Audiobook10 hours
Dust
Written by Elizabeth Bear
Narrated by Alma Cuervo
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear has been called one of the best science fiction authors of her generation. In Dust she skillfully spins a classic science fiction trope-the lost generation ship-into a complex and compelling tale of fallen angels, secretive family politics, and sexual taboo. "Extraordinary ... [a] brilliantly detailed, tightly plotted, roller-coaster ... replete with a fantastic cast of characters." -Booklist, starred review
Author
Elizabeth Bear
Elizabeth Bear won the John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer in 2005 and has since published fifteen novels and numerous short stories. She writes in both the science fiction and fantasy genres and has won critical acclaim in both. She has won the Hugo Award more than once. She lives in Massachusetts. Visit her on Twitter @Matociquala.
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Reviews for Dust
Rating: 3.3882978893617017 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
188 ratings14 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quirky sidekick aside, this is a thoroughly post modern story. With sexual and gender fluidity replacing/complementing cis female/male perspectives, it thankfully doesn’t detract from a fascinating novel. Warning - it will take a number of chapters to determine just what the hell is happening, and occasionally the narrator doesn’t make it clear which character is speaking. A speculative fiction novel that challenges.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This reminded me of some of the older Kay Scarpetta stories. This is one of the better ones I’ve read in quite a while. I kind of took a break from Patricia Cornwell and apparently it was worth it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is an exciting Scarpetta thriller that made me guess for a long time to find the answer to the puzzle.A woman is found dead. The details are the same as the victims of the murder that Kay's husband is dealing with. Is the killer in the Boston area now? It almost seems that Kay is in danger herself. Who is this danger from? Can she still trust Marino? Luckily, Kay has her niece Lucy aside. She helps to track down a major cover-up that also affects Kay's husband company.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5It was very long and it is getting tiring. Kay Scarpetta, Lucy, Marino and Benton have to solve a series of murders that the FBI seems to be covering up. The story was just not as captivating as here earlier books. Time to write one of her new series with other characters.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Another top drawer novel from Patricia Cornwell in her Kay Scarpetta series. Scarpetta is a medical examiner and here she is called to a murder by her ex-partner, Marino, and is led to believe this is the work of a serial killer by her husband, Benton, a behaviouralist with the FBI. All is not as it seems and complexity and intrigue spiral out from here. As always with Cornwell, the inner world of Scarpetta - her relationships, her doubts and fears, her family, her job, her colleagues - takes centre stage and affects the route to identifying the killer and unravelling the mystery.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I didn't like much, I prefer the first book of Scarppeta . She was superior then anyone else, especially Marino, she belittle him all the time.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A rambling and wordy story that I did not finish. The use of the Sandy Hook tragedy was a turn off.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5What Dust needs is an editor and a plot. This 10 hour novel contains 2 hours of backstory and another two of rehash. The characters have become rote--always doing the same, flat, thing. The story line wanders and meanders toward a climax nearly one hour before the end...now what? It was a good friendship while it lasted. Bye bye Kay!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5What a terrible disappointment. I have been a loyal fan of the Kay Scarpetta series. Now she has become a hardened and embittered character. Her cynicism is perhaps appropriate to the character, but she is no longer likable for me. If this is the outcome of a life such as hers, it is truly a pity. I will no longer follow this series......sad, but true!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Another great book from Patricia Cornwell!!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Ponderous. The last two or three Scarpetta books have been a bit of a return to form after the descent into complete fantasy that marred them for a while, but this one has a very thin plot, an increasingly irritable Kay again, Lucy acquiring more pointlessly militaristic kit but less of a character and a manufactured row with Marino that never plays out. Neither the murderer nor any of the victims have any real characterisation at all. Not good.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I thoroughly enjoy the Kay Scarpetta series, but the autopsy section seems a little too technical for the layperson. I also felt that Cornwell builds up a showdown between Kay Scarpetta and Pete Marino that never happens. Kay constantly mentions actions of Marino as if something will transpire. Lucy remains the same troubled person intend on having the biggest and best toys. This reader feels that Kay's husband, Benton Wesley, may be slipping into his own private dungeon. Benton seems to be thinking too much like the criminal and at times, the reader wonders if Benton is the serial killer. The ending is surprising since the killer is not mentioned until the story is almost finished.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5More of the usual--if you like Scarpetta, you will like this one! Basic plot (so I can remember in the future which one this was): a body is found and Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is called in to investigate. She discovers glittery stuff all over the body and there are similarities to an FBI case husband Benton Wesley is covering. But Wesley's boss doesn't want him on the case...dun, dun, dun!! Designer drugs, corruption, organized crime and drone technology. A good read.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/52.5 stars. Kay Scarpetta has been a favorite character of mine for a very long time. Over the last several books, I was finding it harder and harder to enjoy these books. This one was disappointing on so many levels. I did finish it but doubt if I will purchase another Patricia Cornwell book.