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Spider Bones

(Temperance Brennan #13)

Kathy Reichs (Goodreads Author)

3.92 · Rating details · 22,923 ratings · 1,354 reviews

Kathy Reichs—#1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bones—returns with the thirteenth riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan.

John Lowery was declared dead in 1968—the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the s ...more

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Oct 10, 2010 Bree T rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: series, crime, mystery, fiction

I quite like the Temperance Brennan novels. I've read all of them and so far there's only been 1 that I really didn't enjoy at all, which I think is a pretty good strike rate when there's been 12 of them. Well unfortunately, my toll now stands at 2/13. I didn't get into this book either.

Like Brennan, Reichs herself is a forensic anthropologist and she always claims that she never writes a novel and puts Temperance in a medical situation that she herself hasn't been in personally. She's obviously I quite like the Temperance Brennan novels. I've read all of them and so far there's only been 1 that I really didn't enjoy at all, which I think is a pretty good strike rate when there's been 12 of them. Well unfortunately, my toll now stands at 2/13. I didn't get into this book either.

Like Brennan, Reichs herself is a forensic anthropologist and she always claims that she never writes a novel and puts Temperance in a medical situation that she herself hasn't been in personally. She's obviously very smart, very knowledgable in her field but for the average layman who doesn't have a science brain (like myself) the long winded descriptions of procedures, tests, etc can feel like a lecture. Even when Temperance is supposed to be using “dumbed down” language, it often doesn't feel like that. Or maybe I'm just more dumbed down than the people in the books she's explaining things to? Anyway, it sometimes leads to me flicking pages in boredom until the pages of scientific descriptions stop. And that happened quite often in this novel.

Firstly – the abbreviations. There are oh so many of them and my brain can only keep track of so many acronyms at a time. It's even harder because I'm not American and don't have even a passing knowledge with some of these organisations. But I'm getting ahead of myself...plot first.

A floater is found somewhere in Quebec, Canada and due to being in the water, the body isn't easily identifiable so Tempe is called in to do her thing. Fingerprints identity the man as John Lowery which is a slight problem, as it's 2010 and apparently, John Lowery was declared dead in 1968 in Vietnam after a Chopper crash. Everyone is confused...if Lowery was a Vietnam soldier killed in action, how did he come to be in Canada? Tempe exumes the grave of John Lowery in North Carolina and finds that there is a partial skeleton inside that is supposed to be Lowery. Tempe decides to head to Hawaii to the headquarters of JPAC (one of those acronyms!) an organisation who dedicates itself to recovering American soldiers killed in conflict and bringing them home. Soon after arriving in Hawaii there turns up another body and this one has John Lowery's dogtags. So 3 bodies, all supposedly the same man. Which is the real Lowery and who are the other two? Tempe as always, is determined to find answers and justice for the fallen. Add in a threat on her life, her daughter Katy in a depression and Ryan and his daughter Lily and that's about the ballgame.

The plot was actually kind of interesting but I'm used to more action within these novels. There's always lots of creeping around and questioning people and Tempe usually getting herself involved in all sorts of things that she shouldn't be involved in and a pretty decent climax. This book lacked...a lot of things. Okay there was an attempt on Tempe's life but it was pretty lame, came out of no where and then totally fizzled out and was related to some random side case that Tempe got pulled on in out of no where. There was so much talking and explaining of organisations and DNA and other sorts of procedures and it was boring. The idea of an organisation that works to bring fallen soldiers home to their families for a proper burial was nice but there were some glaring errors made by an incompetent employee that led to remains being identified incorrectly which has potential disaster written all over it. I've no idea if that sort of thing occurs in real life, it probably does. Mistakes are made every day, I know it sometimes can't be helped, but you'd have to feel for people who were told remains were those of their son/father/brother/husband/etc and then later it turned out that they weren't.

