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Autopsy (Kay Scarpetta, #25)
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Yikes, couldn't hang. DNF. I read a third and the author had yet to endear the character to this reader. I think the author depended too much on the reader having read the previous books. I used to be a big fan of Faye in the earlier books. I picked up the first one I read, The Body Farm (5th book in the series), at the LA ABA in the form of an ARC Loved it couldn't put it down. Went back and read the first four and continued to follow the characters as they evolved. I lost interest somewhere after book eleven or so. Great series though. Highly recommend the first ten. Gave the additional stars because of great backlist. :-)
Oops, forgot to add that I won this in a ŷ contest.
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Mar 22, 2022 08:16AM
David: Thank you for this honest review. I was considering reading this one, but now I'll save the time for something else!
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Sandra wrote: "David: Thank you for this honest review. I was considering reading this one, but now I'll save the time for something else!"Yikes. Everyone has different tastes I hope your not making a mistake. The author in this book jumped right in with the aftermath of what happened in a murder. A violation of MAR, motivation, action reaction. We as a reader never met the victim so there wasn't any motivation. We didn't see the murder so there was any action and we really didn't have a reaction because we didn't care for the victim. The first third of the book is simply setting up the setting, the characters and the crime scene. For me that's not following a solid dramatic structure and never dropped me into the fictive dream. Sorry for the rant.
True - everyone does have different tastes and I still think of how interesting I found the forensic in JD Robb's "Forgotten Death", but I have also found with my ŷ "friends"--I respect their reviews ad have been lerd to some excellent reading choices - book I may never have discovered on my own! sometimes I really have to push myself to get to a point in a "highly recommencded book" to discover what the reviewer found so wondrous about it, and then I am glad I pushed on. But this week I pushed on and the book I was reading never caught me up!
.....and then I glance to my reading table and see my copy of Calvin Trillin's "The Tummy Trilogy" which I've been meaning to read for ages and think maybe it's time for a genre change--who wouldn't love reading about food!
Sandra wrote: "True - everyone does have different tastes and I still think of how interesting I found the forensic in JD Robb's "Forgotten Death", but I have also found with my ŷ "friends"--I respect the..."I love ŷ for the same reasons, I've always been an avid reader and now I have found my tribe.
This has sat awhile on my TBR list and now guess I will wait longer before picking it up!
Carolyn wrote: "This has sat awhile on my TBR list and now guess I will wait longer before picking it up!":-)
David, thanks for helping me resist the temptation to read this one. Like you, I lost interest somewhere after #10. But looking back, I see that I missed a couple of the earlier ones. So this is prompting me to go back and read those instead.
I started reading this in February and am still only a third of the way through. I’ve read other books in between. I think it’s time. DNF
I have to say I’m really surprised that some of you don’t care for the newer books. I find them as intense, interesting, and exciting as the earlier books. If the stories followed the same patterns and methods, there wouldn’t be any sense in reading them. However, I think Ms. Cornwell’s writing helps the characters to evolve as she continues the series. I just don’t see the need to “like� a victim or maintain status quote in relationships; that would bore me to pieces.
One edit to my comment about “Autopsy� - status quote should be status quo. My apologies. Happy reading!
I have read all of Cornwell’s Scarpetta novels, but the last five have been a chore to get through. What a stark contrast to her earlier books that kept me awake for countless nights over the years. I keep hoping that Cornwell will get her groove back & return to the style & content that endeared me to her stories, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that isn’t to be. I keep saying this will be my last Scarpetta novel given how much Cornwell’s storytelling has changed, but I’ve hung in there because of my long history with the series.
Autopsy is the fifth Scarpetta novel in a row that I can’t wait to finish. I didn’t even finish Chaos & it’s rare I don’t finish a book. Unless I see reviews of her new novel, Livid, that describe it as a return to the Scarpetta books of the past, I’m done giving Cornwell any more of my time & attention. At this point, the recurring characters have become so unlikable and elitist that and I can’t help but think that Cornwell sees herself as somehow above her readers as well. The arrogance just pours off of each page of this novel, plus the crime stories here are not realistic in the least.
Lise wrote: "I have read all of Cornwell’s Scarpetta novels, but the last five have been a chore to get through. What a stark contrast to her earlier books that kept me awake for countless nights over the years...":-)
Agree. This book is awful.
