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[bites-the-sun.livejournal.com]

Any (ex)fans of Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta series here?

I ask because it just struck me that the Scarpetta books have declined in quality in a very similiar manner to AB:VH - each series featuring a decent character who rapidly disintegrated into blatant Mary Sue-ishness and with angst replacing plot after the series had achieved some measure of success.

Thoughts?

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[dracoliciousss.livejournal.com]

Wow, I totally agree with you there. When I first read Postmortem, I was completely blown away...thought it was fantastic. I kept on reading, and up til about Black Notice they were still ok, but losing me quickly. Then came blowfly, trace, and predator (might be leaving some out) and i was like wtf did she do to my characters?!?! Cornwell has the same LKH thing of her photo on the back of the book looking exactly like the main character, then claiming its a coincidence. And don't even get me started on what she did to Marino, lol