Devil Bones (Temperance Brennan, #11)

by Kathy Reichs
Devil Bones (Temperance Brennan, #11)
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August 26th 2008 by Scribner

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Hardcover, 310 pages

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The United States

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0743294386    (isbn13: 9780743294386)

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Following her most successful book to date, Kathy Reichs -- international number one bestselling author, forensic anthropologist, and producer of the ...more




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Brooke
06/04/08
Brooke rated it: 3 of 5 stars

bookshelves: 2008, mystery
Read in August, 2008
The books in Kathy Reichs' Bones series are either really, really good or merely decent, and this newest installment fell into the latter category. I think my level of enjoyment depends on how interested I am in the murder mystery.

I was annoyed with the level of "catch up" Reichs did - I can understand wanting a new reader to be able to pick up any Bones book and understand the players, but by the 11th book in the series, I really don't need to spend pages on what Tempe's j...more
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Amy
09/18/08
Amy rated it: 2 of 5 stars

i feel an obligation to read all of her books because i started with the first one when it came out a million years ago. i recall the first ones to be pretty good. this is the 11th brennan novel, and it annoyed me to no end. primarily the foreshadowing she uses at the end of each short chapter, usually reading "And things were going to get worse. Much worse." EVERY SINGLE CHAPTER. ugh. mostly her writing just got worse. i can't even recall the plot, something to do with bones in a caul...more
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Lorraine
bookshelves: listened-to, mystery
Read in March, 2009
recommends it for: no one but hard-core Reichs fans
If this was the first Reichs book I read, I don't know that I'd read any more. Nothing about it was memorable or unique enough to set it apart from other mystery books. There was a bit less of the smart/stupid Brennan than the last book, less of textbook explanation of various sciences, fewer rhetorical questions, but still too many for me. The other annoying bit about the writing was the "telling" not "showing" of action and emotion. The only example that comes to mind a...more
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Bernadette
bookshelves: crime-fiction
Read in April, 2009
I normally start out my reviews with a brief synopsis of events that take place in the first 40-50 pages of a book but in all honesty I can’t think of more than a sentence to say about this one. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist, is called in when a skull is found under the flooring of an old house in North Carolina. Nothing else that develops the plot in any meaningful way happens before page 75. There’s a history lesson about the town of Charlotte, a swag of stultifying detail ab...more
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Patty
11/02/08
Patty rated it: 1 of 5 stars

Kathy Reichs joins the ranks of so many writers who feel compelled to produce a book every year and end up producing crap. I used to so enjoy her books -- but she has gone downhill fast and this might be the last one that I read.

Devil Bones' only saving grace was that it was quick to read .. but only because of the # of pages, not because of the content. There were too many peripheral characters that added nothing to the plot except to make it confusing. I also prefer the books that...more
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Valerie
02/14/09
Valerie rated it: 4 of 5 stars

bookshelves: tv-made-me-do-it
Read in February, 2009
recommends it for: Mom, Kathy, Debbie
This series if filled with scientific goodness and wit. I thought this one ended too quickly.
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Sheila
02/06/09
Sheila rated it: 5 of 5 stars

Read in February, 2009
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Garrett
01/28/09
Garrett rated it: 2 of 5 stars

Read in January, 2009
This is the first book of the series that I've read. There are a few interesting things about the style that I like. When you get to the last line of a chapter, there is always something that makes you want to turn the page and keep on going.

Of course, there are a couple of things that just keep on going, but should probably end sooner. Tempe has some difficulties in figuring out what is odd about one of the bodies found in this book. With all of the clues scattered about, you would ...more
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Peggy Walker
02/18/09
Peggy Walker rated it: 3 of 5 stars

Read in February, 2009
recommends it for: Fans of Kathy Reichs, CSI, forensic science .
I actually learned a lot that I either didn't know or had forgotten. This is Reich's 11th Temperance Brennan book, and she spends some time telling the reader who she is, what she does, where she works, a lot about Charlotte, NC as a setting, and where she is in her life. It was helpful, actually, since I have not read the whole series, and have read in random order.

Another reviewer pointed out that she tended to end every chapter with some version of "...what happened next wa...more
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Mary
12/10/08
Mary rated it: 3 of 5 stars

bookshelves: mystery-crime-fiction
Read in December, 2008
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called in on a case that might involve devil worshippers, or Wiccans, or practicers on Santeria ... actually, she and her fellow investigators are having difficulty deciding just what happened to the victim found in the crawl space of a North Carolina home.
This was one of the better offerings in this series. It's been a little while since I read the last few, but I seem to remember being somewhat disappointed - though that sometimes happens wh...more
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Ines
02/21/09
Ines rated it: 3 of 5 stars

bookshelves: medical-thriller
Read in March, 2009
It's been so long since my last Kathy Reichs book that I forget what it's like to read one of these. The pace of the book is fast and the language flows nicely, making it quite an enjoyable read. The book is also informative, providing a concise background of Santeria and voodoo.

