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A review by ldv
Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs
3.0
This is an earlier Temperance Brennan story, so I've been reading them out of order. The last one I read made Brennan out to be a MPD, sometimes smart, sometimes dumb. In this story her personality is more consistent throughout the story, as well as more consistent with the character's "billing" -- what you expect from an intelligent person in a murder-mystery. There wasn't the rehashing of the story, either, but because there were so many names, sufficient reminders were given to help job my memory.
If you watch the show Bones: this book is probably the inspiration for the Gormagon storyline, though only the secret cannibal society is similar -- and it's not Brennan's assistant who is guilty! :)
Andrew Ryan is barely a character in this book, which is fine with me. My favourite character is Lucy Crow, the local sheriff. Now there's a strong, intelligent woman in a typically-male position but does not reek of stereotype, which would have been easy to do here.
Sort of [b:Nancy Drew|32979|The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew #1)|Carolyn Keene|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168408290s/32979.jpg|151480]ish in its plotline, but, having read those as a kid, I'm not fully turned off by it. A good book to read on a "dark and stormy night" or afternoon.
If you watch the show Bones: this book is probably the inspiration for the Gormagon storyline, though only the secret cannibal society is similar -- and it's not Brennan's assistant who is guilty! :)
Andrew Ryan is barely a character in this book, which is fine with me. My favourite character is Lucy Crow, the local sheriff. Now there's a strong, intelligent woman in a typically-male position but does not reek of stereotype, which would have been easy to do here.
Sort of [b:Nancy Drew|32979|The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew #1)|Carolyn Keene|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168408290s/32979.jpg|151480]ish in its plotline, but, having read those as a kid, I'm not fully turned off by it. A good book to read on a "dark and stormy night" or afternoon.