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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
tedious, shallow plot..... As always, really looking forward to the latest Tempe tome. Really wish I hadn't bothered. Characters didn't seem to care much about what was happening, and neither did I. Ryan turns up and......what happens? Well, nothing. Tempe attacked and hospitalised, does Katy turn up to see her? No. Unless you just want to collect a 'set' of Reichs novels, skip this one. Did I mention that it was also rather depressing/ Not in content, but in tone and style. Avoid.
Enjoyable until the ending I have been fan of Kathy Reiches' books much preferring her writing to the cruder style of Patricia Cornwell. I enjoy the detailed medico-scientific descriptions, and, in this story, I found the information about alternative religions interesting, however I've felt, particularly with recent books that they were tending to become formulaic in the way they ended with her forensic anthropologist heroine, Temperance Brennan, being in fear of her life, attacked and injured. She's supposed to be a forensic... more info
Standard set for genre Within the writing world certain authors become the best known and set the standards within a genre that others try to follow. Within the crime genre Kathy Reichs is perhaps the best known of the modern writers with a successful TV series based upon her books still going strong with its third season airing in the UK currently. Each tale is well written, has had a huge amount of research put within and takes the reader on an adventure into the darkness of the human mind that many are pleased to escape.... more info
A slow return to form by Reichs This book stars Temperance Brennan, like all of Kathy Reich's other books. In this book Brennan is called in to examine some bones that seem to be related to devil worshiping of some sort. Given that this book is set in the Deep South, this leads to an up rising in the moral majority, who see the practice as cause for concern. When bodies start dropping left and right, the police, and Brennan must act quickly before all hell really breaks loose. This book is a return to form for Reichs. There... more info
