Scarpetta (Book 8) (Kay Scarpetta) - Unnatural Exposure

So many of her books with Scarpetta are repetitious. One minute the characters are best friends, then they hate each other, then their best friends like family, Then they hate each other. Then their sick, but you don't find out if their cured or still sick,but their still flying helicopters.Back a bunch or books ago Lucy was working with an ex FBI guy and he was like her second in command.
The next book he's gone. What happened? I love series books, but this is to goofy. Some bad guys she keeps bringing back, that would be alright I guess if some of it wasn't complete nonsense.

As usual, Patricia Cornwell brings her characters alive and keeps you spellbound from beginning to end. I truly love her fast paced thrillers. I love the twists and turns that will keep you engrossed until the very last page!!

WOW, you will not be disappointed!!! I was starting to get tired of the same ole-same ole trials Dr.Scarpetta until this one...she really IGNITED the FIRE once again...

THANK YOU, Patricia Cornwell

Next I'll start with your "Not Scarpetta" series!!

I typically go between James Patterson and Patricia Cornwell books on my Kindle... after reading almost exclusively James Patterson for the past 6 months I went back to Patricia Cornwell and purchased this book. It took me over a week to finish this book (usually it takes me 3 of 4 days.) It just didn't hold my interest and the ending was way too abrupt.

This is a well written, exciting but disturbing narrative by a mistress of the creative writing trade. I felt driven to follow the intriguing and highly believable narrative, squirming as I struggled to answer the question....."Who dunnit?"

A torso has been found in a Virginia landfill – just the torso, no legs, no arms, no head. This is the fifth one to be found in a landfill in several months and the tenth to be found internationally with the same MO. Only it’s not exactly the same MO. This time the appendages are severed through the bones rather than through the joints. This time the victim is elderly rather than youthful. This time the dismemberment occurred through a covering rather than being done to a nude body. And this time the stumps of the remaining appendages and the buttocks are covered with a crop of virulent pustules.

Before the lab work can come back on the nature of the virulent pustules, Scarpetta and company discover they have a high-placed and virulent leak of information to the media as well as to local political and legal officials. Scarpetta and Marino are quite certain the leaks are coming from Detective Inspector Percy Ring of the Virginia State Police. Ring has a highly placed uncle in law enforcement and Ring has a highly developed ambition, making it clear that being a cop is only a low rung on his professional ladder.

And it appears that Ring intends to jump several rungs at once by trying to first discredit Scarpetta with the leaks, and then by trying to make a quick arrest before Marino or Wesley can. He then intends to destroy Scarpetta and Lucy by outing Lucy’s lesbian status to the FBI (don’t ask, don’t tell is the current government policy) while painting Scarpetta with the same brush.

Along with the bio-toxin storyline and the sub-plot with Ring, the novel also includes snippets into the relationship between Kay and Benton as well as that of Lucy and Janet. Marino is still his loyal but obnoxious self but is a fairly minor character in this entry.

And, of course, mental allowances have to be made for the fact that this book was copyrighted in 1997, which, as I write this review, is 17 years ago. The Internet was still in its early years commercially and AOL was the primary service provider. Thus, the reader today will have to embrace the explanations of technology long defunct as a history lesson or else slide over it to the meat of the story.

Also, the bio-toxin storyline is a good break from the typical plots that have preceded this in the Scarpetta series. There is still gore and murder and psychopathy but Kay isn’t running from guns, knives or bombs this time. However, it is incredibly clear that she is running from herself.

And with that, I must issue a SPOILER ALERT before I explain why I downgraded my review of a very well written and capably researched novel. This is the 8th book in a series that now contains 21 entries, each arriving about once a year since 1990. Even if reviews previously written on Cornwell’s books or comments made on discussion sites hadn’t alerted me to what happens in the next book and then in the 12th book, I would have picked up serious clues to it in this entry. Even if I had been reading this book in 1997 instead of 2014, I would have known what was to come.

Kay’s former lover, Mark, an FBI agent killed several years ago in a terrorist attack on a London rail station, is brought up – out of the blue – by a colleague near the beginning of the book. Later, again out of context with the current situation, Lucy brings up Mark again, telling Kay that she has not resolved her feelings for him, in spite of Benton. And stuck in the middle of another scene is a comment about Benton being jerked away from their current crisis to attend to an old case, a case he later casually and tersely relates to organized crime. Finally, the epilogue is totally devoted to Kay going to the London rail station to see where Mark was killed, asking Benton for the truth behind the FBI account of the death.

