Title: Cornwell's abusing her readers
Product review: Isle of Dogs is yet another Hammer-Andy Brazil episode valued only as proof that Cornwell is a bored author writing for her own amusement instead of her readers'. This alternate series of books is as bad as the Scarpetta series is good -- and Isle of Dogs is the mutt of this litter. The plot is asinine, the writing infantile and the intended satire woefully un-Swiftian. I suspect this manuscript would have netted quite a collection of publishing house rejection slips had it not been from a prize-winning author with a ready-made readership to fleece. Frankly, I feel abused -- if Cornwell no longer finds Scarpetta entertaining, she should just be honest and quit writing instead of resting on past laurels. As for me, I won't be paying hardcover full prices again for another of Cornwell's non-Scarpetta efforts. I'll either await the paperback, or skip it entirely.
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