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206 Bones
by Kathy Reichs
At 20 pages in, I was already annoyed by the author's habit of taking paragraphs of description, slapping quotation marks around it, and calling it dialogue. And yet, I carried on to the bitter end. Which I saw coming a mile away.
This isn't one of Tempe's greatest hits. The crimes are unremarkable (for the genre, anyway) and the twists are... less than twisty. Plus the Brennan-Ryan romance is back in its tedious "will they (again) or won't they (again)" mode.
My biggest beef is that Reichs is clearly using the novel as a megaphone with which to complain about uncertified experts practicing forensics. And while I agree that I'd much rather have a board certified forensic anthropologist examining my dry & dessicated corpse, I really don't need Reichs to take a sledgehammer and beat that opinion into my skull.
This isn't one of Tempe's greatest hits. The crimes are unremarkable (for the genre, anyway) and the twists are... less than twisty. Plus the Brennan-Ryan romance is back in its tedious "will they (again) or won't they (again)" mode.
My biggest beef is that Reichs is clearly using the novel as a megaphone with which to complain about uncertified experts practicing forensics. And while I agree that I'd much rather have a board certified forensic anthropologist examining my dry & dessicated corpse, I really don't need Reichs to take a sledgehammer and beat that opinion into my skull.