I realize that the more famous authors, and those aspiring to be better authors, plan the basic plots for the successive entries in their series well in advance. Put the four cited scenes that stand out like the proverbial sore thumb with this passage spoken by Kay to Benton, three pages from the end, and Cornwell’s forward path is clear: “I want to know if this is all fiction…How do I know this isn’t some cover-up, some ruse, because he’s alive and in hiding? A protected witness with a new identity…I must know the truth. If it really happened…I believe this is some great big Bureau lie.”

Even in 1997, Cornwell was no rookie in the writing business. While there is no cliffhanger, per se, the telegraphing of future intent is clumsy, at best. Those out-of-context scenes are as obvious as an author solving a crisis by deus ex machina.

Kay Scarpetta is investigating not only murder in this eighth volume of her series, but also a possibly intentional outbreak of a pox-like virus. In fact, she herself might have been exposed!
My impressions:
-I think it's ridiculously sad that one of Kay's staff or colleagues has to die in every book.
-It's also pretty far-fetched that Kay, as the chief medical examiner for the state, has a personal face-to-face encounter with the killer at the end of every book. I don't expect my fictional entertainment to be exactly like real life, but this particular trope is getting pretty old.
-Kay spends some time in quarantine after thinking she might be exposed to the virus and she's not a good patient. She snaps at people who are just trying to help and she's super bored, which is, as you can imagine is also boring to read about.
-Previous to this volume, there was a three book arc in which Scarpetta was chasing the same killer around. This seems to be happening again, as there is another mystery began in this book which is not solved by the end of it.
-I'm getting pretty impatient with the relationship between Kay and Benton. There's no longer any obstructions (i.e. his wife) so, there shouldn't be any reason for them to stay apart, but Kay's prevaricating. Fortunately, now that Lucy is older, her relationship with Kay seems to be improving.
-I enjoyed learning more about viruses and quarantine procedures. Cornwell has definitely done her research here. It's just mystifying sometimes how she can be so accurate and factual about certain things like procedures and time-lines, but then feels like she has to manufacture suspense and manipulate her characters into doing things that seem out of character for them to do in order to create relationship conflicts.
I've read these first eight books pretty much back to back...I think I'm pretty much Scarpetta'd out at this point. I'm going to take a break for a while and revisit this series again in the future.

After the bloated and ridiculous 'Cause of Death', it seems like Cornwell is taking a back-to-basics approach with her latest Scarpetta novel. When a body is discovered covered in pox-like pustles, Scarpetta and the FBI are faced with the prospect of an outbreak of smallpox. But since smallpox has been eradicated from the population, the only answer seems to be "unnatural exposure", a person deliberately infecting others with the deadly disease. But who, and for what ends?

It's pleasing to see that even Cornwell realised that 'Cause of Death' was a bridge too far, and 'Unnatural Exposure' represents a clear pullback from the excesses of that book. The baffling FBI and computer terminology is kept to a minimum, and Scarpetta isn't quite as big a know-it-all (although she still gets plenty of opportunity to attack some more stereotypically sexist male characters). And instead of taking on nuclear-hijacking terrorists, investigating a potential disease outbreak is exactly the sort of thing an M.E. seconded to the FBI would be involved in. In all, it's a leaner and more focussed book, much more in line with Cornwell's earlier works. That should be pleasing for all Scarpetta fans who felt the series was going downhill.

Still, it's clear the series is not quite what it was. There is a real lack of subtelty in Cornwell's characterisation, particularly the men. Apart from love-interest Wesley, every male character is either weak and in need of mothering (Wingo, Pleasants, Marino to an extent) or a sexist oaf (pretty much everyone else). That running joke about mispronouncing the heroine's name is wearing very thin. SCAR-PETTA; it's pronounced how it looks, how could anyone have a problem with it? And the ending is a bit abrupt and unsatisfying....holding a grudge for so long would provoke you to cause an outbreak??

That said, 'Unnatural Exposure' is a clear step up from its predecessor, and a tentative step toward getting the series back to its roots. Not perfect, and not as good as her first books, but a comeback of sorts.

