2025 Reading Challenge discussion

This thread is to discuss From Potter's Field, the sixth book in the Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell.

Pages: 383 pages

Length: 1 month (April)

Participants: Lorraine, Dominique, Beth, Susan, Lisa Marie

Everyone reads at their own pace during a Buddy Read. Because participants can be at different parts of the book at different times, it is extremely important to mark spoilers so that the book is not ruined for someone who is not as far along as others!!!

Mark spoilers by placing {spoiler} before the text and {/spoiler} after the text but use the < and > instead of the { and }.

Here are some questions to help get the conversation started! Feel free to look up discussion questions specific to this book or come up with your own. Just make sure any questions that contain spoilers are under spoiler tags.
Discussion questions are not required but may be a fun way to talk about the book and get to know each other!

Prior to starting:
What prompted you to join this buddy read?
Have you read this author before? What do you think of their other books?

Mid-read:
What character or ideas do you relate to the most and why?
Do you have any favorite quotes or scenes?

After reading:
What was enjoyable or not-so-enjoyable about this book?
Did this book change your perception about anything, either within the book (character development) or in real life?

Unfortunately I will not be continuing the series. Books 7 to 11 and a few after 14 are not available in my library and my Libby and I don't want to buy all of them.

Happy reading!

Dominique wrote: "Unfortunately I will not be continuing the series. Books 7 to 11 and a few after 14 are not available in my library and my Libby and I don't want to buy all of them.

Happy reading!"

Thanks Dominique!

I’ll be starting From Potter’s Field next week (view spoiler)[ and will be reading it in English, hoping it makes Kay feel more sympathetic. We’ll see. (hide spoiler)]

Thanks for reading with us this far, Dominique!

I just finished tonight. Definitely right up there with the rest of the series, and especially toward the end of it was most exciting! There wasn't too much twistiness to the plot, but I didn't mind that much. What I didn't like was the very ending. It felt like there should have been more epilogue (view spoiler)[about Jayne... Kay and company at potter's field when Jayne was exhumed, or something. It just felt like the last 3 paragraphs were missing their own section and final thoughts. (hide spoiler)]

The more I read of this series, the more I enjoy it!

I'm starting this one today.

Also starting today.

I've started the book but could not get interested in it. I will not continue with this series. Thank you for reading the first 5 books with me.

Thanks for sticking through this far, Lorraine! Look forward to reading lots of other books with you!

Finished reading this book today and it disturbed me at how abruptly it ended. This book only got 2 and a half stars from me (if that were a thing on GR). I'm hoping these books start getting better or I may quit them too.