Tempe's daughter Katy features more prominently in this one than she does in other novels and that's not necessarily a good thing. Katy is a selfish and often immature 24yo who is best left to just being the voice on the end of the phone whining about how much she hates her boring job now that she's graduated from university after a whopping 6 years. Ryan's daughter Lily appears more in this book too, mostly just to squabble with Katy. They both act like they're 12 years old for most of their time together and it's mostly just irritating. I think both of them could do with a good slap. Even Ryan was a nothing character this time around. And yes, she's still calling him Ryan! Can't she call him Andy even once? Or Andrew? Anything other than his last name, which, for a guy that she's slept with on and off for years now, is fairly ridiculous. It bugs me probably more than it should but hearing her refer to him as Ryan was confusing because I started to think his name was Ryan for a while, forgetting about the whole Andrew bit. At least this book laid off the devotion to describing his eyes twenty-seven different shades of blue.

I usually don't mind the fast pacing but the sentence fragments in this novel were very offputting and a bit reminiscent of the other book in this series I didn't enjoy, Cross Bones. At least Tempe and Ryan weren't acting like 4yos although I swear at the end of the previous book, 206 Bones that they were just about back together. However when Mortal Remains/Spider Bones opens up it's pretty clear that they are most definitely at an 'off' stage of their relationship. Ryan does a bit of half-hearted trying to get things going again but that mostly just involves him making vaguely suggestive remarks about getting back into Tempe's pants and Tempe pretending that she doesn't hear/understand what he's saying. Usually there's a bit of sexual tension between them but in this novel it was completely absent! I think the time has come for Tempe to make a decision about Ryan and if Reichs has no intentions getting them back together than they need to move him into the background. And if the are going to get back together, well then they need to do it. Without them having issues and breaking up in like every book from here on in. It's just getting really old.

Choppy disjointed writing, far too much explanation and lecturing on details of everything, lack of character development/growth, lack of sexual tension between anyone, confusing plot with far too many bodies and too many peripheral characters. If I hadn't of been reading this for the read-a-thon it's quite likely I might never have finished it. ...more

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Jan 05, 2013 Megan Baxter rated it liked it · review of another edition

This is the first Kathy Reichs I've read, and, well, I didn't hate it. (Unlike the Patricia Cornwell I read last year.) But neither am I really grabbed by it. Will I read more? Only time will tell, and whether or not one of my lists coughs up one for me to read. I certainly won't avoid it, but I know there's at least one mystery writer writing forensic anthropology mysteries that my mother likes more. Maybe I'll search him out.

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Jun 11, 2011 Sandie rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-lit, 20th-century-women, thrillers-and-mystery, 2011-books

Recently took a short trip and decided to take along Kathy Reichs SPIDER BONES on CD to help alleviate the boredom of a ride across the desert. I came away from the experience vowing never to read or listen to another offering in this series. My dissatisfaction stems from many sources. I will attempt to enumerate just a few.

1. Her relationship with Ryan. The green-eyed monster rears its ugly head every time another woman comes on the scene, in this case Honolulu medical examiner Hadley Perry. Te ...more

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Oct 28, 2010 Richard rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: kathy-reichs

I've been a longtime fan of this series (and the show) but I must admit, this newest effort was such a wank job. Uninteresting story with a resolution that was so confusing, I didn't understand what was going on even as it was explained to me.

Reichs strains mightily to get Tempe out of the office and into the line of fire and shoehorns into the narrative 2-3 action scenes that feel forced and are unbelievable. The end, when both Tempe and Ryan's daughters are put in danger, is a series' lowpoint ...more

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Sep 29, 2011 Lyn Battersby rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Being a huge fan of the TV series, I really really really want to love the books.

I don't.

I try and I try and I try, but at some point I have to shake my head and move on to something else.

I'm a student at uni and like to read crime novels for light relief between study, assignments and exams. I want something that pushes me to think, but that entertains me at the same time. Somewhere along the line, Reichs fails to achieve this.

I've tried to work out what I don't like and I think it comes down ...more

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Aug 20, 2011 Kendra rated it liked it · review of another edition

The Queen of Unbelievable Coincidences strikes again. Seriously, why has no one with any influence over Kathy Reichs ever sat her down and explained that she can't keep forcing connections between cases that have no business being related? It takes away from an otherwise great series.

