Why do I keep torturing myself by reading Cornwells books? I still have some faint hope that she will go back to writing Kay Scarpetta and Marino and Why do I keep torturing myself by reading Cornwells books? I still have some faint hope that she will go back to writing Kay Scarpetta and Marino and Lucy and Benton the way all the fans enjoyed them. This book was 400+ pages of rambling, vague nothing. I still have no idea what was happening, how anything was connected and why we should even care. There is no story, and these characters have turned into vapid, one dimensional bores. ...more
*Sigh* I really want to like the Kay Scarpetta series again. I had a really hard time getting into this one, but I kept finding myself drifting off, r*Sigh* I really want to like the Kay Scarpetta series again. I had a really hard time getting into this one, but I kept finding myself drifting off, realizing I had "read" several pages and had no idea what I read. 512 pages that takes place over 24 hours. 512 pages of rambling on about nothing.
The characters are flat. At least she stopped writing Marino as a cop turned bad biker. There is no chemistry between Kay, Marino or Benton. And no character development of any other characters. I often times had no idea who was who and how they were connected or why I should care. Very poor story development. No explanation of why the bad guy has a grudge against Kay.
Then Cornwell tosses in a backstory that Kay was called to the Sandy Hook shooting....and she keeps mentioning it but never gets into it. It's just so out of place.
I still think Cornwell stopped actually writing this series years ago and has someone else writing. ...more
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