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A review by jimbowen0306
Isle of Dogs by Patricia Cornwell
1.0
I don’t know if you’ve ever read a book that feels like the author is just too damn impressed with their own wit and brilliance. If you haven’t, and want know what it’s like, this is the book for you.
This Richmond VA based book doesn’t follow Kay Scarpetta, but Andy Brazil, a newspaper reporter, turned cop, as he launches a blog, and investigates why someone would chop a woman up, and leave it on his porch, while at the same time, land pirates are stealing things a la The Fast and the Furious
The book is supposed to be a comedy. There are characters that Ian Fleming would have thought twice about naming (Windi Breeze) and all round hilarity ensues. Because of course it does. Self-proclaimed "possessed serial killers" is a good example of thing we shouldn’t joke about, and yet, here she is, in this book.
To make matters, the book is mean spirited, and condescending, the poor, and African-Americans, with mean spirited commonest throughout the book.
So all in all, not her best work.
This Richmond VA based book doesn’t follow Kay Scarpetta, but Andy Brazil, a newspaper reporter, turned cop, as he launches a blog, and investigates why someone would chop a woman up, and leave it on his porch, while at the same time, land pirates are stealing things a la The Fast and the Furious
The book is supposed to be a comedy. There are characters that Ian Fleming would have thought twice about naming (Windi Breeze) and all round hilarity ensues. Because of course it does. Self-proclaimed "possessed serial killers" is a good example of thing we shouldn’t joke about, and yet, here she is, in this book.
To make matters, the book is mean spirited, and condescending, the poor, and African-Americans, with mean spirited commonest throughout the book.
So all in all, not her best work.