Unfortunately, that's all I can say for the book. It was a bit hard to follow (but this could be because I took a three day break halfway through the book) and Tempe seemed to randomly jump to conclusions tha...more
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Lorna
04/28/09
Lorna rated it: 3 of 5 stars

Read in April, 2009
There was a lot of interesting stuff in this book about alternative religious groups. It clarifys the original presmise of Voodoo and others. It addresses the hysterical responses of christians to the aforementioned and others, exploring their origins, customs, rituals and reasoning behind them. These native religions which were masked using christian saints to prevent persecution from the christian masters!

Two main distractions for me though, I do not think that Reichs has mast...more
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Ermabom
09/13/08
Ermabom rated it: 4 of 5 stars

I've read all of Kathy Reichs' books and they are pretty formulaic. I love them because they keep me engaged. I thought this one was a bit more shallow than previous books and there was no real surprise twist at the end, though she tried to create one.

However, I had a difficult time putting the book down when I had to go to work on Thurs.
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Robin
08/30/08
Robin rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in September, 2008
Another gripping book by Kathy Reichs. Unlike Patricia Cornwell she's maintained a level of enjoyment and writing throughout her series that constantly keeps me coming back.
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Barb
01/03/09
Barb rated it: 2 of 5 stars

recommends it for: no one
So I really needed something to read and I made a quick library run and this was one of the books I chose. I was not familiar with this author (although I do like the TV show Bones) and didn't realize this was part of a series. Read the book anyway and it was so ho-hum that I doubt that I'll go back and read any more. Plus, this author irritated me as she dangled a carrot at the end of every chapter that was supposed to be an inducement to keep going - she'd write that things were going to ge...more
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Trina
03/13/09
Trina rated it: 2 of 5 stars

Read in March, 2009
OK. I found myself being bugged by all the cliffhangers. And then I saw what I least expected...new chapter, If I had acted differently no one would have died...new chapter, etc. That and I could never remember who she was talking about it. Even at the big climax. It was along the lines of "And then I saw..." and I'm wracking my brain and flipping pages trying to remember who exactly it is that now turns out to be the killer. She never gives the readers reminders- just expects us to re...more
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Laurel
04/16/09
Laurel rated it: 1 of 5 stars

Read in March, 2009
This is one of many many books in Reichs' Temperance series. For those who don't know, the hit TV show Bones is based off of Reichs' books. While I love most of Reichs' books, mainly because they are easy to read and drop lots of forensic pathology tidbits into the murders, DO NOT waste your time on this book. HIGHLY disappointed. Too many characters with little back story to them, little touches on wicca and witchcraft (but not enough to be interesting, and too complicated of a story line t...more
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Julie
10/31/08
Julie rated it: 3 of 5 stars

Read in October, 2008
Hummmm.... It's okay. More of Tempe Brennan doing her anthropological pathology.

This time a giant iron cauldron filled with dirt and bones is uncovered in a basement and the bones are analyzed by Tempe. Then a headless corpse is found on a beach, with an odd lack of decomposition. (A side mystery which I figured out almost instantly, and which took Dr. Brennan the remainder of the book to figure out, much to my annoyance.)

I didn’t care much about the mystery, and ...more
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Stephanie
09/30/08
Stephanie rated it: 2 of 5 stars

bookshelves: disappointing
Read in December, 2008
Good God I waited FOREVER for my name to come up at the library to get this one, and I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad I didn't break down and buy it, even at Costco prices...

I have read Reichs since book #1 in the series, and instantly preferred her to Cornwell, but ugh. I HATED the way she kept ending every chapter with some sort of cliffhanger so the reader would feel compelled to go on. By the time I was 2/3 of the way through this one, I didn't care WHOSE bones were in the cauldron, ...more
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Sarah Librarian
09/18/08
Sarah Librarian rated it: 5 of 5 stars

I just finished reading this (as in, like, 15 minutes ago) and loved it. This is the eleventh (I think) book in the Temperance Brennan series, and like all of the others, I totally enjoyed it. Kathy Reichs' does a great balance between Brennan's personal life, the cases she solves, and the educating she does in the book. Many mystery authors gloss over the details, or delve too deeply into them, but in Reichs' case, she does a really good job of educating us with the relevant bits of scientific,...more
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