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 enlarge | Author: Patricia Cornwell
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  630 reviews
Sales Rank: 6098
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 0399153934
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399153938
ASIN: 0399153934
Publication Date: October 23, 2007
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 THE WORST CORNWELL - EVER!! September 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I cannot believe this book was written by Patricia Cornwell, nor do I believe it won the prestigious Galaxy British Book Award! Cornwell MUST have used a ghost writer. The sentence structure bears no resemblance to that in her earlier books and the text is juvenile at best in some parts. A highly disappointing read - and a very unbelievable tale.
 Buried story. September 21, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Somewhere under all the really awful writing in this book, a pretty good story line is hidden. I think. I couldn't find it, but there were hints of its existance. As other reviewers have commented, Cornwell's editor needs the courage to tell her to take her crappy manuscripts home and only darken the editor's door again when she's produced a real story.
I must say there was one real pleasure in the book - "Dr. Self," a thinly disguised take on that pompous fraud Dr. Phil McGraw. For a great expose of the real "Dr. Phil" see chapter 3 of Steve Salerno's "SHAM: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless."
But I digress. Cornwell's writing gets worse and worse as her paranoia (conspiracy against her) gets worse and worse. Hey Patty - take your meds and rejoin the rest of us in the real world.
Patricia Cornwell, Take A Vacation September 20, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I cannot believe what one of my favorite book heroines, Kay Scarpetta, has become. Shrill, unfocused, a caricature of her former self. Wesley is pompous, Lucy is a whackjob and Marino needs to retire. So does Cornwell.
After The Predator, I told myself I wouldn't read the next installment but I was overly curious. Now I wish I hadn't. This book is a mess.
first time I've given up on a book September 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a first for me - the first time I've ever given up on a book. I managed to drag myself to almost half way but frankly there are better things to do and better things to read. Awful, awful, awful. This is the first Patricia Cornwell I've read, sorry - almost read, and I can't believe the standard of writing ... pages of dialogue that you have to read 10 times to fathom the sequence, repetition repetition repetition, dreary two dimensional characters and no rhythm or pace to it. I couldn't care less about anyone in the story, least of all whodunnit or why. I think we should introduce the 'no star' category.
High Hopes Dashed! September 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I thought I had sworn off the Scarpetta series after the last one, which was truly awful. But I got reeled in again in the hope that things might have changed. I was wrong, again. Nothing about this book is good. This was just what I needed to reaffirm that I am not going to read anymore new Scarpetta books, or even finish this one. I mean it this time!
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