![]() Thirdly, I just don\’t buy into the Marino falling-out. Now we are supposed to believe that she and the so-called love of her life live mostly apart, communicate by email and nearly seperate when the child-from-hell Lucy comes between them, despite her \’burying\’ him once. Do some research Patricia! Secondly, I found the resurrection of Benton Wesley tiresome when it happened, as it was so clearly a case of major backtracking once Cornwell realised that she actually needed him to pad out the stories quite a bit. In reality the Marino phone tapping would have been noticed by any cheap call logging system, let alone Demi-God Lucy. She then leaves the whole thing wide open without anyone noticing the breach for months. We are now asked to stretch out imaginations to the point that Lucy is richer than Bill Gates and has a highly sophisticated computer network that the US Government, never mind the myriad super-hackers out there, have no idea exists. I keep buying these books in the hope that there will be a return to form but I am always disappointed. Review #5 Free audio Predator – in the audio player below I\’m not even sure I\’ll read the hard copy books I already have. There will be no more purchases of Ms Cornwell\’s efforts. There\’s a gap, then I have everything from \”The Scarpetta Factor\” to \”The Bone Bed\” but, since I prefer reading in sequence, I purchased the books that were missing. A friend gave me her latest books from \”Black Notice\” to \”Blow Fly\”. I stopped reading Patricia Cornwell around Scarpetta # 8 because they were becoming repetitive and way too \”unfinished\”. I purchased her hard cover books from the beginning and thoroughly enjoyed them. ![]() It simply feels like a tabloid insert for no reason whatsoever. The contention and anger traded back and forth isn\’t helpful to the storyline. What happened to make Pete Marino such a paranoid, self destructive, unlikable thug? Is there some new, albeit as yet unreported disease that explains what\’s happening to Lucy? A tumor on the pituitary gland? Come on! For all his character contributed to this story, Benton has become a ruminating boob who may need to go back into the WitSec program. ![]() Have I missed a book? Or, who\’s writing this and slapping the name of a previously well liked and respected author on it? Unexplained questions throughout the story don\’t add suspense, they just had me going back to what had already been read, which is frustrating. Unfortunately, I\’m inclined to agree with reviewers who are questioning first themselves. Review #2 Predator audiobook in series Scarpetta There seem to have been a lot of them lately.\” I totally agree! Scarpetta herself says it best: \”“I’m getting tired of coincidences. The plot twists defy logic and there are enough loose threads to knit a sweater. The characters are two dimensional, there are only the most remote forms of relationships, and there are a plethora of secondary villains with little resolution. He behaves in a degrading fashion to a local female cop who forgives him the minute he can spit out a coherent sentence. Marino is an incredible jerk to everyone, to the point where Kay considers firing him. A few chapters later they are suddenly discussing what to have for lunch and everything is okay. At one point Benton and Kay have a long discussion about splitting up and Kay starts planning on taking her belongings. Once again this further damages Benton\’s relationship with Kay. Like the previous book, Lucy involves Benton in another secret that is kept from Kay. Lucy, the computer genius, apparently never updates her passwords for a year. A number of the behaviors don\’t make sense. There is a multi-page description on how to make gelatin shooting blocks. This reads more like a technical manual where the info is just dumped on the reader. It was done in an artful way that made sense. He slams and slams her with the stock of the shotgun until his arms are too tired to slam anymore.\” What? One of the great things in the earlier books was how Cornwell introduced all the scientific knowledge. \”He kicks and kicks with his big boots until his legs are too tired to kick anymore. It is hard to believe that Patricia Cornwell, who wrote the first ten books in the Scarpetta series, is the author of Predator The beautiful sentence structure and descriptions have morphed into something with a repetitive Dick and Jane feel.
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