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What happened to this series?

Revisado: 02-14-23

Repeating what many have already said. Seems like a different author wrote this. Weak story and horrible narration. Poor distinction of men vs women, but more so terrible lack of inflection in voices and or badly portrayed characters! Use of vulgar language seemed forced! Just overall badly done!

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Time to retire Gabriel!

Revisado: 08-04-21

So far fetched and sad to leverage what is going on in our political landscape when a book should help us escape the craziness. Disappointed in Silva for dragging us back through what was happening in the US during the last 12-18 months and not in a constructive way. What was the authors agenda in doing this? As for the story line, it was basically recycled from all the last books and the ending was so bland! It really is time for Gabriel to retire. If there are more books in the future, I am done unless I can find that the story and characters are totally refreshed!

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Disappointment and not up to Gerritsen standards!

Revisado: 08-04-21

Seemed like this was written in a rush, especially the ending, and clearly not up to Tess Gerritsen standards! I find it interesting when an author, co-authors with someone else, how it changes the whole flow of the book. Although a well worn story line, it seemed like the first half might have been written by Gerritsen, with the usual twists and turns and interesting characters, but the second half got so predictable and seemed very rushed. And as someone else said, the fowl language wasn't in character for Gerritsen and didn't seem necessary in the story telling! Disappointment!

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Worst yet!

Revisado: 11-03-19

22 hours of a meandering story where I easily lost interest with side vignettes that really didn’t add to the story. Parker books have lost their way! The narration continues to be horrible. Local dialects are terrible and I have commented before about the poor portrayal of women’s voices. No woman would ever sound this way and they all sound the same! I would be challenged to read another Parker book and being from Maine, had really enjoyed the first few!

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Narration is terrible, story overall good.

Revisado: 11-07-18

As a native of Maine, I am insulted how we are portrayed. All the women sound the same, sound foolish and a terrible attempt at a “Downeast” accent! The men aren’t much better. The Charlie Parker series has had multiple narrators, none of which have really found a consistent”voice” for Parker or the other characters. I continue to finish the books, but see that Harding continues to be the reader and am bracing myself. If the characters are cold hearted killers, don’t make them sound so foolish!

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Very Disappointing

Revisado: 03-11-18

Loved first book, liked second, not so much third. Story line builds slowly, is disjointed with side storylines thrown in with no context. Killing and sex contrived with a forced, quick and abrupt ending that leaves you shaking your head. Seems like author committed to a trilogy and ran out of steam by the third book!
Poorly executed! However, narration was superb....helped me keep listening!

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Female version of Harry Bosch

Revisado: 07-27-17

Enjoyed the book for what it is, however, didn't feel it was much different than a Harry Bosch story line, his character traits, or stereotyping of overused police politics. Was hoping for a new creative character and storyline, but didn't rise to that level.

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Clone of Stephanie Plum series, same characters including narrators voice, just different names! Terrible lack of creativity!

Revisado: 07-19-17

This series is nothing more than Stephanie Plum with some subtle changes. Using the same narrator as with the Plum series, who is excellent, is a mistake as she duplicated the character voices. Not worth reading unless you just feel you are okay reading a Plum book but with different names!

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Terrible

Revisado: 02-08-17

This book didn't even seem like James Patterson had written 1 word of it. Felt like a rambling story and the highs and lows of the main character's life felt very contrived and hard to believe! If they were trying to write a suspenseful novel as write-up teases, big failure! If they were trying to expose a cause in the Catholic Church, big failure! Poorly written, bad narration and characters never really developed. A wasted credit!

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Disappointing and boring

Revisado: 11-09-15

Having read all the Scarpetta novels, I have grown increasingly frustrated with the direction, tone, and lack of substance to the last few books. Early on Scarpetta was a strong woman solving interesting crimes, now she is demeaned to being paranoid, angry and yelling most of the time. None of the characters have been developed any further, stuck in time, and Merino is nothing but a fool who is mostly yelling profanities. Very disappointing from an author I used to admire....

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