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The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell

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ellabourgon's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

ingo_lembcke's review against another edition

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3.0

I must admit, it is rather hard to write this review without spoiling anything.
So, spoilers it is. I will mark the entire review as spoiler, so you know what you get when reading this.
Also I skimmed a few of the bad reviews (1-2 star) and I agree, this is so far the worst in the series.

Spoiler

That Mark is missing is ok with me, never liked him anyway. But Kay thinks still too much about him, could have done without that.
Lucy was so far my favorite character, but in this book she is suddenly, without further warning, an alcoholic.
What is worse, and I thought I missed an entire story there, but the skimmed reviews said the same: there is no evidence in the book for that.
Only Kay says it is so. Not very well written and totally unbelievable.
That she is also supposed to be gay, ok, could be experimenting, also not very well written.
Kay hm, too vigilante and dangerous ending, also with Lucy not very satisfying, too neat.

And not very much about the Body Farm, despite the title-giving place.

As I read the first 5 ebooks in this series back2back, I will take a break now.
Still, 3 stars, but also: not recommended and I am not too sure I will read more of the series.

essie101's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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chloerigali's review against another edition

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3.0

Only about 9 pages (just a single chapter) actually focused on the body farm. So bummed because I was really looking forward to learning something, but no...

Merino was annoying. Kay is wonderful, minus having an affair with a married man (come on…). Lucy is… not my favorite. I knew who killed the poor girl the entire book so was not surprised.

OK as a stand alone (haven’t read the others and probably won’t), good writing. Honesty I kinda wish I DNF’d. This didn’t satisfy me.

3 stars.