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Summary: Too Long and Drawn Out
Review: This is my first Kathy Reichs novel, and my last! It started off really good, but quickly turned into a lot of crap that took forever to get through. She added too much technical jargon, and forgot the KISS philosophy. I had to suffer through it since I paid my money for it, but I know better next time.
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Summary: Another great Tempe Brennan mystery
Review: Tempe is back home in Charlotte. She is planning a much needed vacation with the man of her dreams. At the same time, her daughter Katy, is introducing her to her new boyfriend. Unfortunately, one thing leads to another, and Tempe finds herself thrown into a case involving bones, dead animals, birds, a missing family and a dead infant. As usual, Tempe cannot seperate work and her private life, and the case takes Tempe and the reader from one point to another. Sometimes there are too many characters and too many loose ends, and that is why this book does not get 5 stars. The book is well written and the plot is good, and it was a very fast read, that just kept going. Without knowing the other Tempe Brennan books, it may be a bit of a disappointing read, and it is definitely not Kathy Reich's best, but it is still worth reading and highly recommendable to anybody who like a good mystery!
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Summary: Not Up to Par
Review: Reichs usually writes a really good thriller, but this one falls absolutely flat. One feels like she dashed it off in a great hurry to meet a deadline and never got chance to revise her first draft. The characters are not well delineated and it is difficult for the reader to remember who is who [or to care] and the plot did not engage me at all. Even the romantic angle of the novel fell flat - it felt forced, not spontaneous. Normally I really look forward to Reichs' novels, but this one I could easily have skipped and not have minded a whit. Don't bother unless you like being bored.
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Summary: Almost A Winner
Review: I love Kathy Reichs and her books. I love the main character Tempe Brennan and the situations she gets in. Bare Bones is about bear poaching, drugs, a headless body and a baby's charred remains found in a stove.This book began well and had me hooked right up until the end. The way it ended stunned me - it happened so quickly and was almost an anticlimax. Then Tempe goes off on this long rant, with statistics and figures, about people who poach and/or smuggle animals that are used for medicinal purposes or because they are rare. The rant should have been left out - it was totally out of character for Tempe and I get the distinct feeling this was more of an issue to Reichs. She should have written that part as an afterword.
Other than that, I loved this book and can't wait for the next one. I hope Reichs cuts down on the preaching and ratchets up the action!
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Summary: The Bones of a Bear and People too
Review: Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan, back from Guatemala, is ready for a romantic vacation with Canadian cop boyfriend Andrew Ryan, but like in any good thriller, things just keep getting in the way. A child is found dead. "As I was packaging what remained of the dead baby, the man I would kill was burning pavement north toward Charlotte." With an opening sentence like that, how can you not be sucked in from the get go? Then a couple lines later: "I felt a deep sadness as I tucked the tiny bundle of bones into its container, fastened the lid, and wrote a file number across the plastic. So little to examine. Such a short life." How can you not cry along with Tempe? And we're not even off the first page yet. The child is the grandfather of Gideon Banks, a retired janitor who had worked with Tempe for almost twenty years. Tempe has to tell the man his granddaughter has been burned to death in an over and that his teenage daughter is missing. Heart wrenching. Then a small plane crashes, pilot and co-pilot burned to a crisp. Then, at a barbecue, Tempe's dog unearths a bag of bones. Bear bones it turns out (bear bones - Bare Bones, get it). But a couple more bags are found and some human bones are in one of them. There goes Tempe's vacation, bad for Temp, but good for you, because you get to read all about what happens next, with drug smugglers, rare animal smugglers and a whole cast of characters too numerous to mention. Yes, at times it's hard to keep everybody straight in this five star thriller, sometimes you might find yourself going back and rereading, but it's worth it, because this is one heck of a book, a must read for Tempe fans. Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
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Summary: All Work and No Play, Puts Tempe in the Sights of a Killer
Review: Tempe Brennan is back from Guatemala and can hardly wait till she can start her vacation with Andrew Ryan, but as always she's bogged down in her work. She has to examine the burnt and charred remains of an infant, then tell the grandfather, a friend, his granddaughter is dead and his daughter is missing. Then there's the plane crash, pilot and co-pilot turned into crispy critters. Then her dog unearths some bones, bear bones (see the pun) as it turns out, but as her luck would have it, human bones are mixed up with them as well. Three different cases, somehow connected. No vacation for Tempe, fortunately Ryan's a cop who knows Tempe, so he's used to these kinds of distractions. Then Tempe starts getting threatening phone calls and e-mails from someone who thinks she's asking too many questions. But how can she not ask questions, She's Tempe and that's what she does, even when she's not supposed to, especially when she's not supposed to. And of course we get our usual dose of forensic science, it wouldn't be a Kathy Reichs' novel if we didn't. But nowhere does the wonderful description or the detailed science get in the way of the mood or the pulse racing heart of this five star novel. Reviewed by Vesta Irene
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Summary: A BIT OF A DISAPPOINTMENT
Review: I have found all of Kathy Reich's books, with the exception of this one, very easy to read and totally riveting entertainment. Bare Bones started out awkwardly. I can't put my finger on it, but I found it difficult reading. It got better towards the end. And just too much of a coincidence that the bear bones turned out to be found on a farm where the missing girl's driver's license is found. Also, I had guessed that the gender-typing on the skeleton which ended up belonging to the woman who worked for the Wildlife Service, was incorrect. The woman was described as rather odd. It was an anti-climax when I turned out to be correct. The book did rather a lot of build-up to the discovery, when to me it was obvious at first. Looking forward to a better job in the next book.
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Summary: A Real Page Turner
Review: Yes there were punctuation errors as well as grammar but not to the extent that the book wasn't readable! I love this author and I'm a huge fan so I'd probably like anything she wrote. This story not only kept my interest but I loved the humor when she was dealing with the Columbo like Detective. I guess Kathy Reichs is as close as you can get to Patricia Cornwell. If you love to watch CSI then you'll love this book. I hope Ms. Reichs continues this series for many years to come.
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Summary: Unreadable!
Review: Very disappointing prose, littered with poor grammar and punctuation errors, distracts the reader's attention from the storyline. Unreadable!
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Summary: I am a huge fan of this writer!
Review: I enjoy all the wonderful stories written by talented storyteller, Kathy Reichs. Her stories completely captivate me. I took "Bare Bones," along with me on vacation this year and I spent more time reading than doing anything else, yes, this book is that good! If you are into nonstop action and page-turning suspense then this is one book you don't want to miss! (Highly Recommended Novel!)
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