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paulabrandon's review
2.0
My first book for 2017! How exciting! The book itself - not so much! This one felt as if Reichs was struggling to meet her deadline and her word count. Way too much padding! She pulls a James Patterson and throws in several cases for the price of one. I do not like this! If I did, I'd watch a TV show.
My biggest peeve - description! I swear, did we really need that three-page description on the history of her ex-husband's family? Three pages! ABOUT HER EX-HUSBAND'S FAMILY! Good grief. After that, it's describing every road she drives down to get somewhere, or the history of every building she sees. I HATE, HATE, HATE this! Grrrrr! IT'S NOT IMPORTANT!
Sorry for the yelling. It really grinds my gears. No wonder I read so much category romance; they're shorter and cut all that s*** out!
I did want to keep reading to find out how it all ended, but I was largely unimpressed. The extraneous subplots, including the old-as-the-hills-and-just-as-dusty "someone-wants-to-sabotage-my-career" (which has served Patricia Cornwell well over the years) narrative strand pulled my attention to too many directions. All that pointless description - Aarrgghh! The climax was a bit of a fizzler too.
My biggest peeve - description! I swear, did we really need that three-page description on the history of her ex-husband's family? Three pages! ABOUT HER EX-HUSBAND'S FAMILY! Good grief. After that, it's describing every road she drives down to get somewhere, or the history of every building she sees. I HATE, HATE, HATE this! Grrrrr! IT'S NOT IMPORTANT!
Sorry for the yelling. It really grinds my gears. No wonder I read so much category romance; they're shorter and cut all that s*** out!
I did want to keep reading to find out how it all ended, but I was largely unimpressed. The extraneous subplots, including the old-as-the-hills-and-just-as-dusty "someone-wants-to-sabotage-my-career" (which has served Patricia Cornwell well over the years) narrative strand pulled my attention to too many directions. All that pointless description - Aarrgghh! The climax was a bit of a fizzler too.
ellejaoy's review
4.0
Brilliant new book! Didn't even know she had a new one out. Really adored it. Brilliant plot, only thing I thought was bad was that I wanted to see more Ryan/Brennan interaction but that's okay cause it worked out all okay!
I kinda guessed who it was behind quite soon, I mean it was pretty obvious that Briel hated her! & the mentioning of Joe where too appropriate.
I kinda guessed who it was behind quite soon, I mean it was pretty obvious that Briel hated her! & the mentioning of Joe where too appropriate.
alidottie's review
3.0
This was a little harder to follow than most Temperance Brenner books because it felt like there were too many moving parts--scenes of Tempe trying to escape a trap (obviously in the future) interspersed in between chapters which dealt with murders of elderly women, a grandson found in a quarry, bones of four found in the bottom in the lake, while trying to figure out why someone is trying to undermine Tempe's work. Just a little too much--and not enough interesting story.
mbfeeney's review against another edition
3.0
As with nearly all Temperance Brennan books, it starts with her in some sort of mortal peril, which is fine, but after a while (this is book 12 I believe)it gets a bit repetitive.
What I did enjoy about this book was the annoyance and mystery surrounding Briel and why she wanted to be involved in so many of the cases in Quebec. I guessed that it was her who had altered things to make it look like Tempe was failing at her job. (wouldn't have happened if La Manche was there).
As much as I love the character of Ryan and the sexual chemistry between he and Brennan, I was starting to get a bit bored of Tempe being all "what if" about him and if they should get back together. I understand things are different between them now, but it's obvious that they should be together, so they should just pull on their big girl/boy panties and get back together.
The whole Sparky thing was just annoying and felt a bit disjointed as it never really seemed to go anywhere other than him making threats about getting her evicted because he doesn't like Birdie. It just seemed to cut off, but no doubt, that wll pick up again in the next book.
Usually, I fly through Kathy Reichs' books, but I struggled a bit through this one as it didn't seem to hold my attention throughout. I thought it could have been better, but I will read more of her books as I do enjoy her easy writing style. Even though there is a lot of jargon, she makes it fairly easy for readers to understand with her simplistic yet informative explanations.
Not her best, but I've read worse.
What I did enjoy about this book was the annoyance and mystery surrounding Briel and why she wanted to be involved in so many of the cases in Quebec. I guessed that it was her who had altered things to make it look like Tempe was failing at her job. (wouldn't have happened if La Manche was there).
As much as I love the character of Ryan and the sexual chemistry between he and Brennan, I was starting to get a bit bored of Tempe being all "what if" about him and if they should get back together. I understand things are different between them now, but it's obvious that they should be together, so they should just pull on their big girl/boy panties and get back together.
The whole Sparky thing was just annoying and felt a bit disjointed as it never really seemed to go anywhere other than him making threats about getting her evicted because he doesn't like Birdie. It just seemed to cut off, but no doubt, that wll pick up again in the next book.
Usually, I fly through Kathy Reichs' books, but I struggled a bit through this one as it didn't seem to hold my attention throughout. I thought it could have been better, but I will read more of her books as I do enjoy her easy writing style. Even though there is a lot of jargon, she makes it fairly easy for readers to understand with her simplistic yet informative explanations.
Not her best, but I've read worse.
andrew65's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
3.75
greggbaconroll's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
danne789's review
4.0
This was a fun Brennan book. This was pry one of my favorites in a long time. I thought I knew what was going on. I was partly right, but I didn't guess the whole thing.
duparker's review
4.0
Eh. It might have been better to to check out an earlier story in this series, instead of jumping in at book 12. That said, it was fine. Nothing jumped out to me as inspiring me to read the rest of the series, which is fine. The plot was good and I liked the interplay between the past actions and current case.