Devil Bones

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Author: Kathy Reichs
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Export
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

11 reviews
Sales Rank: 38179

Media: Paperback
Pages: 352

ISBN: 1416584668
EAN: 9781416584667
ASIN: 1416584668

Publication Date: March 2009 (In 52 Days)
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She's getting boring October 13, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful

I was once an avid fan of K.R However her books are getting more technical and borders on the boring, she includes every minute details of process, and while this might be required by a court of law, it isn't all required by the reader. and her on/off love affair with the infamous Det Ryan, well that's about as predictable as M & S TV add, in other words, you read it in the past that many times, why oh why does she have to go on so much, and the amount of double and triple blank seperation pages are increasing with each book.

1 out of 5 stars

Not as good as it used to be.... September 23, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful

I've read and enjoyed all of Kathy Reichs' other novels, and I have to say that I was shocked by how poor an effort "Devil Bones" was. The characterization was spare at best, the plot was unimaginative and could have been lifted straight from any of her other books (it probably was, come to think of it). Tedious little forensic science lectures do little to lift this unimaginative book. I shan't be buying one of these again in a hurry ....

2 out of 5 stars

Please drop the monotonous tirade of scientific terms. September 20, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

This book 'would' of been good if only Reichs had stopped putting in mind numbing explanations about different dietys, and in-depth explanations about this and that. If I wanted to read a book on pathology, I would buy a science book.

Come... come now Dr Reichs, entertain us with gore and a bit of romance, NOT something I expect to be reading sat in a science class. Im not a stupid person, but even 'I' had to look up some words in her books.

I don't know what it is, but it seems like Reichs has to prove she's better than the likes of Cornwell, with her flashy inserts. Well... NEWS FLASH Dr Reichs, your losing the plot on these books big time.

4 out of 5 stars

Disappointing September 9, 2008
12 out of 12 found this review helpful

I was truly looking forward to Devil Bones, but it does not seem to me to be as good as the other Brennan books. I got the feeling that it had been put together more as a precis than a full blown novel. It was still enjoyable, but the story felt rushed as though the author was just writing to fill in a gap. I only hope that the next book will return to the format I have enjoyed before, with the characters returning to a full bodied existence. Please Kathy Reichs go back to giving us that at least.

3 out of 5 stars

Deftly Plotted Mystery, Lots of Pagan Religion, Jammed with Medical Details, and No Romantic Movement September 4, 2008
14 out of 16 found this review helpful

If you are a long-time fan of this series, I've written this review for you. You can skip this book if you want to. In terms of series continuity, I'm sure Dr. Reichs will be able to put in two sentences near the start of the next book to handle what happens in this one.

If you haven't read any books in the series, don't start with this one. Start with Deja Dead, a much better book.

If you like mysteries that are hard to solve as a reader, you will like Devil Bones much better than most readers. That's also true if you are fascinated by pagan religions and cannot get enough information about dead bodies.

On the other hand, if you want an entertaining story that's an easy read, you will probably think this is a two-star book. The book also features an easy-to-hate politician who makes the story less appealing. If you like to see Dr. Tempe Brennan's love life get somewhere, this book is pretty close to a zero.

Let's face it. We all have bad days. Tempe seems to be having one throughout this book. That also makes the book more of a downer than it had to be.

Tempe is called out when an apparent root cellar turns out to contain a human skull, associated with what looks like some sort of pagan religious rite. Tracking down the rest of that body becomes the focus of much of the story in Devil Bones. Soon thereafter, a body is dumped that displays satanic signs. Are the two events connected? How?

The investigation has many unexpected twists and turns, most of which wouldn't have happened if Tempe had been a little sharper in assessing one of the clues. If you are quicker than Tempe, you'll unravel the mystery faster than she did. But you'll probably miss the real criminal until all is revealed unless you have ESP.

I learned way too much about pagan religions and medical details from this book, but I liked the mystery being difficult to solve. So I rounded up from two stars to three.

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