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Summary: Easy read. Kept my interest.
Review: Great book, couldn't put it down. Move over Dr. Kay Scarpetta and Patricia Cromwell. If you like the Dr. Scarpetta books, you will like Temperance Brennan.
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Summary: Too many coincidences ruined it for me.
Review: For the first 25 pages I was enthralled by the writing and the forensics. Then the coincidences piled up: 1. In Quebec, Tempe investigates the fiery death of a family (later found to be killed by a quasi-religious cult.) 2. In a totally separate storyline, Tempe is asked by a nun acquaintance to find the nun's missing niece ... who JUST HAPPENS to have links to the first murder. 3. Weeks later, Tempe's relaxing on an island off the Carolina coast when she JUST HAPPENS to discover the buried bodies of two murdered women. Guess what? This new crime JUST HAPPENS to be related to those murders way up north in Quebec. 4. Tempe's troubled sister, living in ANOTHER state, JUST HAPPENS to have recently joined the same murderous cult responsible for all these murders! Tempe doesn't have to pursue the investigation -- the clues just come flying to her from points all over North America. I am amazed that so many self-described mystery buffs do not even comment on these faults in their reviews. Did they not notice them? Or are they so dazzled by the forensic details (which are indeed excellent)that they forgot the basics of a believable plot?
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Summary: Another intriguing spellbinder!
Review: Another book by this wonderful author which was extrememly hard to put down! Her books are throughly interesting. Didn't take me long to finish this one! The story had me reading for hours! Great cases, great subjects, great people. Will be looking for the next winner!
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Summary: This far surpasses her first effort.
Review: I didn't like Deja Dead, but thought I'd give Kathy Reichs another chance. I'm glad I did. This is a much tighter book than her first. It kept me on the edge of my seat. It took two books to make me a fan, but I am now.
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Summary: A book that leaves you wanting more!
Review: Having read and enjoyed Kathy Reich's Deja Dead, I was anxious to pick up her latest work. In addition to being a riveting mystery story, this book was a fascinating porthole into the world of forensic anthropolgy. As a direct of reading this book, I came to Amazon.com today to seek a number of books on forensic science, homicide investigation and forensic anthropology. Kathy Reich's book has stimulated me to learn as much as I can about this amazing science.
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Summary: Impressive and uniquely intriguing.
Review: Look out Kay Scarpetta here comes Tempe Brennan!! I picked up Reich's first novel Deja Dead at the suggestion of a librarian. I am a Patricia Cornwell fan but after three chapters of Reichs' first book I knew I wanted to pick up her second. It was impressive and uniquely intriguing as Deja Dead.It was fascinating to read about how our "neighbors to the north" handled their homicides. The characters were well defined and complimented the book's main character Tempe Brennan. Reichs' clinical descriptions and scientific explanations of forensics and forensic anthropology was well done! I can't wait to read her next book to find out what new challenges Tempe has facing her. Perhaps Hollywood needs to consider a movie about Tempe Brennan?
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Summary: It's boring!
Review: I totally agreed with the review of "Summer Bore!" and I really almost couldn't finish the book. I think that she had a lot of knowledge and did a lot of research to write this book, but the plot is really slow. There are too much coincidents and some plots just don't connect. What makes it even worse is that the auther tried to connect what seemed so far-fetched plots. After we learned about some cult culture and main characters, the author had to use one sentence as a whole paragraph to explain how the story fitted into her research. At the end of the book, we just got all the expaination of the whole plots and how every character fits in the whole story. I hated this kind of spoon-fed story. I also don't care much about Dr. Tempe Brenna. Too bad for me. I had spent a lot of hours, after putting my two toddlers to sleep, to read a very disappointed book. No comparison to Patricia Cornwell's books.
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Summary: Fun/Page Turning Read - Far Better than Cornwell
Review: I started reading this book with some trepidation, because I am not a Patricia Cornwell fan. I am delighted I made the effort....this was a great book and I'm really excited about reading the first novel in the series. I found Reichs style of writing to be far more enjoyable than Cornwell and Temperence to be a more believable character than Kay Scarpetta. Also, Harry is a more enjoyable and interesting secondary character than Scarpetta's daughter. The story had twists and surprise connections/revelations at the end. I had a highly entertaining weekend while reading this book! Can't wait for more!
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Summary: Summer bore!
Review: When I purchased this book, I had completely forgotten that I had read "Deja Dead" two years before. It took 3 weeks to plough through this slow moving novel and I was tempted several times to just put it away. Her knowledge of forensics is commendable (she is an expert after all), but her knowledge of how to utilize plot and character needs much improvement. Needless to say, that is an art form of its own.
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Summary: Didn't skip one page of this book!
Review: As a skimmer who can usually finish a book in a few hours, this book was the exception. The plot was well contrived, the characters highly developed and the ending not expected. Superb!
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