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Summary: Could not put it down!
Review: A friend passed Deja Dead along to me a few months back, and I have been anxiously awaiting this 2nd book ever since. I am happy to say I wasn't disappointed. I started it on my lunch hour and finished it in the wee hours of the morning. Kathy Reichs is one of the best new authors that I have read in a long time and I hope that she has many more Dr. Brennan books yet to come.
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Summary: This is a dull and rambling story.
Review: "Death du Jour" is no better than "Deja Dead". Both books suffer from overly complicated and hackneyed plots and they are too grisly. "Death du Jour" falls back on the cliche of psychotic cult figures who wreak havoc on the gullible people who are sucked into their circle. Do you know how many books have been written lately about cults? Is it because we are closing in on the millennium? Tempe is an entertaining heroine, but the plot is dull and uninvolving. The book could have been much shorter and much tighter and the author should have made the characters more engrossing. The ending was so dull that I skimmed it, something which I rarely do.
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Summary: Excellent. An un-put-downable read
Review: I had seen Reich's first book but had not read it. However when I came across this one I decided to try it. What a pleasure!! Everything came to a halt while I started and finished "Death du jour" in one day. Tempe is an appealing and refreshing heroine and the different strands of the story - a house fire which kills a group of people, the mystery of the possible saint's remains, the odd behaviour of the commune dwellers, the monkey island....... Altogether an excellent read! I dashed out to get "Deja dead" and am now absorbed in that one. May Reichs write long and hard.
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Summary: This author is hitting her stride!
Review: I thought Reichs had potential with Deja Dead, and sure enough her second novel is a big improvement. If you were disappointed with P. Cornwell's last book, this is a great alternative. Plus there's a better love interest for the main character. This author will be around for a while!
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Summary: Better than Patricia Cornwall!
Review: I won an advanced reading copy of this book and absolutely loved it! Kathy Reichs has been compared to Patricia Cornwall, but I think Reichs is better. There were several mysteries within the one book and all were totally unpredictable. The main character's job (which is apparently the same as Reich's) sounds absolutely fascinating. Totally recommend this book! I've gone back and found her first one too and can't wait to read it.
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Summary: This Novel's Better than her First - Recommended Reading
Review: I bought the author's 1st book, Deja Dead, because I was glad to have found another female medical examiner protagonist similar to Cornwell's Dr. Scarpetta. Still, Deja Dead (Reichs' 1st novel) wasn't as good as when Cornwell is at her, now, occasional best. Death Du Jour, being another Dr. Brennan novel, was a very welcome sight. Then after reading Death Du Jour you see there is a definite improvement over Deja Dead. Reich's story telling skills have improved considerably; now the author really communicates with, and grabs, the reader - she keeps the book moving. I read so many books and not many lately have kept my attention as this one has. If you were iffy with Deja Dead give it another chance with this book.My only gripe is her wacky sister. Not only was there absolutely no need for her but she took something away from the story and the main character. They are way too different and not believable at all. But not for the sister's appearance I would have rated it 5 stars. I'll anxiously await and will buy Reichs next book (new character or not) when it comes out. I hope the author doesn't feel the need to constantly inject family members into her story as Cornwell has done; ruining many storylines by focusing on the neice (a consensus among all my reader friends). We all want to read about the character and her unique professional encounters not her relatives. Congratulations to Ms. Reich on an excellent and intelligent read.
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Summary: Even better than Deja Dead!
Review: Death Du Jour has all the elements that made the first story so interesting and is less bogged down in some of the details of Montreal which made Deja Dead a little hard to read. This story flows. Ryan is back and hotter than ever and even Claudel shows up briefly to make me smile.
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Summary: An enthralling tale
Review: Kathy Reichs had me in from the start with Deja Dead, now I'm hooked because of Death Du Jour. Being a lucky bookseller in Brisbane Australia I managed to snare this new tale and recommend it to all who enjoyed Deja Dead, because Ms Reichs just gets better.
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Summary: If you like Cornwell , you will like this book
Review: In a church graveyard, Montreal forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan diligently digs up the remains of a nun who died in 1888. The church plans to bestow sainthood on Sister Elisabeth Nicolet. However, the marked site fails to contain the sister''s bones as for some mysterious reason they were moved to another locale. When she finds the remains, Tempe begins to feel that the good nun succumbed to foul play. At the same time, modern deaths due to arson and a teaching assistant disappearance have Tempe overworked. Still, the Tarheel native plows ahead to solve the century old mystery of Sister Elisabeth while helping with the current case load even as it draws her back to Beaufort, North Carolina. DEATH DU JOUR, the second Tempe tale, is as terrific as the award winning debut novel (see DEJA DEAD). Tempe remains a serene, warm (in spite of her always being cold) character and the support cast adds Canadian and Carolinian depths to the crisp story line. The subplots cleverly merge together, but it is Kathy Reich's' ability to describe in depth forensic tools and results (autopsies, etc.) without goring the reader with plot drifting that makes this work a winner. Instead, these graphic passages augment the entertaining tale with a ring of authenticity. Sub-genre fans will demand more Tempe tales. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: If you liked Deja Dead, you will like this book even more.
Review: An excellent read. I really liked Deja Dead, but got hung up with all the French. The French is there this time as well, but not to the degree as in DD. The plot moves strongly and Ms Reichs develops several interesting subplots as well. If you liked DD, I think you will like this book even more.
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