This is a somewhat interesting, Dr. Kay Scarpetta mystery, replete with its usual attention to forensic detail, as well as a myriad of subplots. Though not her best novel, it still manages to entertain the reader.

Once again, Dr. Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner, finds herself on the hunt for a serial killer, when the body of an elderly, dismembered woman is discovered in a Virginia landfill. Moreover, a mutated, high tech, variant small pox virus appears to be on the loose, and Dr. Scarpetta finds herself receiving taunting emails from the alleged killer, signing as "deadoc". Couple all this with an overly ambitious and unscrupulous law enforcement agent named Percy Ring who arrests an obviously innocent man for the elderly woman's death, and the reader has an intriguing mystery to unravel.

Homicide Detective Pete Marino is pivotol to the success of this book. His relationship and repartee with Dr. Scarpetta contribute to many of the book's highlights, and it is he who gives dimension to the book, as he is simply a wonderful, down to earth character. Dr. Scarpetta's relationship with FBI Agent Wesley Benton is less memorable, as he is on the periphery of the story, for the most part, though in the end he provides closure for the torch Dr. Scarpetta was carrying for her ex-lover, Mark.

The only real fly in the ointment, however, is the continued appearance of Dr. Scarpetta's niece, Lucy, who is an obnoxious character. In the real world, Lucy would not be allowed to hold the position of responsibility that she does in the book, due to her compete immaturity. She is a loose cannon waitng to misfire at any moment. It flies in the face of her professionalism that Dr. Scarpetta seems unable to fathom this, but blood is thicker than water.

The ending is somewhat surprising, though in retrospect, the clues are, in fact, there for the reader to discern the identity of the killer. The problem is that the resolution occurs almost too abruptly, as if the author had only a limited number of pages in which to wrap it all up. While the book moves somewhat slowly for the most part, the last few chapters move at lightning speed. A better editing job may have helped make this book into a more cohesive, better written mystery. Still, Kay Scarpetta fans will find something to enjoy in this offering.

I listened to Cornwell's earlier Cause of Death and Unnatural Exposure on tape and Unnatural Exposure is better. ... Cornwell has created a first class nail biter that is flawed because of artificially created tensions, some poor characterizations and inconsistent philosophy.
The mystery/thriller works pretty well on that level. The plot follows Cornwell's heroine Kay Scarpetta initially through a serial killer's dismemberings to a possibly contagious disease outbreak. There are twists and turns although the ultimate outcome is no great shock. Unnatural Exposure follows a standard path although most stories of this ilk have a premature solution that turns out to be false. I.e. the wrong person is arrested or found dead. In this one an innocent person is arrested but the reader knows it's a false arrest from the word go. There is also someone found dead but it's pretty obviously not the guilty party. Along the way we get graphic and gory forensic details of autopsies making the novel unsuitable for reading around mealtime.
There are several problems with the novel aside from the mystery. Cornwell's agenda gets in the way sometimes and she has fillers that detract from the story.
Earlier in the story Scarpetta receives pictures via email that are described as gif files. All the pictures I receive are jpgs. Maybe this is an indication that the novel is becoming dated.
I had a problem with some of the artificially created tensions. In particular, I found it offensive that airport security people would be portrayed as boobs for doing their jobs. Scarpetta shows up at the airport with body parts and hazardous materials and the security people and flight attendants are made to look like fools for questioning her the way they do. It seemed to me that she was the one who deserved the criticism for not notifying them in advance. Scarpetta also keeps quiet long enough to create confrontations instead of diffusing them and she's supposed to be the heroine.
The characters are generally poor. Benton Wesley, her sometime lover, is non-descript. Merino, her friend and sometime foil, has some character. However, her niece Lucy is really obnoxious. Cornwell portrays Lucy as being the victim of discrimination because she's a lesbian. Actually someone this obnoxious is unlikable regardless of sexual orientation.
However, the real holes are in the philosophy that Cornwell puts in. Essentially, she has a new age non-judgmental philosophy which is fine if it's consistent. For instance, she refuses to accept that there might be legitimate principled opposition to some of the views that she holds dear. People with opposing views in Unnatural Exposure are invariably jerks if not crooks. How judgmental is that to portray those with contrary views in a very judgmental light? Another problem that I had is Cornwell's dismissal of Scarpetta's affair with the previously married Wesley. The reader is told that Wesley's colleagues blame her for his marriage's failure when in fact it was Wesley's ex-wife who ran off with another man. Cornwell ignores a number of things. First, whether or not Wesley's ex-wife ran off in no way makes their adulterous affair acceptable. Second, perhaps if Wesley hadn't been fooling around with Scarpetta and had spent more time with his wife then maybe he would have been able to save his marriage. Third, Wesley should have disabused his colleagues about the cause of his failed marriage. Allowing Scarpetta to be viewed as a Jezebel seems inappropriate and inconsiderate given Cornwell's non-judgmental tone. Yet another problem is the penchant for male characters in the novel to approach tears or come to tears under duress. In particular, why does she portray the gay men in this way? If as is obvious in the novel she is trying to portray gay people in a positive light and argue that they are just the same as straight people, why don't the gay men "take it like men?" I really found these logical inconsistencies got in the way of the story. Cornwell would have a better story if she wasn't trying to preach or if she needs to preach then she should be consistent.
Overall it's a good mystery but the non-mystery problems take it down a notch.

