Speaking in Bones A Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Kathy Reichs Katherine Borowitz Random House Audio Books
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No one speaks the language of suspense more brilliantly than Kathy Reichs, number-one New York Times best-selling author of the acclaimed Temperance Brennan series. In Speaking in Bones, the forensic anthropologist finds herself drawn into a world of dark secrets and dangerous beliefs, where good and evil blur.
Professionally, Temperance Brennan knows exactly what to do - test, analyze, identify. Her personal life is another story. She's at a loss, wondering how to answer police detective Andrew Ryan's marriage proposal. But the matter of matrimony takes a backseat when murder rears its head.
Hazel "Lucky" Strike - a strident amateur detective who mines the Internet for cold cases - comes to Brennan with a tape recording of an unknown girl being held prisoner and terrorized. Strike is convinced the voice is that of 18-year-old Cora Teague, who went missing more than three years earlier. Strike is also certain that the teenager's remains are gathering dust in Temperance Brennan's lab.
Brennan has doubts about working with a self-styled websleuth. But when the evidence seems to add up, Brennan's next stop is the treacherous backwoods where the chilling recording (and maybe Cora Teague's bones) were discovered. Her forensic field trip turns up only more disturbing questions - along with gruesome proof of more untimely deaths.
While local legends of eerie nocturnal phenomena and sinister satanic cults abound, it's a zealous and secretive religious sect that has Brennan spooked and struggling to separate the saints from the sinners. But there's nothing, including fire and brimstone, that can distract her from digging up the truth and taking down a killer - even as Brennan finds herself in a place where angels fear to tread, devils demand their due, and she may be damned no matter what.
Speaking in Bones A Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Kathy Reichs Katherine Borowitz Random House Audio Books
I've read the entire Temperance Brennan series, and was very excited when my sister told me a new book was out. Unfortunately, this one was very disappointing. Usually, I would read the entire novel in a day, staying up late because I hated to put it down. But it took me almost a week to get through this story.The book was slow paced, and it simply didn't keep my attention. Worse, I actually started disliking the main character. She was judgemental, arrogant and narcissistic.
** A bit of a spoiler here**
I got so tired of the - 'there was a message from Ryan. I ignored it.' or 'I turned off my ringer so I wouldn't have to speak to Ryan'. Then there was the wonderful - 'I need to talk to Ryan. Why isn't he returning my calls?'
Well, duh. The big question for me was why he didn't tell her to take a hike. I especially loved when she told him the reason she couldn't commit to him was because he saves her when she's in trouble. She tells him that she doesn't need his help. But, she sure as hell needs someone's help - all the time! I guess that's okay; just as long as it's not him. It was ludicrous.
There was also a heavy anti-religious bias throughout the book, as well as a general arrogance (yes, I've said this before). Just driving into a town she deduces the residents must be religious creeps who have guns. In truth, the people she ends up having to deal with are fanatics. But there is an undercurrent in her thought process where she infers that anyone religious falls into that category, just at a different level.
When a doctor tells her what medicine he prescribed for one of the characters (who is a minor), then tells her the father refused his care, and took his daughter off the medicine, she bad mouths the doctor to anyone and everyone who will listen to her. He's a quack. He shouldn't have a license. She's obviously ignorant to the fact that if the patient is a minor, and the parent won't let her take prescribed medicine or come back to see him, that doctor can't barge into the home and hold them at gunpoint to make the kid take her pills. Yet, Dr. Brennan seems to forget this little tidbit. She's too busy bad-mouthing everyone.
When her mother falls in love, Temp's first reaction is to freak out and ask if her mother is taking her pills. Yes, that would be my first reaction too. Because anyone over 50 can't possibly fall in love. She must be having a mental breakdown of some sort.
It seems that Temp is obsessed over ''pills" in this book.
I just don't understand what happened to this author, and why her character is so unlikable in this story. But, almost everything she did rubbed me the wrong way.