In this one, Tempe starts out with a body in Canada, but heads back to the States (NC, of course) when the body is identified as a man who reportedly died during the Vietnam war. Then it's off to Hawaii for some Lin ...more

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Jul 11, 2017 Arnis rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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May 06, 2011 Jennifer rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery

Why read: Love the series

What impressed me: I loved Tempe in Hawaii. I loved her vacationing with her daughter and I loved seeing her work in a new place with a different group of people. I absolutely loved Tempe and Ryan spending time together, with their respective kids, and not having everything be sort of overwhelmed by work as it usually is. The mystery was completely unforeseeable. I thought I had it figured out a couple of times, but was always proven wrong.

What disappointed me: I'm sort ...more

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Dec 10, 2018 Alaina rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary, romance, fiction, mystery, december-challenge-2018

Not a lot happened in this book...

Spider Bones was a pretty quick audio to listen to while at work. In it, Tempe and her daughter go to Hawaii to try to have a vacation. lmfao, yeah.. sure. While there, she is of course working on a murder case. She also invited Ryan and his daughter to come join them.

The duo definitely worked some magic on this case and by the end of the book, it was solved. It also didn't hurt that it was kind of like a family thing as well. Their daughters both had a hand in ...more

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Apr 15, 2017 Paula Brandon rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I'm not sure I can explain the plot of this one. It gets complicated! Basically, a body is found that is identified as John Lowery, but records show he died in Vietnam forty years earlier! Dr Temperance Brennan must exhume the grave that everybody thought was John Lowery and take it to Hawaii for reanalysis, as they are obviously the bones of a different veteran. While in Hawaii, another body is found, which has John Lowery's dog tags on them! Who is who? Tied in with all of this are remains tha I'm not sure I can explain the plot of this one. It gets complicated! Basically, a body is found that is identified as John Lowery, but records show he died in Vietnam forty years earlier! Dr Temperance Brennan must exhume the grave that everybody thought was John Lowery and take it to Hawaii for reanalysis, as they are obviously the bones of a different veteran. While in Hawaii, another body is found, which has John Lowery's dog tags on them! Who is who? Tied in with all of this are remains that look as if they are the result of a shark attack.

I thought the last Kathy Reichs book (206 Bones) was below average, but she more than makes up for it with this one! In fact, this is better than the last few I've read. As I always say, I love a good story, and I got one here! That helped me overlook some things that bothered me - too much description about travel routes. I'm sure with all the detail provided here Kathy Reichs must have claimed a trip to Hawaii herself on tax (for "research" purposes)! There was also too many instances of a history provided on places and things that wasn't necessary, plus a gratuitous dream sequence.

However, the complex web behind the identities of the three dead bodies was fascinating, and managed to somewhat tie in with the shark victim bodies as well. Quite clever! Drug trafficking and gang warfare does play a part in the plot, which initially had me worried because I find that sort of plot so dull, but it's only references through dialogue, thankfully. The story is capped off with some plot twists - and scientific twists - and a fairly suspenseful climax. It has me wanting to go back and watch Bones, which I abandoned some time during the fifth season. And read more of the books, of course!

Note: In Australia, the version I read was called Mortal Remains, a tactic I find very, very annoying. Book publishers seem to be in denial that the Internet even exists! Do they really think people can't go on-line and find these things out themselves?!? So I'm reviewing it under the title it was meant to be published under. ...more

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Jun 12, 2019 Wonda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: detective-series-runner-ups, guilty-pleasures

4! Another bias novel...Love Tempe and Ryan...can't with to see what happens between the two! But still not as a good as the tv show. I wish I would I read through the book series first!

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May 24, 2010 CJ - It's only a Paper Moon rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, fiction

To keep this short -

Tempe is back for her thirteenth book and I haven't been so intrigued about the victims for a very long time. It's a good thing to because this book is not full of Tempe's indecision about Ryan "leaving her" (although in my opinion, he gave her a chance to fight in the book before they break it off it is about the victims and their weaknesses that led to a chain reaction 40 years after Vietnam.