The life story of Kay Scarpetta continues, and if it weren't so fascinating the reader would have been bored with this character books ago! Scarpetta is a fictional person we can sometimes relate to and other times we're just in awe of her intelligence and fortitude.

In UNNATURAL EXPOSURE, Kay Scarpetta is after a serial killer who plants mutilated bodies to throw those less intellectual off the trail. Scarpetta is led through the scary world of mutant smallpox and the spreading of this disease through common commodities and free offers. Has your imagination ever wondered about that free sample you received in the mail - what if...? Not only does Dr. Kay have to try and figure all of this out; she must piece together the clues left for her in an AOL chat room. (Gee, wonder how much AOL paid Cornwell for the advertising).

This book contains the type of story and characters that has made Patricia Cornwell one of the best mystery writers today. She points your imagination in a certain direction and then nourishes it so it can run wild. She mixes enough speculation with real life that as I read, I wondered what was fiction and what was factual. I'm definitely going to have to look into that DataGlove and VPL Eyephone that Lucy gives Kay Scarpetta to take a virtual tour of the e-mailed crime scene. That is definitely intriguing, but is it something of today or of the future?

If you haven't read any of Cornwell's books, or if you somehow missed this one in the Scarpetta series, grab the first copy you see. I'll bet you won't be able to put it down (just like me)!

Upon finishing "Unnatural Exposure" I found myselfwondering if Patricia Cornwell had spent much more time writing thebook than I had spent reading it. Fortunately, I got my copy at the Price Club, and got my money's worth -- a couple of evenings of mindless diversion, at about the same investment, both financial and mental, of seeing "Good Burgers" and "Air Bud" Her slap-dash treatment of technical issues makes me wonder if the descriptions of forensic medicine (about which I don't know much) are as muddled and erroneous as those of computers and networks (about which I know a lot more). And what about all those characters whose stories are never resolved? Did Investigator Ring get his comeuppance, or did he succeed in ruining Lucy? Or is that just grist for a future story? The "climax" was so abrupt as to seem perfunctory -- I can hear the editor saying "Pat, your page budget is only 335, so you'll have to wrap it up in the next 8 pages; just pick somebody and make them the villan! Don't worry about your plot and character development; you can just pick them up in your next book. Oh, and will you throw in an epilogue that wraps up Kay's love interest loose ends while you're at it?"
I have bought a Scarpetta three-novel collection including "Post Mortem", also at the Price Club, to see if Cornwell's work deserves more attention. Looks like I'll be able to get through the whole thing while I'm on a week's vacation. Cornwell may make the best-seller lists, but she's not going to rival authors such as P. D. James on anybody's best writer list.

Once again Patricia Cornwell produces a very fine book. The plot of Unnatural Exposure is tight and well thought out. The reader gets a good feel for the characters and understands them. I don't agree that this book is a let down. Others is this series may be better, but Unnatural Exposure did not turn me off from Ms. Cornwell. This is a very good installment to a wonderful mystery series. I would suggest that if you were just starting this series, go back to the beginning. This series read out of order is no fun at all. Ms. Cornwell does a good job of telling the reader what they need to know from the other books. But you won't fully understand the characters and why they are like they are. The Kay Scarpetta series is like a soap opera, you can figure out what is going on, but don't fully understand why. These characters have been through a lot together, they understand each other, that is why they take so much abuse from each other. The reader has to understand this too, or they won't be able to understand the abuse the characters can dish out to each other. I'm not going to bore you with a rehash of the plot. There was one point of the plot that bothered me; Ms. Cornwell let Dr. Scarpetta get sloppy in her morgue. I don't understand why this had to happen, but you know we are all human, even fiction characters. This is still a great read and a very fun series. So get started, on the first one.

