Garano je cool!

An enjoyable snarky read. There is no development of relationship with the characters. Ho Hum

beach read

I don't understand what the point of this book was. I really didn't like the style of writing. It felt like the outline of a TV show or movie with sentences half constructed. It couldn't seem to make up it's mind which story it was telling, which was a shame because it held promise. But in the end the cold case wasn't much of a case (especially as the man supposed to be investigating it palmed it off onto a colleague). The DA was awful - in fact most of the characters were awful, apart from Win's Nana.

Bit of a waste of time really.

Lette le prime cinquanta pagine in inglese e abbandonato.
Ripreso dopo un anno in italiano.
La lettura è proceduta così molto più velocemente, ma non mi ha lasciato nulla.
Sicuramente in inglese mi avrebbe fornito, almeno, l'esercizio in lingua.

The first book of the new Patricia Cornwell serie gives mixed feelings. The new character Win, is interesting and well described but after years of Scarpetta, also very very diferent. Not the familiar Kay anymore to lead you through te story.

So thinking as a story on its own I think she did very well. Win gets the task to solve an old murder mystery. His first thoughts seem to be correct, it isn't a simple PR task, there is more behind. When politics get into it, it becomes even more complicated and you know that every second that pases, you can trust people you know, even less.

So, when I say four stars it am completely behind it but it are weaker and different four stars than tose given to a Scarpetta story.
But a good, nice and short (also so differnet from a Scarpetta story) story.

Literally the worst, most cliched, most unreal murder mystery ever. How is this author famous? I kept reading just for the laughs.

The more I read her books, the less I like them. The plots are becoming way too far out. This book is less interesting, than her Scarpetta series.

This wasn't a book in the Scarpetta series, and I had been finding those getting worse with each new novel, so I thought that something fresh may be better to read.
Nope! I honestly don't like her writing anymore. I don't know if it is the writing that has changed or whether it is me that is changing. I do know that my reading has been a lot broader now than when I first started reading PC, so maybe that is it.

In At Risk, I struggled to follow the plot line. I was confused a lot, and felt that I ws meant to know more about the characters without her telling me about them.
I was glad to finish it, but still felt that I didn't really know what had happened and why..............

Good

Viene a ser el hijo bastardo de una noveletta de estornudo, porque estornudas y ¡ooops! ¡Se ha acabado!, y una de playa, porque puedes leer tres frases, irte a bañar volver y ¡sin problema!
Con esto no quiero decir que sea mala, ni mucho menos, creo firmemente que éste tipo de literatura debe existir pero no esperes que te abra los ojos a un nuevo mundo y sacuda los cimientos de tu moral. En resumen: relaja.

Aparte de eso, los personajes se hacen querer (no todos, PARA NADA todos) pero no porque son así de fantabulosos sino que dices "¿a que no va el anormal este y hace esto?" Y va y lo hace. Y hay que quererle. O Nana, a quien no sabes si la quieres por puro instinto de supervivencia o porque es... Es...Es la abuela que el mundo necesita. Incluso cuando hacen cosas mal, regulero, de darte con el libro en la cabeza, tienen sus razones.

En lo del argumento ya... Pues es de eso, de playa, de poder léertelo con tres mojitos en el cuerpo que a la final te lo explican todo, sin presión.

Así que lo que quieres es pasear los ojos por una página langidamente y te gusta el rollo policiaco y el sobreuso de móviles, muy recomendable.

Definitely not the depth or development of any of the Scarpetta series. The characters just didn't have any appeal. The story was mediocre. I stuck with it hoping it would get better but it didn't. That's surprising and disappointing from such an awesome writer.