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Summary: How disappointing!
Review: Briefly, too many great books constantly being published, this is not one. Don't bother. I'm usually one to read a book to the end, no matter what. This is one of the few novels I could not complete. After 100 pages, I still found the characters and plot implausible and not sufficiently imaginary to interest me. Simply, not worth the effort.
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Summary: Disappointing!
Review: I have loved all the other books but this one is sooo bad I can't believe Patricia Cornwell even wrote this. She needs to stick to Scarpetta or something similar.
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Summary: Cornwell gets corny
Review: Having read most of her books it's hard to believe that she had
anything to do with this one. The first few pages would lead one
to believe that this could be a great read. Unfortunately the plot(is there a plot?)and the characters are so unbelieveable.
The dialogue reeks of a 12 year old with a creative writing assignment. Maybe it's all a joke on us, perhaps this was a comedy. I feel bad for Kay Scarpetta. She got dragged into the this poor excuse for a novel and came off looking like an idiot as well. If by chance you read this book and can't get beyond
page 50, do yourself a favor and read an earlier work. I would
suggest "Potter's Field" as a good place to start.
A short note to her editor. You should be fired!!!
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Summary: Patricia Cornwell --no way
Review: Actually, I haven't finished the book...I'm not sure I will. The Tangier Island residents with their backward language and the governor's "submarine ailment" have just about turned me off. I don't think the residents of the state of Virginia will want Patricia Cornwell to move back to Richmond. I'm sure they are humiliated that their state is being portrayed with such inept characters supposedly elected or appointed to uphold the law. Perhaps I'll try to get through another page or two tonight before it puts me to sleep.........
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Summary: Stick to Scarpetta
Review: This book is a mess. It never takes off, the plot is jumbled and incomprehensible, and the characters are sadly unbeleivable. Cornwell is trying to be Carl Hiaasen, but ends up like a bad junior high school creative writing assignment.Pick any Kay Scarpetta novel, avoid this one. If you want good crime/comedy, read Hiaasen.
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Summary: What a disappointment!
Review: Patricia Cornwell is going the way of John Grisham and forgetting to give us what we liked in the beginning. They both have opted for social commentary and exploration of their pet subjects rather than what they started with. I had to force myself to keep reading thinking it had to get better. Kay Scarpetta come back!!
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Summary: Hours of my life I will never get back
Review: Please note the only reason that I even gave this one star is because zero or negative numbers were not an option. I want the hours that I spent reading this book back! What a piece of garbage. I cannot believe one of my favorite authors produced this. What was the point of this book. After this experience I will never again purchase a book by Cornwell without first reading the reviews. The moral of this story is she should stick to the Kay Scarpetta novels, clearly she has no idea how to write anything else. What was with the talking fish? And truly who cared about any of the characters. I think if Popeye really could speak she would have yelled, "Get me the hell out of this nightmare of a novel!"
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Summary: BUYER BEWARE!!!!
Review: If you are a FORMER Patricia Cornwell fan, PLEASE do not jeopardize your status by reading this piece of garbage. I have never been SO disappointed in my life. Not only does it bear absolutely no relationship to her former novels (although a character claiming to be Kay Scarpetta appears briefly), it is NOT funny, and it's an absolute insult to a reader's intelligence. The plot is ridiculous, there is no mystery, the characters are Keystone Cops-type of bumblers - the most unattractive bunch of people you would ever care to come across. A dog reads, a crab talks, a trout thinks deep thoughts. The near-blind idiotic governor has constant diarrhea, and the reader is "privy" to every gastric explosion. There is not one character in this book that a reader could possibly care about.
Anyone who had anything to do with this drivel being published owes the reading public a HUGE apology. I realize authors can't always write books that their readers will enjoy, but beware - you would never know this was written by Patricia Cornwell if her name wasn't on the cover. SAD, SAD, SAD.
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Summary: A DoG of a book
Review: All I can think is that the author recieved an advance and had to produce a book. It is so disrespectful of women and minorities that I'm amazed it was published. She cannot even keep a chronology,(the govenor's daughter eating breakfast with him after he has seen her leave)or remember that her main character can't see.(the govenor watching his daughter leave out a window,when he can't see some one sitting five feet from him) Every one in the book is always running into every one else,in a city with hundreds of thousands of people! It was bad enough that her book about M.E.'s had constant references to things that occured in other books in the blatent attempt to get you to buy her other works,but this god-awful attempt to copy the style of Tom Robbins or Carl Hiassen makes the best case for book burning that I have seen. The names of the characters are so bad,their actions so inexplicable, and their personalities so pathetic there is no way people so stupid could have survived to adulthood,let alone reach positions of responsibility. If you have a woodstove,rejoice,for these books will soon be in the bargain bin selling cheaper than firewood.I am not a negative person and have tryed to find any gleam of a positive aspect to put on this piece of trash,but there is none. Anyone who publishes any further work by this woman deserves everything that they recieve.
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Summary: UNIQUE????
Review: Particia Cornwell really disappointed her fans with this one!
The plot, if you could call it that, was disjointed, meandering from one unbelievable character to another. Who or what was this Unique and what exactly did she add to the story? The sensational glimpse of Scarletta was a cheap shot to lure us in, and the story is entirely pointless from beginning to end. I kept wondering, when will she get to the point?? To spare the readers that have not suffered through this novel, she never does.
The "comedy" was disparaging and racist, and definitely not amusing. This is not a case of smiling behind your hands. The grand finale was a joke, but it wasn't a funny one: (
I could go on and on, but the foremost feeling I had after finishing this "novel" was that I had been cheated. What happened to the precise plots, the delightful twists and the neat wrapping up that are Cornwell's trademarks? Scientific this ain't.
I regret reading the book, and the trouble my friends went through for it to reach me in Sudan.
I recommend her Scarletta series unreservedly, but if you're thinking of buying, save your money.
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