The eighth novel in Patricia Cornwell's series of books centered around the world of Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta finds the good doctor up to her elbows again in a case that draws heavily on the past. Someone is dumping dimembered torsos into landfills, and it's a thread that dates back to a similar case ten years prior in Europe. The question is whether this is the same killer or perhaps a copycat. Along the way, Scarpetta gets exposed to a deadly pox virus--the same one found on the last discovered torso and one that is spreading through a local crabbing town located off the mainland. While in quarantine, Scarpetta manages to lure the killer--screen name deadoc--into a chat room on the internet in an attempt to ferret out his location. As with most of her previous novels, Cornwell's greatest strength beyond her own personal knowledge of forensics is the relationships she's established throughout the run of the series. Scarpetta's relationship with police detective Pete Marino remains the most honest and fascinating of the bunch, while her on/off relationship with profiler Benton Wesley remains nothing more than a boring and uninteresting sidenote. In the end, though, this is another solid entry in Cornwell's already considerable catalog.

This is a somewhat interesting, Dr. Kay Scarpetta mystery, replete with its usual attention to forensic detail, as well as a myriad of subplots. Though not her best novel, it still manages to entertain the reader.

Once again, Dr. Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner, finds herself on the hunt for a serial killer, when the body of an elderly, dismembered woman is discovered in a Virginia landfill. Moreover, a mutated, high tech, variant small pox virus appears to be on the loose, and Dr. Scarpetta finds herself receiving taunting emails from the alleged killer, signing as "deadoc". Couple all this with an overly ambitious and unscrupulous law enforcement agent named Percy Ring who arrests an obviously innocent man for the elderly woman's death, and the reader has an intriguing mystery to unravel.

Homicide Detective Pete Marino is pivotol to the success of this book. His relationship and repartee with Dr. Scarpetta contribute to many of the book's highlights, and it is he who gives dimension to the book, as he is simply a wonderful, down to earth character. Dr. Scarpetta's relationship with FBI Agent Wesley Benton is less memorable, as he is on the periphery of the story, for the most part, though in the end he provides closure for the torch Dr. Scarpetta was carrying for her ex-lover, Mark.

The only real fly in the ointment, however, is the continued appearance of Dr. Scarpetta's niece, Lucy, who is an obnoxious character. In the real world, Lucy would not be allowed to hold the position of responsibility that she does in the book, due to her compete immaturity. She is a loose cannon waitng to misfire at any moment. It flies in the face of her professionalism that Dr. Scarpetta seems unable to fathom this, but blood is thicker than water.

The ending is somewhat surprising, though in retrospect, the clues are, in fact, there for the reader to discern the identity of the killer. The problem is that the resolution occurs almost too abruptly, as if the author had only a limited number of pages in which to wrap it all up. While the book moves somewhat slowly for the most part, the last few chapters move at lightning speed. A better editing job may have helped make this book into a more cohesive, better written mystery. Still, Kay Scarpetta fans will find something to enjoy in this offering.

Okay, okay, okay. I know there are legions of Cornwell supporters who firmly believe that the Richmond writer is the next Agatha Christie. And as a "johnny-come-lately" to the Scarpetta phenom, maybe I was expecting too much from Ms. Cornwell and her doctor/lawyer/super-sleuth. However, having read all of the existing Scarpetta novels over the last year and a half, I can only believe that the author's attention to medical, legal and technological detail is very much getting in the way of her attention to plot, character and pacing.
In this latest venture, Kay is once again contemplating her feelings towards Bentley (she does this every hundred pages or so, whenever she has a moment of free time). Once again, a dangerous psychopath has targeted Richmond (!) for a sick and twisted plot to see revenge for a past injustice --one which is hastily explained in the last ten pages of the novel. Once again, Kay Scarpetta has become the focus of the fiend's attention. (Doesn't this happen in every town? The M.E. is ALWAYS the focus of nutjobs, psychos and bully-cops, not to mention the local press!)
Instead of a fast-paced whodunit filled with fresh, interesting characters, we get the same old Scarpetta who spends WAY too much time telling the reader how busy and tired she is. Sister, we'll all busy and tired. Stop whining and chase the badguys.
No arguement that Cornwell researchs her books beautifully. Her descriptions of Richmond and the Richmond area are accurate and make me remember fondly the time I spent there a few years ago. And she knows her stuff when it comes to the material: If and when I want to grow a mutant strain of smallpox, I know just where to go.
But a good book makes you care about the characters in the book you're reading, not about what they'll be doing in the next sequel. My suggestion is to shake things up, Patricia. Make us care about Kay and Marino and Lucy again. And please let Scarpetta go on vacation!!

