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A review by alykat_reads
The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell
2.0
I keep reading this series out of curiosity more than anything. I’ve browsed blurbs of future books and I’m curious but man, some of these make it soooooo difficult to keep going. I was very drawn into the previous book and finished it within a week, and this one took me about 6 to slog through. It was so slow and dull in many parts. This nearly 500 page book could have been condensed to 200-250 pages.
There’s many things I don’t understand.. Why is Kay offended about everything?? How does she find a prosecutor discussing a killers motive ‘personally offensive’?? And she wants to be the victim so bad - “why won’t anyone think of me” - and then the moment they show her sympathy she doesn’t want it and brushes them off. Patricia, please make Kay less annoying, pleeeeease. I’m begging. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; she’s supposedly this super smart ex-lawyer turned medical examiner but some of the things she says or things she does are just plain stupid. I know everyone is human and is allowed some grace, but it’s like an extreme stupidity, and it’s even more annoying. It makes her character so unlikeable.
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how she intends to make it known that Benton isn’t actually dead and bring him back to lifeThere’s many things I don’t understand.. Why is Kay offended about everything?? How does she find a prosecutor discussing a killers motive ‘personally offensive’?? And she wants to be the victim so bad - “why won’t anyone think of me” - and then the moment they show her sympathy she doesn’t want it and brushes them off. Patricia, please make Kay less annoying, pleeeeease. I’m begging. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; she’s supposedly this super smart ex-lawyer turned medical examiner but some of the things she says or things she does are just plain stupid. I know everyone is human and is allowed some grace, but it’s like an extreme stupidity, and it’s even more annoying. It makes her character so unlikeable.