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I'd actually give this a 2.5.
Two of the things that bothered me about it are personal preferences, so I'll get those over with. First of all, the book is told in the first person and for some reason, I've always preferred third person. That's not enough to lower my rating, though. Then, I thought it would be more like the TV show, so it didn't meet up with my expectations. Again, not the book's fault, as it was written before the TV show.
So, on to the rest of the book. I found most of it very unbelievable. Dr. Brennan seems to never work during the work day, she never calls the police for help when any sane person would, she picks up a ton of clues that the police have apparently missed and then they won't even listen to her when she's point out pretty obvious facts. She's afraid of a serial killer, but doesn't worry about the door to her building being left open on a couple of occasions, doesn't move out when he knows where she lives, etc, etc. And, the book takes place in Quebec and they call the FBI for help. Does Canada not have its own FBI type organization?
She is too in love with similes. I have nothing against similes. Some of them were pretty clever. They are often a good way of describing something your reader may not have experienced before. But, there were 3 similes on one page, and I'm willing to bed that if you counted all the words, like would be right up there with the word the. It was beginning to get distracting. I could only wonder if she used to be a Valley Girl.
The pacing was way too slow in a lot of places, and I didn't even really care about what was going to happen until I got very close to the end.
On the positive side, I did like some of the characters, such as Brennan (even if she did bare no similarity to Bones) and Ryan.
Two of the things that bothered me about it are personal preferences, so I'll get those over with. First of all, the book is told in the first person and for some reason, I've always preferred third person. That's not enough to lower my rating, though. Then, I thought it would be more like the TV show, so it didn't meet up with my expectations. Again, not the book's fault, as it was written before the TV show.
So, on to the rest of the book. I found most of it very unbelievable. Dr. Brennan seems to never work during the work day, she never calls the police for help when any sane person would, she picks up a ton of clues that the police have apparently missed and then they won't even listen to her when she's point out pretty obvious facts. She's afraid of a serial killer, but doesn't worry about the door to her building being left open on a couple of occasions, doesn't move out when he knows where she lives, etc, etc. And, the book takes place in Quebec and they call the FBI for help. Does Canada not have its own FBI type organization?
She is too in love with similes. I have nothing against similes. Some of them were pretty clever. They are often a good way of describing something your reader may not have experienced before. But, there were 3 similes on one page, and I'm willing to bed that if you counted all the words, like would be right up there with the word the. It was beginning to get distracting. I could only wonder if she used to be a Valley Girl.
The pacing was way too slow in a lot of places, and I didn't even really care about what was going to happen until I got very close to the end.
On the positive side, I did like some of the characters, such as Brennan (even if she did bare no similarity to Bones) and Ryan.