Predator is a crime fiction novel written by Patricia Cornwell. Patricia Cornwell writes Dr. Kay Scarpetta-series and the Predator is 14th of them.
I haven´t read any of these Scarpetta-books before and it really annoyed me the whole time because I didn´t knew anything about the characters and their past. Patricia Cornwell clearly thought that everyone who reads this book has also read all her books. A lot of things (mostly the relationships between the characters) remained as mysteries to the end. I didn´t like Cornwell´s style of writing, I think she just isn´t a good writer. Her describing was pale, it didn´t touch anything inside of me. It was very confusing that the story teller changed between the main characters all the time.
The idea of the plot is pretty good, but it´s execution was horrible. It just didn´t work out. The whole book was very disorderly and the reader couldn´t catch the main points. Plot just jumped around with no clear goal. I think the best thing about crime novels is absolutely that you can also be one of the detectives and guess who will be the criminal and crime novels can be extremely hooking.
I am bookworm and I never drop out the book I´m reading, because then the books starts to haunt me because I don´t know the end of it. If this wasn´t a school project I would have returned this book to the library after the five first chapters . Just because this book is incredibly boring. I still somehow hoped that maybe, maybe it could get better at the end of the book. I´ve never been so wrong. The end of the book is the most terrible thing about the book. It feels like that the writer just quickly gathered everything and calmly told who was the horrible raping slaughterer. It all just happened so quickly (like in thirty pages) that it made me feel like ”Hey, wait, after all this boring nonsense you just end this stupid book like this?!”