Guaranteed to Give you Nightmares
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Tempe is in Guatemala, helping to unearth the bodies of 28 villagers disappeared (killed by the govt.) during the civil war there. Two of her colleagues are attacked, one dies. Tempe has to be careful, as there could still be people in the government that were involved in the massacre.
Then she gets involved with the disappearance of four girls, one of them the daughter of the Canadian ambassador and all of a sudden the authorities that were so eager for her help with the decomposing bodies of the villagers want her out of Dodge.
To add to the plot there is a Latin love interest who just happened to go to school with old flame Ryan who comes to Guatemala because one of the four missing girls is the daughter of the Canadian Ambassador.
This book seemed somehow different than Reichs' previous four. That's not bad, an author should change and grow. Tempe seems to have a little more punch. Also this book starts off on a dark note that lasts throughout, but with Reich's detailed description of the death pit, how could it not be dark.
A word of caution, don't read this five star thriller before dinner, especially the secptic tank part, because it'll definitely throw you off your feed. Don't read it before bed either, because if you do, nightmares are guaranteed. Read it on a rainy day, then watch an episode of the Honeymooners to get it out of your system.
Review submitted by Katie Osborne
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Too technical
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I forced myself to finish this book despite finding most of it being too technical for my liking.
Certainly not the most exciting of her books and the ending is left up in the air.
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Blanked Out
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Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is in Guatemala to dig up the remains in mass graves. Meanwhile, four young women are missing, including the daughter of the Canadian ambassador. And how does stem cell research fit into all this? Well, I must've blanked out during that stage, but it sure was nice to see my city, Melbourne (in Australia), get a mention! (A)
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Bare Bones -Kathy Reichs
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Bare Bones will keep you on the edge of your seat, once I started to read it I couldn't put it down, I had to keep turning the pages to see what happened next and I wasn't disappointed.
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Good, but not Reichs' best
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Kathy Reichs is one of my favourite writers, and Tempe Brennan, one of my favourite characters. As always, Reichs confidently grounds us in the setting, steering us through Guatemala and Montreal as though we are actually there and she is pointing out the sights, sounds, and smells as we go. There is the usual grisly description of the dead, and the accompanying forensic information that goes with that. Reichs excels in describing in plain English the details of potentially complicated and confusing subjects, but I think in this novel, more than her four previous in the series, she relies too heavily on facts and figures to fill the pages, which tends to slow down the action. Although, having said that, cliffhangers at the end of every chapter kept me turning the pages. It would have been nice to catch up with some characters from the previous novels (Tempe somehow has close friends we've never heard of in every book, while she rarely associates with any from the ones that came before), but as the the love interest, Detective Ryan, seems to be getting more annoying each time I see him, maybe that's actually a good thing. Overall, a good book, and an enjoyable read, but not quite in the same league as Deja Dead or Death Du Jour.
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