Soldiers dead in Vietnam, a body found in Canada and a drug ring in Hawaii all come ...more

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Sep 11, 2011 Andrew rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Ok I will admit its been some time since I have read a Kathy Reichs book and I had forgotten how twisted and interwound the plot can be - maybe a few years away from her work allowed me to forget this and enjoy the story style all over again - No it is not Bone its something wholly different and to me far more enjoyable for it. I wont comment on the book - if you want to know about it read the blurb as any more and I will give the plot away and that is for people far more eloquent and creative t ...more

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Oct 15, 2010 Bree T rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: crime, mystery, series, fiction

I quite like the Temperance Brennan novels. I’ve read all of them and so far there had been only 1 that I really didn’t enjoy at all, which I think is a pretty good strike rate when there’s 12 novels to the series. Well unfortunately, my toll now stands at 2/13. I didn’t get into this book either.

Like Brennan, Reichs herself is a forensic anthropologist and she always claims that she never writes a novel and puts Temperance in a medical situation that she herself hasn’t been in personally. She’s I quite like the Temperance Brennan novels. I’ve read all of them and so far there had been only 1 that I really didn’t enjoy at all, which I think is a pretty good strike rate when there’s 12 novels to the series. Well unfortunately, my toll now stands at 2/13. I didn’t get into this book either.

Like Brennan, Reichs herself is a forensic anthropologist and she always claims that she never writes a novel and puts Temperance in a medical situation that she herself hasn’t been in personally. She’s obviously very smart, very knowledgable in her field but for the average layman who doesn’t have a science brain (like myself) the long winded descriptions of procedures, tests, etc can, very occasionally, feel like a lecture. Even when Temperance is supposed to be using “dumbed down” language in this novel, it often doesn’t feel like that. Or maybe I’m just more dumbed down than the people in the book she’s explaining things to? Anyway, it sometimes leads to me flicking pages in boredom until the pages of scientific descriptions stop. And that happened quite often in this novel.

Firstly – the abbreviations. There are oh so many of them and my brain can only keep track of so many acronyms at a time. It’s even harder because I’m not American and don’t have even a passing knowledge with some of these organisations. But I’m getting ahead of myself…plot first.

A floater is found somewhere in Quebec, Canada and due to being in the water, the body isn’t easily identifiable so Tempe is called in to do her thing. Fingerprints identity the man as John Lowery which is a slight problem, as it’s 2010 and apparently, John Lowery was declared dead in 1968 in Vietnam after a Chopper crash. Everyone is much confused – if Lowery was a Vietnam soldier killed in action, how did he come to be in Canada? Tempe exumes the grave of John Lowery in North Carolina and finds that there is a partial skeleton inside that is supposed to be Lowery. Tempe decides to head to Hawaii to the headquarters of JPAC (one of those acronyms!) an organisation who dedicates itself to recovering American soldiers killed in conflict and bringing them home. Soon after arriving in Hawaii there turns up another body and this one has John Lowery’s dogtags. So 3 bodies, all supposedly the same man. Which is the real Lowery and who are the other two? Tempe as always, is determined to find answers and justice for the fallen. Add in a threat on her life, her daughter Katy in a depression and Ryan and his daughter Lily and that’s about the ballgame.

The plot was actually kind of interesting but I’m used to more action within these novels. There’s always lots of creeping around and questioning people and Tempe usually getting herself involved in all sorts of things that she shouldn’t be involved in and a pretty decent climax. This book lacked…a lot of things. Okay there was an attempt on Tempe’s life but it was pretty lame, came out of nowhere and then totally fizzled out and was related to some random side case that Tempe got pulled in on out of no where. There was so much talking and explaining of organisations and DNA and other sorts of procedures and it was boring. The idea of an organisation that works to bring fallen soldiers home to their families for a proper burial was nice but there were some glaring errors made by an incompetent employee that led to remains being identified incorrectly which has potential disaster written all over it. I’ve no idea if that sort of thing occurs in real life, it probably does. Mistakes are made every day, I know it sometimes can’t be helped, but you’d have to feel for people who were told remains were those of their son/father/brother/husband/etc and then later it turned out that they weren’t.