As for the story itself, the plot kept stumbling over itself. It seemed she was just trying to fill up the pages with useless scenes and dialog on many occasions. Yes, there are some twists to the story, but overall, it wasn't satisfying.
Will I read the next book in the series if there is one? Certainly. I've always enjoyed the series before this particular novel. And, unfortunately, it seems that when an author writes a series there is always that *one* book that doesn't measure up. It's the one you'll skip over if you ever decide to reread the series at a later date. I'm hopeful this was just that *one* book, and Kathy Reichs will be back on track next time.
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Speaking in Bones A Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Kathy Reichs Katherine Borowitz Random House Audio Books Reviews
It's always good to spend more time with Tempe, Skinny and Ryan. In this book, Kathy allows us to do that with a few more characters tossed in. The main plot seems to suffer, though from not having enough Skinny and Ryan involved. Tempe is pretty much on her own throughout much of the book and seems to spend an inordinate amount of time obsessing over her taxes and her relationship with Ryan.
This book appears to be transitional in nature. We can feel the universe shifting just a little bit as she avoids two of the mainstays in her investigational life to spend time with a deputy from another county. The story suffers from a distinct lack of clues and/or factual evidence and an abundance of introspection and gut feeling speculation about what happened.
I am hoping that the next novel in the series takes us to that new plane and the stories get more compelling.
But perhaps it was fairly good, only because it followed 'Bones Never Lie', which I found extremely tedious to read, with its only positive quality being that it was very irritating - if being very irritating is a positive quality that is.
It starts off very well, and moves along at a fair pace to its end, so it's a reasonable. A little too much backstory though. And why does Temperance Brennan persist in making obvious life threatening decisions, as she did in many of the previous novels, in this case twice in rapid succession?
I've been waiting for this book for a year it seems like, though if I checked the release dates I bet it hasn't been that long. I was ready for it as soon as I read the last words of the previous book, in fact. So to say that I was disappointed by the lack of Mr. Andrew Ryan throughout the book, you could see where I'm coming from. Not that he was completely missing, he just happened to be in Canada and Tempe was in Charlotte. But this series has never really been about romance, it's just there to help tell the story in places. It's about the mystery, the crimes, and of course, the bones. Maybe it was just me but it seemed the bones even took a step back for the mystery and crime this time out. And beyond the addition of a new tech trying to explain how she got results from some trace evidence, there wasn't much other science involved. There was a bit of medical information that was very interesting, and when that comes into the stories of this series, it raises the bar just a little more for the quality Dr Reichs is going to be held to in her next book.
I really enjoyed that the TV show "Bones" got two or three mentions in this book. Cracks me up, just like the TV Tempe writing crime novels under the pen name of Kathy Reichs. That the real Dr Reichs does or has done pretty much all of the jobs the book and tv Tempe do just impresses me all the more. She has been one busy woman throughout her life, and raised a family to go along with it all.
Somewhere I read a mention of Deputy Zeb Ramsey, and it read as if he was going to be a new point on a love triangle, but other than asking Tempe to dinner, after their case was done, he didn't really seem like he was getting in the way of anything. He did add to the story in other ways, knowing the area in which they needed to search very well, knowing the previous law enforcement officers that had worked on parts of this case in years past, having a dog trained to sniff out cadavers, drugs and bombs.
The case itself is just too difficult to try to explain without accidentally giving up a spoiler or two, at least for me. So read this next part with the idea in mind that I might spoil something, though I'll try very hard not to. A woman comes to Tempe and says that she is a websleuther. She has to explain that to Tempe (and me) but apparently it's people that find out about a missing person, or unidentified remains at the ME's office, and they try to find out what has happened to the missing person or identify the body or remains at the ME's office. They do this usually by searching the internet for clues about whichever type case they are working on. Hazel "Lucky" Strike is a websleuther and she believes a set of remains Tempe has at the ME's office are the remains of Cora Teague. She has just enough information to snag Tempe's attention. She also has a voice recorder she found in the same area where the remains were found, and the contents of the recorder are haunting. This first meeting with Lucky Strike gets Tempe hooked, and the story goes on from there.
