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A review by paulabrandon
Bones of the Lost by Kathy Reichs
2.0
Ugh. I finally finished. That was a bit of a slog! This Temperance Brennan books starts off with the discovery of a dead teenage girl, apparently killed in a hit and run. She's holding a card that belonged to a man who died in a fire months earlier. There's also the matter of a war vet who has smuggled mummified dogs (!) into the country. Suddenly, that all gets abandoned in part two, as Tempe treks off to Afghanistan to exhume the remains of two men killed by a soldier. The soldier has been accused of straight out execution as opposed to self-defense.
Of course, this being a Kathy Reichs book, we know that all of these elements are going to tie in together somehow. But the process of getting the information really was a bore! Waaaaay too much of this book is dedicated to Tempe's daily routines, and monotonous descriptions of where she travels to and where she stays. Practically a whole chapter was devoted to Tempe's trip home from Afghanistan and all the flight delays she experiences. Realistic, I imagine, but really effing boring to read about! Very little actually happens in this book! Indeed, it requires a 13 page epilogue to explain to us how everything connects together! Perhaps some of that could have fell into place earlier? As it is, it all still felt very jumbled and all over the place.
Unfortunately, I was bored, bored, bored reading this book and got a lot of naps out of it. Tempe's judgmental comments on just about everyone, the tediously described minutiae of her daily routines, the haphazard plot and the excessive travel descriptions land this clunker towards the bottom of the pile of Brennan books. There's only a couple more to go, so hopefully those are better than this!
Of course, this being a Kathy Reichs book, we know that all of these elements are going to tie in together somehow. But the process of getting the information really was a bore! Waaaaay too much of this book is dedicated to Tempe's daily routines, and monotonous descriptions of where she travels to and where she stays. Practically a whole chapter was devoted to Tempe's trip home from Afghanistan and all the flight delays she experiences. Realistic, I imagine, but really effing boring to read about! Very little actually happens in this book! Indeed, it requires a 13 page epilogue to explain to us how everything connects together! Perhaps some of that could have fell into place earlier? As it is, it all still felt very jumbled and all over the place.
Unfortunately, I was bored, bored, bored reading this book and got a lot of naps out of it. Tempe's judgmental comments on just about everyone, the tediously described minutiae of her daily routines, the haphazard plot and the excessive travel descriptions land this clunker towards the bottom of the pile of Brennan books. There's only a couple more to go, so hopefully those are better than this!