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 enlarge | Author: Patricia Cornwell
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  219 reviews
Sales Rank: 2366
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 0399154183
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399154188
ASIN: 0399154183
Publication Date: May 20, 2008
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 This little book is Cornwell's worst. September 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I used to really enjoy Patricia Cornwell's work, but I got very little enjoyment out of The Front. It's a small book, more of a novella than a novel. The publisher reduced the overall size of the book and set the type with line-and-a-half spacing just to make it appear as if you're getting you're money's worth. The plot just doesn't ever develop. Without very much explanation as to how, the 40-something year old mystery is solved. Detective Win reads an old box of files from the original case and without revealing very much to the reader about what he finds in the files, he announces just what had happened. I won't be buying any more books in this series.
 Poor September 25, 2008
I am a Patricia Cornwell fan, but am finding myself questioning as of late WHY???!!! The Front was slow to start and when it did pick up speed, it faltered once again.
Though there were limited pages, it didn't captivate; forcing one to wonder if it was a rushed publication.
Nevertheless, I'm going to give Ms. Cornwell another chance with "Scarpetta" and hopefully it will allow me to continue as a fan and if not, its one less book purchased in the future.
OMG September 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was really really bad. Occasionally, I could see Cornwell's talent come through in a description, but for the most part it was not worth my time to read and certainly not worth paying full price for. Thank goodness I got it through a book club.
The plot was confusing, I'd even say non-sensical. None of the characters were sufficiently developed to make me give a hoot about them or what they do, and she never really explains why they do things in a reasonable way. More than once, I found myself thinking "WTF?" as events in the book took one silly or bizarre turn or another.
No More . . . September 8, 2008
This was my first Cornwell novel, and most likely my last. Glad this was a Library book, I wouldn't have wanted to waste money on such a disappointing novel. I thought the end would tie things neatly together, but it was over so quickly I found the end very confusing. Although I could have gone back and re-read the last chapter, I couldn't put myself through it.
Just don't get it September 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Am I the only person out there who just didn't get what the title of this book had to do with the story? I just keep hoping and hoping that PC will put out a good book again, and it just never happens. I didn't get it with much hope, and it was a good thing. First off, the book is not a normal sized volume; it is small, with short pages and big type with a skinny spine. What happened to the big, thick Scarpetta novels of the 90s, full of details and stories that made you want to stay up all night reading because you just couldn't put it down? Second, the story and the characters were so weak, this was like a short story from high school lit, not the kind of novel that PC used to put out. It jumped all over the place, and the events in the story just made no sense. Then instead of chapters of suspense leading up to and ending that you didn't see coming, but made so much sense, the story was just "ended" on just a couple of pages, with an ending that you're left sitting going "What?!" I probably will always read her novels because I loved them so in the 90s, but I will never spend my own money on them, so that the most I lose is my time. The only reason I finished this book was the fact that it really was only a short story. Did you ever think that a PC novel would be painful to read, and readable in just a couple of hours? It's like all the story in PC has been used up and there is nothing left in there. I hate that I now expect to be disappointed.
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