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dillybar20's review
dark
slow-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
0.5
Do you ever miss sitting down at Thanksgiving and listening to your family talk about how fat, ugly, or uncivilized everyone is? Good news this is the book for that.
I actually gave up counting how many times Kathy Reichs bitched about other people's bodies; there were too many instances. Temperance Brennan is Kathy Reich's self-insert character by the way, these are her thoughts.
I have complained about this in a previous review of another K.R. book but she uses the term schizoid to describe a 17 year old girl who still has dolls. This word isn't a slur but it still should only be used in respectful conversations about schizophrenic people not to describe a normal teenager who *GASP* owns dolls. (61% of the way through the Audiobook)
There's a scene where the detectives are interviewing a grieving mother and the description of her was so horrendous it felt like a hate crime. I unfortunately didn't write down what percentage it was through the audiobook. Not that it would have helped, Simon and Schuster Audio put 45 minutes worth of voice clips at the end that were supposed to be edited out.
The audiobook reader also used the same voices for almost all the characters so it became impossible to distinguish who was saying what and I spent most of the book confused.
Tw: rape, genocide, murder, alcohol addiction, eating disorder content, vomiting.
I actually gave up counting how many times Kathy Reichs bitched about other people's bodies; there were too many instances. Temperance Brennan is Kathy Reich's self-insert character by the way, these are her thoughts.
I have complained about this in a previous review of another K.R. book but she uses the term schizoid to describe a 17 year old girl who still has dolls. This word isn't a slur but it still should only be used in respectful conversations about schizophrenic people not to describe a normal teenager who *GASP* owns dolls. (61% of the way through the Audiobook)
There's a scene where the detectives are interviewing a grieving mother and the description of her was so horrendous it felt like a hate crime. I unfortunately didn't write down what percentage it was through the audiobook. Not that it would have helped, Simon and Schuster Audio put 45 minutes worth of voice clips at the end that were supposed to be edited out.
The audiobook reader also used the same voices for almost all the characters so it became impossible to distinguish who was saying what and I spent most of the book confused.
Tw: rape, genocide, murder, alcohol addiction, eating disorder content, vomiting.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder and Fatphobia
Moderate: Murder, Vomit, and Genocide
Minor: Rape and Alcoholism
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