Blow Fly

I very much dislike this book. I\’d bet it was written by someone else, the syntax is different, the cadence is different, the primary characters are wrong, and the book is even written in 3rd person, unlike all the prior books in the series. This book sucks. If you want the spoiler, I can summarize the 2 plot items you\’ll waste hours extracting. If it saves you the misery of reading this drivel, I\’ll consider it a consolation prize. Maybe the next will suck too, not sure; but after several engaging books, this is a poor example of the written word, and a complete waste if my valuable time. I might be done with this author for good.

The early Scarpetta novels were well-paced, full of character development, and fun to read. This was disjointed and flat. I spent the entire book waiting for the story to get started. When I reached the end, I wasn\’t sure what had been accomplished, how we had gotten to where we were, or what the actual point of the story was. Not worth the effort…to read or to write.

I\’ve read quite a few Scarpetta books and know the characters. With past experience in mind, I thought this one would be good. I was dissapointed as it was needlessly long in some portions of the story where I found myself skipping through much of it as it didn\’t really add that much. I finally got to the climatic end and it did just that – ended suddenly. I know the author wants cliffhangers to spur sales of the next one, but this was really sub par in how it was handled IMO, especially in light of how the long winded story lines were done through most of the rest of the book.

I’ve read every Patricia Cornwell Scarlett’s Mystery, except for this one. I stopped reading this one when it became too graphically gruesome. I am officially in mourning.

Can I give Blow Fly 0 stars? Terrible! It seemed as though this book was written by a totally different author – completely different writing style & story telling. No longer is Dr. Scarpetta telling the story in the 1st person, & there was a good bit of revisionist history. Did Cornwell forget the story arcs from the previous books? Also, while the previous novels in this series were somewhat graphic, this one was simply gross & bordering on pornographic. I almost quit reading it after the first few chapters but kept hoping it would get better. It did not. The ending was terrible & made no sense at all. I\’m not sure I\’ll be reading any more of this series. A sample of the next one seems to contain the same priblems as this one.

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