Helpful Score: 1
I have waited a long while for another Kay Scarpetta mystery/thriller. This wasn't it.
It's a thick book and half of it was unnecessary. There was a lot of excessive character development. I was most unhappy in that realm with the lengthy interactions early with Oscar Bane,who is a relatively unimportant character and whose story is summarized only briefly towards the end of the book. I still don't understand the main "victim" in this book. And, why was it so impt to refer to the other victim as The Shrew for half the book when her name had no bearing on anything that happened. Then there was the cop who graduated Med School but became a cop AND in his spare time took part-time jobs. Huh?
Also, I'm afraid that what once drew me in to the Scarpetta mysteries, the main characters, have lost their appeal. The relationship with Kay and Benton is taxing to read through.... Lucy is unfortunately portrayed too much as in need of relationship and seems to always have to have a failed relationship storyline (or in this case building it up to fail in the future). It's just not real. And, Marino, is not the Marino we loved and hated. He seemed bland. It felt like Kay was groping at times for a role in this book. This book is named Scarpetta. One would think it was about Scarpetta....
I'm probably being generous giving this book 2.5 stars. I just did not like it.
It's a thick book and half of it was unnecessary. There was a lot of excessive character development. I was most unhappy in that realm with the lengthy interactions early with Oscar Bane,who is a relatively unimportant character and whose story is summarized only briefly towards the end of the book. I still don't understand the main "victim" in this book. And, why was it so impt to refer to the other victim as The Shrew for half the book when her name had no bearing on anything that happened. Then there was the cop who graduated Med School but became a cop AND in his spare time took part-time jobs. Huh?
Also, I'm afraid that what once drew me in to the Scarpetta mysteries, the main characters, have lost their appeal. The relationship with Kay and Benton is taxing to read through.... Lucy is unfortunately portrayed too much as in need of relationship and seems to always have to have a failed relationship storyline (or in this case building it up to fail in the future). It's just not real. And, Marino, is not the Marino we loved and hated. He seemed bland. It felt like Kay was groping at times for a role in this book. This book is named Scarpetta. One would think it was about Scarpetta....
I'm probably being generous giving this book 2.5 stars. I just did not like it.
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