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Review title: Patricia! Enough with the violent porn fantasies, please!
Product review: As anyone who's read her work knows, Patricia Cornwell is an exceptionally talented writer of crime novels, with a clear, distinctive, intelligent voice, and a wonderful knack for plot, character, and meticulous research. But the relentlessly sadistic musings of her various bad guys have gotten so far over the top, that they swamp the rest of the book. "The ultimate union with a woman is to release her, to hear her scream and moan, to cover himself with her blood..." blah, blah, blah. All Scarpetta seems to encounter now is the most extravagantly evil sort of cartoon psychopaths, rather than murderers with identifiable human motives. Really, it's creepy, and psychologically wearying to the reader. Patricia, please stop it. All these one and two star ratings are a message. We buy your books because we genuinely enjoy your writing, but you're better than the unmitigated dreck with which "Blow Fly" is needlessly laced.