I was also hooked from that first meeting with Lucky, I'd never heard of websleuthing, thought he idea kind of fascinates me now. To know there's tons of people out there trying to help bring home missing persons and help identify the remains of people lost in the system because their bodies were found too late to be identified by normal means just astounds me. These people aren't paid to do this, unless there would be a reward maybe, they just want to help the lost come home. Actually I guess they work on all different types of crimes, because there was mention of helping with murder investigations too. I'm sure like with any group of people, some can be more trouble than help to the police, and as with any group, those few troublesome ones get the whole group painted with the same brush, making law enforcement not want to work with any of them because of one bad experience or hearing about their cousin's hairdresser's brother's wife who's is a police officer in a state a thousand miles away having a bad experience with a websleuther, so obviously they're all bad. (No offense to law enforcement or websleuther intended, it's just how it goes sometimes!)
Overall I'd say if you're a fan of the Temperance Brennan books, go for it, read this book!! If you're new to the series, this might not be the best book to start on, because many things from the past are mentioned but not really explained, especially when it comes to Tempe and Ryan's relationship, which has spanned years by this point. I'd really recommend starting at the beginning if you were drawn to this book. They are all amazing, have great cases, and will keep you riveted for hours!!
I've read the entire Temperance Brennan series, and was very excited when my sister told me a new book was out. Unfortunately, this one was very disappointing. Usually, I would read the entire novel in a day, staying up late because I hated to put it down. But it took me almost a week to get through this story.
The book was slow paced, and it simply didn't keep my attention. Worse, I actually started disliking the main character. She was judgemental, arrogant and narcissistic.
** A bit of a spoiler here**
I got so tired of the - 'there was a message from Ryan. I ignored it.' or 'I turned off my ringer so I wouldn't have to speak to Ryan'. Then there was the wonderful - 'I need to talk to Ryan. Why isn't he returning my calls?'
Well, duh. The big question for me was why he didn't tell her to take a hike. I especially loved when she told him the reason she couldn't commit to him was because he saves her when she's in trouble. She tells him that she doesn't need his help. But, she sure as hell needs someone's help - all the time! I guess that's okay; just as long as it's not him. It was ludicrous.
There was also a heavy anti-religious bias throughout the book, as well as a general arrogance (yes, I've said this before). Just driving into a town she deduces the residents must be religious creeps who have guns. In truth, the people she ends up having to deal with are fanatics. But there is an undercurrent in her thought process where she infers that anyone religious falls into that category, just at a different level.
When a doctor tells her what medicine he prescribed for one of the characters (who is a minor), then tells her the father refused his care, and took his daughter off the medicine, she bad mouths the doctor to anyone and everyone who will listen to her. He's a quack. He shouldn't have a license. She's obviously ignorant to the fact that if the patient is a minor, and the parent won't let her take prescribed medicine or come back to see him, that doctor can't barge into the home and hold them at gunpoint to make the kid take her pills. Yet, Dr. Brennan seems to forget this little tidbit. She's too busy bad-mouthing everyone.
When her mother falls in love, Temp's first reaction is to freak out and ask if her mother is taking her pills. Yes, that would be my first reaction too. Because anyone over 50 can't possibly fall in love. She must be having a mental breakdown of some sort.
It seems that Temp is obsessed over ''pills" in this book.
I just don't understand what happened to this author, and why her character is so unlikable in this story. But, almost everything she did rubbed me the wrong way.
As for the story itself, the plot kept stumbling over itself. It seemed she was just trying to fill up the pages with useless scenes and dialog on many occasions. Yes, there are some twists to the story, but overall, it wasn't satisfying.
Will I read the next book in the series if there is one? Certainly. I've always enjoyed the series before this particular novel. And, unfortunately, it seems that when an author writes a series there is always that *one* book that doesn't measure up. It's the one you'll skip over if you ever decide to reread the series at a later date. I'm hopeful this was just that *one* book, and Kathy Reichs will be back on track next time.
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