Tempe’s daughter Katy features more prominently in this one than she does in other novels and that’s not necessarily a good thing. Katy is a selfish and often immature 24yo who is best left to just being the voice on the end of the phone whining about how much she hates her boring job now that she’s graduated from university after a whopping 6 years. Ryan’s daughter Lily appears more in this book too, mostly just to squabble with Katy. They both act like they’re 12 years old for most of their time together and it’s mostly just irritating. I think both of them could do with a good slap. Even Ryan was a nothing character this time around. And yes, she’s still calling him Ryan! Can’t she call him Andy even once? Or Andrew? Anything other than his last name, which, for a guy that she’s slept with on and off for years now, is fairly ridiculous. It bugs me probably more than it should but hearing her refer to him as Ryan was confusing because I started to think his name was Ryan for a while, forgetting about the whole Andrew bit. At least this book laid off the devotion to describing his eyes twenty-seven different shades of blue.

I usually don’t mind the fast pacing but the sentence fragments in this novel were very offputting and a bit reminiscent of the other book in this series I didn’t enjoy, Cross Bones. At least Tempe and Ryan weren’t acting like 4yos although I swear at the end of the previous book, 206 Bones that they were just about back together. However when Mortal Remains opens up it’s pretty clear that they are most definitely at an ‘off’ stage of their relationship. Ryan does a bit of half-hearted trying to get things going again but that mostly just involves him making vaguely suggestive remarks about getting back into Tempe’s pants and Tempe pretending that she doesn’t hear/understand what he’s saying. Usually there’s a bit of sexual tension between them but in this novel it was completely absent! I think the time has come for Tempe to make a decision about Ryan and if Reichs has no intentions getting them back together than they need to move him into the background. And if they are going to get back together, well then they need to do it. Without them having issues and breaking up in like every book from here on in. It’s just getting really old.

Choppy disjointed writing, far too much explanation and lecturing on details of everything, lack of character development/growth, lack of sexual tension between anyone, confusing plot with far too many bodies and too many peripheral characters, not to mention what felt like hundreds of acronyms. It was confusing – I had trouble remembering what organisation did what, what they used to be called before X happened, or they merged with Y, etc. If I hadn’t of been reading this for the read-a-thon it’s quite likely I might never have finished it. That’s kind of sad, because I normally like these books quite a bit. ...more

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Jul 13, 2019 Betty rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: het-crime, mainstream-thriller

Tempe number 13. Is an OK read. No more. This is also the 13th I've read, and although it is all right, it doesn't have the vigour of the previous 12, not for me anyway.

So many acronyms got bandied about that this time it became a real chore. The plot is complex and the confusion of the plot mirrored that of the reader, and I'm still not sure it was explained well. It's all very well being a clever writer, with a clever plot, but the reader sometimes needs a little more to play catchup.

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Aug 16, 2019 Kathleen Dixon rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: crime-mystery-spy-thriller, hawaii

I started reading the Temperance Brennan books in the year 2000 - this is probably my favourite crime series and it's always great to pick up the next one and immerse myself once again in her world.

This particular one has us going to Hawaii (how I love travelling through the books I read!) to uncover the mystery of bones found in a lake in Canada (Quebec), which belong to a man killed in Vietnam and supposedly buried in North Carolina. It gets even more complicated . . .

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Jul 26, 2017 Sheila Myers rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller

This is my favorite Kathy Reichs book I've read to date. The plot was interesting and had several great twists and turns. More than that, I enjoyed reading about how POW/MIA remains are handles and identified.

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Jan 26, 2012 juicy brained intellectual rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: ebooks, do-not-own

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Nov 20, 2010 Thebookmistress rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: tpl

What I like about the series is the Montreal setting, where applicable, and the police procedural/forensic stuff. What I thoroughly disliked, enough to stop reading the series, was the way Temperance was always the center of any mystery, going alone into every lair of evildoers, being the motivation behind every nutcase's decision to start killing people...

I am glad I picked up this one. The Hawaii setting was interesting. There was still a lot of her personal life, but, for once, there was some ...more

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Sep 07, 2010 Sharon rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: forensic-sciences

I'm a big fan of Kathy Reichs' books, of which Spider Bones is the most recent. In this outing, protagonist Temperance Brennan is asked to bring her forensic anthropology skills to bear when three different sets of remains are identified as belonging to the same man.

