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A review by empressofbookingham
Déjà Dead / Death du Jour by Kathy Reichs
5.0
Déjà Dead is the first novel by Kathy Reichs starring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. It won the 1998 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.
This is a superbly crafted book with a poetic tone to it, with a witty, funny, strong but deeply flawed main character who feels she can be Super woman to our corrupted world (very hard because she seems to be surrounded by chauvinistic men) and supporting characters that add so much flavour, steam to the story line. It's fast paced until to some point (I think is to build tension and it works) but then picks up again.
It has a map btw of Québec and we get a vivid description of the place that you feel you're there. It's quite interesting that it's as if the book was initially written in French and Tempe is translating the world to us in English.
Violence, power, religion, sexualité, loss, pain, love...are some of the themes holding the thrilling plot. Sigh!
I should have started with book one. I think the time I read book 3 I was in a rush and impatient thus didn't enjoy it much. Shall reread it again. Would love to read the whole series and in order. More of Kathy Reichs please.
Patricia Cornwell fans would enjoy this one given that I'm one. There is room for many more forensics authors and each have their own profound merit and magic.
This is a superbly crafted book with a poetic tone to it, with a witty, funny, strong but deeply flawed main character who feels she can be Super woman to our corrupted world (very hard because she seems to be surrounded by chauvinistic men) and supporting characters that add so much flavour, steam to the story line. It's fast paced until to some point (I think is to build tension and it works) but then picks up again.
It has a map btw of Québec and we get a vivid description of the place that you feel you're there. It's quite interesting that it's as if the book was initially written in French and Tempe is translating the world to us in English.
Violence, power, religion, sexualité, loss, pain, love...are some of the themes holding the thrilling plot. Sigh!
I should have started with book one. I think the time I read book 3 I was in a rush and impatient thus didn't enjoy it much. Shall reread it again. Would love to read the whole series and in order. More of Kathy Reichs please.
Patricia Cornwell fans would enjoy this one given that I'm one. There is room for many more forensics authors and each have their own profound merit and magic.