe that Hornet's Nest was written by Pat
Review: I knew that Dr. Kay would not be in this book, but I was sure that a book written by Patricia would have to be good. I had to force myself to finish Hornet's Nest. I believe that Patricia does have admiration and respect for law enforcement personnel. That comes through in this book and her Dr. Kay books. The content was not her usual thrilling and riveting quality. Being a cat lover I did enjoy Niles. She does seem to have insight into the feline population. This gave the book some humor which is refreshing

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Summary: Damn near unreadable - hated it!
Review: I found this book very poorly written, the story lousy, the plot incomprehensible. Patricia, stick with what you do best - your Kay Scarpetta novels! They are GREAT