Customer Reviews
tedious, shallow plot..... - By: Jacko, 19 Nov 2008 
As always, really looking forward to the latest Tempe tome. Really wish I hadn't bothered. Characters didn't seem to care much about what was happening, & neither did I. Ryan turns up and......what happens? Well, nothing. Tempe attacked & hospitalised, does Katy turn up to see her? No. Unless you just want to collect a 'set' of Reichs novels, skip this one. Did I mention that it was also rather depressing/ Notin content, butin tone & style. Avoid.
Enjoyable until the ending - By: Bluebell, 07 Nov 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 formulaicin the way they ended with her forensic anthropologist heroine, Temperance Brennan, beingin fear of her life, attacked & injured. She's supposed to be a forensic scientist not a law-enforcement officer & by repeating the same scenarioin each book it becomes unbelievable & annoying. I thought the basic story was good & will continue to buy her booksin the hope that Tempe will manage to get through a case without ending upin hospital! I'd welcome fewer acronyms familiar to USA readers, but not for the rest of us.
Standard set for genre - By: Gareth Wilson, 17 Oct 2008 Within the writing world certain authors become the best known & 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 airingin the UK currently.
Each tale is well written, has had a huge amount of research put within & 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 & with the smoky on/off, will they, won't they relationships between the principle characters & the reader is treated to a story that will keep them glued to the last page.
A slow return to form by Reichs - By: J. Bowen, 16 Oct 2008 
This book stars Temperance Brennan, like all of Kathy Reich's other books.
In this book Brennan is calledin to examine some bones that seem to be related to devil worshiping of some sort. Given that this book is setin the Deep South, this leads to an up risingin the moral majority, who see the practice as cause for concern.
When bodies start dropping left & right, the police, & 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 upin a bow, & there's less of a tendency by Reichs, the author, to remind us of the plot so far every 20 pages, which she's donein 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 wasin other books either."
She's getting boring - By: Kb Aps Hawkins, 13 Oct 2008 
I was once an avid fan of K.R However her books are getting more technical & borders on the boring, she includes every minute details of process, & while this might be required by a court of law, it isn't all required by the reader. & 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 itin the past that many times, why oh why does she have to go on so much, & the amount of double & triple blank seperation pages are increasing with each book.
