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Isle of Dogs by: Patricia Cornwell

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Rating: - A dogs breakfast

A friend gave me this book, in an effort to get it off of their bookshelf. Unfortunately, having said "It can't be that bad" and read it, I can assure you that it really is just not that good. The characters appear to be names with the odd sketch of behaviours attached. The villains are laughable (not "Ha Ha" laughable), and not so much given character sketches as character crayon sketches. Their motives are barely comprehensible, let alone believable (actually, so are the characters themselves).

I held out a little more hope for the protagonists, such as they were, but "Trooper Truth" and the associated characters were just as badly drawn as the villains.

The plot is a disjointed, disconnected exercise in frustration for the reader, who is not left cloaked in darkness while trying to work out what is going on, as much as simply re-reading passages trying to find out what is happenning at all. There doesn't seem to be any coherent structure here, and the only time I came close to understanding this work was when I gave up trying to find some - but I doubt the author was trying to emulate the Illuminatus Trilogy.

The only book I've read in the last five-ten years that I (in turn) will be trying to give away. Simply put, I have no idea if the rest of the books by this author are any good, but avoid this one.

Rating: - Disappointing

I'm a big fan of the Scarpetta novels, but this book is just weird. Not a thriller, not a comedy.

The copy I have doesn't have any quotes from the press on the fly cover, which speaks volumes.

Rating: - Glad I didn't read the review first

Well, I'm glad I didn't read the reviews first. I am a fan of Scarpetta and picked this up thinking it would be along those lines. I was very surprised and initially thought I wasn't going to enjoy the book when I discovered it wasn't written in the same style. However, I enjoyed the light comedy and thought it moved along well. The further through the story I got the more interested I became. I did get a little confused at how it all came together at the end though. Overall, not bad, would consider reading the first two in the series, but not as 'unput downable' as the usual Cornwell I've read.

Rating: - What A Surprise

I didn't know anything about this book before I read it and was very surprised. I was expecting a typical Patricia Cornwell book but this was nothing like her usual stuff.

I really liked it. It was funny, sarcastic and would make a very funny film.

I read other reviews where people have only given it 1 star but I think they are true Kay Scarpetta fans and didn't like the change.

If this was written by someone else (or under a pen name) it would have got better reviews me thinks!!

Rating: - A huge disappointment from a favourite author

This book was a huge disappointment from an author I have always enjoyed. She has tried her hand at comedy - which was not a success - and sacrificed plot, character, pace and tension. The discovery and arrest of the killer in a few brief sentences at the end of the book was absurd. The book jacket describes the novel as "Satisfying storytelling with an intoxicating dash of comedy". It was neither satisfying, intoxicating nor funny.

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