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Summary: Don't bother to buy this book
Review: Like others reviewing this book, I am (or was) a Cornwell fan. We are used to Cornwell plots with realistic female characters and a strong sense of suspense. In this book, the characters don't ring true and the plot is less than interesting. Apparently, this is an attempt at humour. Maybe if you are paid huge advances you feel honour bound to fill the quota of titles.
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Summary: Isle of Dogs
Review: One more statement from Trooper Truth and I would have lost it. NOT A GOOD READ
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Summary: Patricia Cornwell must be suffering from stress or boredom!
Review: I'm a faithful Patricia Cornwell follower. I always buy her books without even reading the cover. This book was a shock! I thought that using existing characters was a mistake. Maybe this form of humor would have worked with a fresh cast but these were characters that I thought I knew. I hope she returns to her familiar style of writing. I was very disappointed.
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Summary: Infantile humour
Review: I like Cammy Diaz's review but I hated this book. It was painfully boring, slow to start, slow in the middle, slow to end. The attempt at humour wouldn't even have made a 4-year-old laugh. A couple of the positive reviews attempt to portray this as a continuation of the Judy Hammer, Andy Brazil series. What a crock! Hammer has about 4 paragraphs in the entire novel and Brazil's character has no reasonable relation to anything in the previous books. Something like "find and replace" seems to have been used to change to the main character names so this book could be falsely advertised. It seems very much like Cornwell had been doing some recent research into Virginian history and wanted to find some way of incorporating it into a novel. The end result is the book is interspersed with childish monographs that fall as flat as the infantile humour of the entire novel. A hugely disappointing waste of time and I really tried to give this novel a chance.
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Summary: A "dog" of a book!
Review: ...In an apparent attempt to juice up an otherwise dull plot, the author hauls out all the negative Southern stereotypes, with the result being that most of the characters are gratuitously slow-witted, snaggletoothed and inbred...I'm a fan of his and Cornwell's work doesn't come close. I enjoy humor and can laugh at myself, but her attempts at emulating Southern speech and characters are just pathetic. My family is from the South and I have something of an "ear" for Southern speech, and this "dog" don't hunt.
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Summary: What has happened to Cornwell's former creativity?
Review: I am having trouble even finishing this book which I couldn't wait to get my hands on! Did Patricia Cornwell really write this piece of garbage? It certainly is not up to her former standards!! I definitely cannot recommend it. All her previous books were credible and spell-binding; this one is ridiculous. Has she reached the point where she thinks people will buy anything bearing the Patricia Cornwell name? I sure hope not.
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Summary: Buy this book-it's the perfect kindling!
Review: Cornwell courts the unusual here, and I don't mean unusual as in the latest twisted killer or another gore flecked Scarpetta autopsy scene. I mean the quirky inhabitants of an isolated island. Did I care about the characters? Nope. They seemed forcedly strange, too bizarre, too crazy swampfolkish. Did I laugh? Nope. The jokes were heavy handed. Plot? Argh, matey. It lost my interest. Excuse the pun but she is way out of her depth in this island based allegedly humorous tome. This is all harsh coming from a Cornwell fan like me, I admit it! I had hoped the story would get better but I was disappointed and felt that my time was wasted. Don't make the same mistake!
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Summary: What a disappointment
Review: I have read most of Patricia Cornwell's books and liked, no make that loved, all of them...up to this one that is. What a disappointment from an author with so much technical expertise in forensics and insider knowledge of the intricate workings of a large police force. Neither of which were explored in this book. At first I found the constant misunderstandings of one character by another humorous, then they became overused and annoying. Perhaps this was Ms. Cornwell's way of straying into the world of humor, my advice, stick with what you are good at, your readers like what you write, and you have a loyal following. I would liked to have seen more details regarding the Unique character and what lurked behind the "Nazi" references as her motive for killing. I look forward to Ms. Cornwell's next book. Hopefully I will see the development of an interesting story, complete with fabulous characters exploring the darker side of humanity, rather than just trying to finish the book to make sure the bad guys get their just rewards, and wondering when the darn thing will end. A disappointed, but still loyal fan.
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Summary: PATRICIA CORNWELL SHOULD TAKE ALL THE COPIES BACK.
Review: WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT. IS PATRICIA CORNWELL SO CONFIDENT IN HER READERS THAT SHE THINKS SHE CAN WRITE THIS NIGHTMARISH AWFUL BOOK AND EXPECT HER READERS TO EVER BUY ANOTHER ONE OF HER BOOKS. IT IS INFANTILE (THE NAMES USED), IT IS NONSENSICAL, IT IS AN INSULT TO EVERY PERSON WHO BOUGHT IT. I WISH I COULD GET MY MONEY BACK. I DON'T EVER WANT TO READ ANOTHER ONE OF HER BOOKS. SHE NEEDS TO RETIRE ON THE MONEY SHE GAINED FROM THIS TERRIBLE BOOK.
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Summary: I hated it.
Review: This was the worst book I've read in a long time. The plot is inconsistent. The characters are absurd. This was my first and last Patricia Cornwell book. I threw it away after I finished it. Don't buy it.
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