Clearly, this is impossible.

Brennan is whisked off to the military's Joint Prisoners of War/Missing in Action Command (JPAC), because the man in question, John Lowery, is cited as having died during the Vietnam war.

Along the way, Bre ...more

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Aug 19, 2010 elizabeth • paper ghosts rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, mysteries

I have to admit, I've never read a Kathy Reichs book before this one. I'm a devout fan of the TV show "Bones", but once I learned there weren't too many similarities between the two, I just kinda forgot about them. Oh, I was so wrong! I absolutely devoured this in under 24 hours. The case was totally intriguing, and it was such an easy read. I really didn't fee lost at any moment, regardless of what I've missed in previous books. I think I may have to start making her a regular author of mine. F ...more

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Aug 29, 2010 Holly McIntyre rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This book reminds me of the old carny game of putting a pea under a cup and then moving the cups around while maintaining a distracting chatter. I spotted the "pea" early in the book and spent much of the rest of it wondering why the characters hadn't noticed it, too. Still, it's a good, exciting mystery well-worth a weekend read.

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Mar 26, 2011 Barbara ★ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: zzz-cover-trees, read-2015, mystery-medical-forensic, x-set-in-usa-hawaii

Another fine entry in the Temperance Brennan series. And yay Andrew Ryan is back! I just love him as he cracks me up with his dry one-liners which so lighten the heavy mood. This time they are in Hawaii working on identifying POW/MIAs from Vietnam. I really like how this series blends reality with fiction giving just enough information to make things believable while staying in the story.

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Jan 13, 2014 Mizuki marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: detective-novels, disappointment

DNF at page 40. I didn't read long enough to decide whether this book is good or bad, but I'm bored and I'm not willing to continue.

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Nov 29, 2016 Tom rated it liked it · review of another edition

Pretty much the same but Temperance was actually not a complete b#tch in this one.

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Oct 20, 2018 Angela rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I have been following this series of books for many years now and have always enjoyed every reading experience. Recently I have revisited them again as my daughter wanted me to buddy read them with her after discovering the television series and then seeing the books in our bookshelves. Even though I explained that the books and TV show are two different entities, she was still determined to read them. So here I am, many books later and enjoying them just as much as I did the first time. I am gl ...more

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Mar 22, 2020 Meredith Reads rated it liked it · review of another edition

I selected this book after binge watching Bones. I have watched the series for many years and decided to read one of the books upon which the series was based. I admit, I am a bit disappointed despite knowing there were dramatic differences between the books and the television series; there always are as writing for one medium is inherently different than writing for the other.

The biggest disappointment, for me, was the archaic references and out-of-date phrasing. I had to keep reminding myself ...more

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Nov 18, 2018 Amanda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is 13th in the Temperance Brennan series (Bones TV show was based on this series). I say this with every Brennan book and I'll say it again: this series is 1000 times better than the show. I liked the show at first but then, I didn't.

You might know that Brennan is a forensic anthropologist and spends her time between Montreal and North Carolina, doing whatever work is needed for any case that needs her. She's called to a body that was found wrapped in plastic and weighted down with a rock t ...more

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Sep 14, 2018 Kristen Lewendon rated it liked it · review of another edition

I started reading this, expecting to hate it. There wasn’t much I truly enjoyed of the previous couple of books, so I anticipated that my reaction would mirror many of the less enthusiastic reviewers of this story. Maybe it's because I'm a sucker for all things military, and the military angle is so prevalent in this story, but a lot of the things that seemed to drive the unhappiest reviewers crazy, didn’t bother me that much. Acronym overkill – that’s classic military. Sulky, snarky Katy – soun ...more

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Sep 04, 2017 Robin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: digital, library, kathy-reichs, temprence-brennan, 2017

Good book. Did not want to put it down.

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Quotes from Mortal Remains

“then flats of marigolds and petunias. Made of sterner stuff, I figured, their sort might survive my regime of horticultural neglect.” — 2 likes

“One, she’d gotten no hits with the MP families. Two, Honolulu PD Detectives Lô and Hung would begin canvassing hospitals first thing in the morning.” — 2 likes

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