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Devil Bones | 
 enlarge | Author: Kathy Reichs
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £18.99
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 412
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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 Disappointing September 9, 2008
Joyce Holmes (Lincoln.UK)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I was truly looking forward to Devil Bones, but it does not seem to me to be as good as the other Brennan books. I got the feeling that it had been put together more as a precis than a full blown novel. It was still enjoyable, but the story felt rushed as though the author was just writing to fill in a gap. I only hope that the next book will return to the format I have enjoyed before, with the characters returning to a full bodied existence. Please Kathy Reichs go back to giving us that at least.
Sell-by date coming up? September 3, 2008
Michael Watson (Elland, England)
24 out of 28 found this review helpful
As ever, I was looking forward to the latest Tempe Brennan story. Ahead of Cornwell in the forensic anthropologist stakes, in my view but now I'm beginning to wonder. At first, I thought I'd somehow missed out a book. I don't remember Ryan leaving her in the lurch, I don't remember the dog leaving home but maybe I'm wrong.
Anyway, this book doesn't flow like the others. There's plenty of forensic detail, several bodies to be explained and a few more currently taken care of by the killer.
What I don't quite get is how an anthropologist becomes the number one detective. As though the police hardly make a difference for without Brennan, the case would not be solved. Which, of course, means her life is threatened once again. But this time, the coincidences are wearing a bit thin. I really don't believe a chance look at a music website brings up the identity of one of the people involved. Surely not??
I've given the book 4 stars because I've enjoyed the outing with Tempe Brennan but I honestly think it's worth only 3! As for the next one? I may well wait until I can pick it up secondhand after the hype has gone. Sorry if her fans disagree with me.
Enjoyable until the ending November 7, 2008
Bluebell (UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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
Gareth Wilson
1 out of 3 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.
Deftly Plotted Mystery, Lots of Pagan Religion, Jammed with Medical Details, and No Romantic Movement September 4, 2008
Donald Mitchell (Boston)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
If you are a long-time fan of this series, I've written this review for you. You can skip this book if you want to. In terms of series continuity, I'm sure Dr. Reichs will be able to put in two sentences near the start of the next book to handle what happens in this one.
If you haven't read any books in the series, don't start with this one. Start with Deja Dead, a much better book.
If you like mysteries that are hard to solve as a reader, you will like Devil Bones much better than most readers. That's also true if you are fascinated by pagan religions and cannot get enough information about dead bodies.
On the other hand, if you want an entertaining story that's an easy read, you will probably think this is a two-star book. The book also features an easy-to-hate politician who makes the story less appealing. If you like to see Dr. Tempe Brennan's love life get somewhere, this book is pretty close to a zero.
Let's face it. We all have bad days. Tempe seems to be having one throughout this book. That also makes the book more of a downer than it had to be.
Tempe is called out when an apparent root cellar turns out to contain a human skull, associated with what looks like some sort of pagan religious rite. Tracking down the rest of that body becomes the focus of much of the story in Devil Bones. Soon thereafter, a body is dumped that displays satanic signs. Are the two events connected? How?
The investigation has many unexpected twists and turns, most of which wouldn't have happened if Tempe had been a little sharper in assessing one of the clues. If you are quicker than Tempe, you'll unravel the mystery faster than she did. But you'll probably miss the real criminal until all is revealed unless you have ESP.
I learned way too much about pagan religions and medical details from this book, but I liked the mystery being difficult to solve. So I rounded up from two stars to three.
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