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| Devil Bones | 
 enlarge | Author: Kathy Reichs
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 269
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0434014656
EAN: 9780434014651
ASIN: 0434014656
Publication Date: August 28, 2008
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 Enjoyable until the ending November 7, 2008
I have been fan of Kathy Reiches' books much preferring her writing to the cruder style of Patricia Cornwell. I enjoy the detailed medico-scientific descriptions, and, in this story, I found the information about alternative religions interesting, however I've felt, particularly with recent books that they were tending to become formulaic in the way they ended with her forensic anthropologist heroine, Temperance Brennan, being in fear of her life, attacked and injured. She's supposed to be a forensic scientist not a law-enforcement officer and by repeating the same scenario in each book it becomes unbelievable and annoying. I thought the basic story was good and will continue to buy her books in the hope that Tempe will manage to get through a case without ending up in hospital! I'd welcome fewer acronyms familiar to USA readers, but not for the rest of us.
Standard set for genre October 17, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Within the writing world certain authors become the best known and set the standards within a genre that others try to follow. Within the crime genre Kathy Reichs is perhaps the best known of the modern writers with a successful TV series based upon her books still going strong with its third season airing in the UK currently.
Each tale is well written, has had a huge amount of research put within and takes the reader on an adventure into the darkness of the human mind that many are pleased to escape. Yet this is whats attracted many fans to Kathy and with the smoky on/off, will they, won't they relationships between the principle characters and the reader is treated to a story that will keep them glued to the last page.
A slow return to form by Reichs October 16, 2008
This book stars Temperance Brennan, like all of Kathy Reich's other books.
In this book Brennan is called in to examine some bones that seem to be related to devil worshiping of some sort. Given that this book is set in the Deep South, this leads to an up rising in the moral majority, who see the practice as cause for concern.
When bodies start dropping left and right, the police, and Brennan must act quickly before all hell really breaks loose.
This book is a return to form for Reichs. There are fewer "spectacular Coincidences" that allow Brennan to tie 14 murders up in a bow, and there's less of a tendency by Reichs, the author, to remind us of the plot so far every 20 pages, which she's done in the past.
So if you can get over the "high science content" of having bones explained to you, you might enjoy this book, though having said this, the science content isn't as high as it was in other books either."
 She's getting boring October 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was once an avid fan of K.R However her books are getting more technical and borders on the boring, she includes every minute details of process, and while this might be required by a court of law, it isn't all required by the reader. and her on/off love affair with the infamous Det Ryan, well that's about as predictable as M & S TV add, in other words, you read it in the past that many times, why oh why does she have to go on so much, and the amount of double and triple blank seperation pages are increasing with each book.
 Not as good as it used to be.... September 23, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've read and enjoyed all of Kathy Reichs' other novels, and I have to say that I was shocked by how poor an effort "Devil Bones" was. The characterization was spare at best, the plot was unimaginative and could have been lifted straight from any of her other books (it probably was, come to think of it). Tedious little forensic science lectures do little to lift this unimaginative book. I shan't be buying one of these again in a hurry ....
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