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How terribly disappointing.

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Devil Bones As an avid reader of all Kathy Reichs books I was greatly disappointed by this book. It only very loosely follows the style of her other books and gets to chapter 9 before anything starts to happen, and even then it's a real slog. There's a tremendous amount of (unnecessary ?) technical data tossed into the early chapters of the book which I found to be distracting and unnecessary. This book reeks of something chucked together by the author because a publishers deadline was imminent. I also detest books that have blank pages. In this book pages 143 and 152 are blank and not even numbered. Very distracting and totally unnecessary. All in all this book should never have been published - it needed a great deal more editing and tidying up in order to make it into one of Kathy Reichs usual good stories.

tedious, shallow plot.....

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As always, really looking forward to the latest Tempe tome. Really wish I hadn't bothered. Characters didn't seem to care much about what was happening, and neither did I. Ryan turns up and......what happens? Well, nothing. Tempe attacked and hospitalised, does Katy turn up to see her? No. Unless you just want to collect a 'set' of Reichs novels, skip this one. Did I mention that it was also rather depressing/ Not in content, but in tone and style. Avoid.

Enjoyable until the ending

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I have been fan of Kathy Reiches' books much preferring her writing to the cruder style of Patricia Cornwell. I enjoy the detailed medico-scientific descriptions, and, in this story, I found the information about alternative religions interesting, however I've felt, particularly with recent books that they were tending to become formulaic in the way they ended with her forensic anthropologist heroine, Temperance Brennan, being in fear of her life, attacked and injured. She's supposed to be a forensic scientist not a law-enforcement officer and by repeating the same scenario in each book it becomes unbelievable and annoying. I thought the basic story was good and will continue to buy her books in the hope that Tempe will manage to get through a case without ending up in hospital! I'd welcome fewer acronyms familiar to USA readers, but not for the rest of us.

Standard set for genre

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Within the writing world certain authors become the best known and set the standards within a genre that others try to follow. Within the crime genre Kathy Reichs is perhaps the best known of the modern writers with a successful TV series based upon her books still going strong with its third season airing in the UK currently. Each tale is well written, has had a huge amount of research put within and takes the reader on an adventure into the darkness of the human mind that many are pleased to escape. Yet this is whats attracted many fans to Kathy and with the smoky on/off, will they, won't they relationships between the principle characters and the reader is treated to a story that will keep them glued to the last page.

A slow return to form by Reichs

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This book stars Temperance Brennan, like all of Kathy Reich's other books. In this book Brennan is called in to examine some bones that seem to be related to devil worshiping of some sort. Given that this book is set in the Deep South, this leads to an up rising in the moral majority, who see the practice as cause for concern. When bodies start dropping left and right, the police, and Brennan must act quickly before all hell really breaks loose. This book is a return to form for Reichs. There are fewer "spectacular Coincidences" that allow Brennan to tie 14 murders up in a bow, and there's less of a tendency by Reichs, the author, to remind us of the plot so far every 20 pages, which she's done in the past. So if you can get over the "high science content" of having bones explained to you, you might enjoy this book, though having said this, the science content isn't as high as it was in other books either."