Cameron-Ashley H. (BigGreenChair) reviewed The Bone Bed (Kay Scarpetta, Bk 20) on + 461 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 8
Oh my. Her first 4-5 books were wonderful; I was a true fan. Anything since then is dreadful. I've reached the point I think I need to say she needs to quit writing and do something else. She is living only on dumb people buying the next book who are HOPING against hope this one will be like her very first. This one was really ridiculous. Page upon page of describing driving from one place to another, meals and refrigerator #1 and #2, mental thoughts no one was interested in and worst of all--I swear I read the whole book---at the end the killer identified in last few pages when she said 'I recognized the voice' and she names him--I could not even REMEMBER as a CHARACTER brought out in the book. I was so stunned I went back and tried to find anywhere the man was even mentioned and gave up. I started laughing at myself for being foolish enough to try once more one of her books. Enough. Boring, boring, skip all the driving, conversation, your menus and your likes/dislikes and give us gut wrenching spellbinding story. It's like she tries to write her own personality into the story: egotist, pompous---picky about food (what a name dropper on the food arena, and refrigerator 1 and 2? Absurd.
Helpful Score: 1
Kay & her associates hunt a killer targeting mature women. As like in the last few Scarpetta novels, Kay seems very hardened to me. Not quite as likable as in the beginning. I find her alittle snotty, noone is quite as smart as she is. I'm not sure why Marino sticks around except for the fact he loves Kay. It was still a good Scarpetta book, just wish more of her soft human side was shown,like her time in the kitchen.
I bought this book as a gift for my husband. He has read all of Patricia Cornwell's books. He says he thoroughly enjoyed this book. The characters were well-developed and this novel had a nice flow, as all of this author's books do. As a former police officer, my husband likes this sort of novel since it has a lot of details that he knows a lot about. He is waiting for Ms. Cornwell's next novel.
I got very tired of reading Kay Scarpetta dooks
This one moved slow... by the time the perp was revealed I could not recall who he was affiliated with - still a good story
As always with Cornwell, a fine police procedural with good characterizations.
