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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I always enjoy reading a Dr.Temperance Brennan novel, though this one wasn't the best. The story was okay but I solved the key plot twist about five chapters in. Like with the other books, I am not keen on the chapter cliffhangers because they seem to be acheap ploy to make me think I am reading a page-turner.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It’s not me! It’s her!
That’s it! I’m outta here! I’m through. I’m breaking up with Kathy Reichs and Temperance Brennan. No more pain for me!
DEVIL BONES started out well, in fact, REALLY well and I was definitely excited. A clever soft-pedalled introduction around Brennan in the context of her alter ego as a forensic anthropology instructor in the local university gave Reichs a chance to offer some interesting information on the various specialties in anthropology. The discovery of some human remains in a basement under renovation set up a story with tremendous promise. Lots of seriously interesting side-bar essays on syncretic religions – two or more cultural and spiritual ideologies combined into a single religion, such as Santería or Voodoo. Then Reichs introduced her right-wing nasty, the guy who you just knew was ultimately going to wind up on the suspect list:
“Preacher turned county commissioner, [he] was a case study of extremist ideology, pseudo-Christianity, pseudo-patriotism, and thinly veiled white-male supremacy. His was a constituency that wanted the economy unregulated, the welfare state small, the military strong, and the citizenry white, native born, and strictly New Testament.”
Given my less than ambivalent feelings about right-wing fundamental Christian evangelicalism and the state of current US politics, I was well and truly hooked. But THEN came the introduction of an untold number of bit players (most of whom ended up as dead-end and irrelevant); possible investigations pointed in about a thousand different directions; and the continuing woes of Brennan’s truly messed-up life as a less than totally reformed alcoholic, a very confused mother, and a psychologically encumbered divorcée who isn’t really sure who she wants to bed down with. Top it all off by adding another man and some seriously unprofessional sexual exploits with an attorney who just happens to be defending someone under investigation.
Temperance Brennan’s life is a train wreck that’s still happening. The locomotive has stopped but the cars are still de-railing and piling up behind it! I’m going to jump off before the car I’m riding in joins the wreckage.
Paul Weiss
That’s it! I’m outta here! I’m through. I’m breaking up with Kathy Reichs and Temperance Brennan. No more pain for me!
DEVIL BONES started out well, in fact, REALLY well and I was definitely excited. A clever soft-pedalled introduction around Brennan in the context of her alter ego as a forensic anthropology instructor in the local university gave Reichs a chance to offer some interesting information on the various specialties in anthropology. The discovery of some human remains in a basement under renovation set up a story with tremendous promise. Lots of seriously interesting side-bar essays on syncretic religions – two or more cultural and spiritual ideologies combined into a single religion, such as Santería or Voodoo. Then Reichs introduced her right-wing nasty, the guy who you just knew was ultimately going to wind up on the suspect list:
“Preacher turned county commissioner, [he] was a case study of extremist ideology, pseudo-Christianity, pseudo-patriotism, and thinly veiled white-male supremacy. His was a constituency that wanted the economy unregulated, the welfare state small, the military strong, and the citizenry white, native born, and strictly New Testament.”
Given my less than ambivalent feelings about right-wing fundamental Christian evangelicalism and the state of current US politics, I was well and truly hooked. But THEN came the introduction of an untold number of bit players (most of whom ended up as dead-end and irrelevant); possible investigations pointed in about a thousand different directions; and the continuing woes of Brennan’s truly messed-up life as a less than totally reformed alcoholic, a very confused mother, and a psychologically encumbered divorcée who isn’t really sure who she wants to bed down with. Top it all off by adding another man and some seriously unprofessional sexual exploits with an attorney who just happens to be defending someone under investigation.
Temperance Brennan’s life is a train wreck that’s still happening. The locomotive has stopped but the cars are still de-railing and piling up behind it! I’m going to jump off before the car I’m riding in joins the wreckage.
Paul Weiss
I'm a fan of forensic fiction and I'm a fan of Bones. I've been reading Reich's novels since Deja Dead and I really enjoy them.
Temperance Brennan is in Charlotte this round and working on several cases that appear to be related to each other via occult rituals/satanism. Cauldrons and various voodoo type objects are found at one scene while a headless body of a young man are found at another.
Brennan and Slidell battle a local "Christian" commissioner who just makes more trouble by riling up the community's fear. Brennan also, unfortunately, battles herself in this novel.
I like this Brennan better than I like TV's Brennan (although she's growing on me) and since Devil Bones leaves things up in the air, I really hope things work out. And I can't wait for the next Brennan book.
Temperance Brennan is in Charlotte this round and working on several cases that appear to be related to each other via occult rituals/satanism. Cauldrons and various voodoo type objects are found at one scene while a headless body of a young man are found at another.
Brennan and Slidell battle a local "Christian" commissioner who just makes more trouble by riling up the community's fear. Brennan also, unfortunately, battles herself in this novel.
I like this Brennan better than I like TV's Brennan (although she's growing on me) and since Devil Bones leaves things up in the air, I really hope things work out. And I can't wait for the next Brennan book.