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Summary: Have a trendy theme and make a million
Review: I was so looking forward to reading this book on my vacation as I had enjoyed Deja Dead a few years back. After reaching the halfway mark I realized that this writer has very little story telling skills and a whole lot of a trendy topic, forensics. Long detailed descriptions of old bones and blood spatter patterns are given in a dry lecture style. I fear Ms. Reichs will lose her fans very quickly if she does not improve on the one main thing all writers of suspense fiction require, the ability to sustain suspense without piling on the details. I went back to Patrcia Cornwell and side by side there is no comparison.
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Summary: What Happened?????
Review: I don't have any technical expertise in forensic medicine, but I do know about plot, and this was BAD!!!!! I really liked her previous novels, lots of information, and a pretty good story, too. I knew from the first that the cop was undercover, and that the nephew was going to be way too involved, and the newsguy was just too much. And how about that "temp" in her office, please! Trite shouldn't sell. Glad I didn't buy it, would have been a huge waste of money. I'll read the next one, but if it's not much better, she's off my list of favorites.
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Summary: Reads like a textbook
Review: While I really enjoyed the first two Tempe Brennen Novels this was certainly a disappointment. I bought it in hardcover and I wish I had held out for paperback. This story has great potential but is so bogged down with medical jargon it's hard to concentrate on the story. I felt like I was back in science class.I think all the french and english mixed together is getting old to. It's hard to tell because I was so distracted trying to learn my degree in anthropology the story became secondary. I think based on her other 2 books she has great potential but Kathy Reichs needs to remember we're just everyday folk not scientists or anthropologists.I think the best advice she could get would be KEEP IT SIMPLE.
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Summary: A Great Decision!
Review: Having read the first two books in this series, I couldn't wait for the third. I was not disappointed! I simply do not understand those who have said the book plodded. I started reading and couldn't put it down. In fact, I have rarely gone through a book of this size so quickly. It appears to me that the author is getting more comfortable with fiction writing, as I find it flowed well and had the occasional injection of light humor. If I had to find any fault, it was the (perhaps) excessive use of four-letter words... they bothered me more than the graphic details of the victims conditions. (But, then, maybe I am being too old-fashioned.)As an additional note: a neighbor of mine is a mystery reviewer for a local paper, and he felt this was her best yet. Don't miss it!
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Summary: Deadly Dull!!!!!!!
Review: Liked the first one am so sorry I spent money on this book. Never Never AGAIN. Who wrote it?Plot is slim to none,writing is boring unless you want to know in great detail ( for no apparent reason) all the buzz words of Canada and US forensic's, nothing ties together, half the time she skipped between the two countries till I never did figure out why or where she was. Never wrote a bad review before, but couldn't resist on this one.
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Summary: Awful!
Review: Not much of a plot and next to no character development; no suspense, no real mystery -- this effort by Ms. Reichs is a true disappointment. I enjoyed her first two books -- expected an even better book this time. But, instead, found that Ms. Reichs appeared to be writing merely to fill up pages, rather than to develop a story. She may be good at her day job, but she has to work much harder at being a good writer.
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Summary: Bikers At War
Review: Deadly Decisions is the third in Kathy Reich's' tales about forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan. Brennan spends part of her year in North Carolina as a professor and researcher. The rest of the year is spent assisting in Canada helping in Montreal's Laboratory of Legal Medicine where she investigates the identity and cause of death in old and damaged corpses. While sounding gruesome, Reich's is an excellent storyteller. Herself a forensic scientist, she helps the reader to get involved in her cases. She makes them fascinating studies of science. At the same time, her character Temp Brennan gets herself a bit more involved in this cases than simply performing laboratory science. In Deadly Decisions, Montreal's bikers are at war. The different biker groups are killing one another1s members and some innocent bystanders. Temp Brennan gets involved when a nine year old child is killed when passing by at the time of one of these biker killings. The next thing she knows, she's studying up on the world of bikers. Then she gets personally drawn in as the bikers decide her ability to identify the dead can hurt them. A gripping story where I learned a lot more about death that I might of wanted to -- as well as about the world of bikers. Yet, Deadly Decisions as with Reich's' other tales, it is a very engaging read!
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Summary: A FORENSIC TEXTBOOK
Review: An I the only one who found that this book read more like a forensic textbook that a novel? I have read the two previous books and enjoyed them but this latest is too plodding - and do we really need three pages on the meaning of blood spatters? I pre-ordered this book, couldn't wait for it to be published, and then was very disappointed with it. Sorry.
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Summary: Forensic detail heightens interest
Review: Though not as polished a writer as Patricia Cornell, forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs includes even more forensic detail in her Temperance Brennan series and her forensic anthropologist protagonist is not nearly so angst ridden as Cornell's famous medical examiner. In Reichs' third book a child bystander is killed in Montreal during a continuing feud between outlaw bikers and in the course of her investigation, Brennan (forensic anthropologist in both North Carolina and Montreal) unearths bones, which may belong to a missing girl in North Carolina. With her almost-lover and police colleague Andrew Ryan disgraced and unavailable, and her visiting nephew increasingly fascinated with biker culture, Reichs plunges alone into a milieu which prides itself on brutality and misogyny. As the science produces more intriguing questions than answers and Reichs puts herself in increasing danger, the tension heightens, culminating in a bullet-riddled climax and a particularly nasty solution to the mystery of the bones.
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Summary: Ho-Hum
Review: I loved Kathy Reichs first two books. I wanted to read this one so much, I bought it in hardcover! However, I found this book quite unsatisfying. Kathy is falling into the trap of creating a heroine that has 99 lives. Anyone who has been through the cumulative experiences that Tempe has suffered over the past 3 books would be in a psycho ward. This insults the reader's intelligence. Plus, the way in which her relatives and lovers become inextricably involved in the plot at the risk of death is also ridiculous. I hated the Andrew Ryan plot in this book. It is very disappointing that Reichs made him such a major character in Deja Dead but then to hardly use him at all in this third book! I confess one of the reasons I bought this book now was that I wanted to find out how his and Tempe's romance progressed. I was let down. As you will see from other reviews on this page, there is no doubt that Kathy Reichs still pleases her legions of fans and certainly if you are looking for scientific and medical blood and gore, Reichs does not disappoint. However, I am worried that as time goes on, Kathy's books will fall into Patricia Cornwellidiom. One of the reasons I think Kathy is so popular is because Kay Scarpetta books are now so far-fetched. PLEASE, Please, Kathy, keep your eye on the ball!
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