smiley7245 's review for:

A Conspiracy of Bones by Kathy Reichs

2.75

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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Again with the children victims. I have a LOT of issues with this book. First, I being the kids as victims. Again. Second, and this came first in the reading, apparently there was a novella that came before this book in the reading order but neither hoopla nor libby had it so when this book started I was shocked. Jaw open. Catching flies. Could not cope. And we just moved on from that and while it was mentioned, we didn't return to it. It wasn't until the authors note that I found out about that plot point having been addressed in the aforementioned novella (that I immediately searched for and couldn't find in hoopla or libby). Mama, aka Daisy, is quickly becoming my favorite character and I realize this is a terrible decision on my part since she is older. But, right now she gets the best lines.

Tempe is again running off without telling people. Like the last time we had a new character at the lab, I know that this one was no good and that they wouldn't be around very long. However, I did not expect them to have been complicit in their own downfall because of hubris; she texted the autopsy photos to Tempe thinking she was texting a reporter! When that came out, she was done for. As for the case, for a while I was convinced that the conspiracy was going to be that they were actually rescuing or trying to rescue kidnapped kids. I wish that was the case. This conspiracy theorist was so much worse than originally thought. I'm glad that Skinny was able to finally get enough evidence, with the help of the computer tech character, to stop his enterprise. That was horrible. And we have Mama and her computer skills to thank for figuring out the key clue.

I am so far along in this series that I want to finish it, but I really am over the her continual choice of children as victims.