UNNATURAL EXPOSURE is a good book, but not Cornwell's best. It appeals to me because it is set in Virginia, where I'm from. Cornwell also makes for a few surprises along the way. However, her Dr. Kay series is on a rapid decline in terms of subject matter. This particular book is the victim of decline, but is still good.
On the tiny and closely knit Tangier Island, a woman has died at the hands of a strange new killer. Dr. Kay Scarpetta has been called in to investigate. Early in the investigation, the killer contacts her via AOL with the frightening screen name DEADOC. They give her a virtual tour of a gruesome scene. With little to go on, Dr. Kay faces a new breed of killer. Moreover, she could be next...
This book is not the best, but it is a good read. It deals with a variety of issues aside from the crime aspect. It deals with homosexuality (a recurring theme in Cornwell's latest works),AIDS, vulnerability, and betrayal. If any of these topics bother you, I would not advise reading this novel. However, if you are an avid Cornwell/Scarpetta fan, or just enjoy good reading buy UNNATURAL EXPOSURE today.

Having read some of the other reviews posted, I realize that bestselling authors all eventually become victims of their own success. People seem to elevate an author to an "Unnatural Status," so that anything she writes doesn't meet their expectations, based on a skewed memory of earlier work. I have read the entire Scarpetta series in the last year, and this book is a solid entry in the series. I for one do not think Postmortem was Cornwell's best book, for all the awards it won. It is my least favorite of the series. I suspect that regular Cornwell readers may look back at that book with nostalgia, but I suggest they reread it after all these years -- they may have more of an appreciation for this latest book. I certainly believe the books have gotten better and better. Hey, it is what it is. I picked it up on a Sunday afternoon, and couldn't put it down until I turned the last page, which means it was a darn-good read. The final test (which this book passed easily) was that I regretted having finished the book so quickly, as I would have to wait another year for the next Scarpetta story

In this installment of the Kay Scarpetta series, the author again demonstrates her excellent story-telling skills. She is superb at plotting these gothic, yet not too gory, thrillers.
Just a couple of problems, though, that led to this book being only just satisfying. First, after weaving an intricate plot over several hundred pages, the revelation of the bad guy is quite rushed and an anti-climax - it was all over in just paragraphs and I'm not completely persuaded of this person's motivations. Secondly, the author's characterisations are going off beam somewhat. The verbal exchanges of the characters, and Scarpetta's own narration, are at times superficial, predictable and quite sophomoric (to use a word that crops up regularly in this series). As a result I would have been happier to give this book three and a half stars, if that were available.
Much as I find Scarpetta an iconic figure in the genre, this really relies on earlier installments in the series. The stories would need to tighten up in the areas mentioned above before I'd again rank the series with the best in the genre.

I've been reading the Kay Scarpetta series in order from book one, and if you are reading the series, by all means don't skip this one. That said, I got lost in some of the forensic details, I'm just not as up on my saw blades as I should be I suppose. As you can tell from the book jacket, there are murders where the bodies are dismembered, arms, legs and heads sawed off. There have been previous cases in Dublin, and in Virginia. The latest doesn't seem to match that killer though. (we never know who that killer is) The book goes on to a pox like virus and a national health emergency. The killer was introduced early on, but I didn't see the clues leading up to the revelation. But by then, I was just trying to keep up with the different scenarios and lost somewhere in the microbiology and saw blade details.

In a long running series such as this, there is bound to be a book that everyone doesn't connect with. It will not deter me from reading the next one.