And I have read my fair share of books.
One of my favorite things is the tick, tick, tick, tick, tick that is a reocouuring theme (refering to clocks). As I have stated, the book stats with Dr. Brennan in what she thinks is a very small tomb (later she finds that is is slightly larger then she first found it to be, but there is something/one sharing the space with her) Reichs is the absolute queen of cliff hangers. the last sentence in the chapter is always the type of steryotypical last line, but unlike many other cliff hanger style chapters, the "OMG" moment is in the middle of the next chapter. However, one cliff hanger is very confusing. It says that she has found something that is sharing her enclosure. Then the next chapter starts with her talking about cadaver dogs. It was just plain odd, it made me think that she was sharing her tomb with a dead cadaver dog (ohhh the irony!).
One thing I love about Kathy Reichs' books isin't the writing. Its the cover art. It is so very grabbing. They always have something rather interesting. (See the pictures below) The book's cover is of a floater (a bond found in a lake, it has a very interesting decomp pattern). In the begenning, they are talking about Rose Jurmain's murder. they are in Chichago, where Temperance spent her first few years of her childhood, before her day and baby brother died. The assistant patholigist inspecting the death of Rose is infact the childhood friend of Temperance's. (They say that he looks like some guy from like The Brady Bunch or some show I've never watched) Jurmain was not a floater, and therefore is not the person on the cover. (Also, the hand, if it was real, has the structure of a male's hand.) This book in the series, like Bones to Ashes, Temperance is paired with Lieutenant-Decetive Andrew Ryan of the Securite de Quebec, (excuse my lack of accents) as Jurmain's death was tenchachly on Canadian turf. 206 Bones takes place around the end of December and by then there is snow in the windy city. On Ryan's and Brennan's way to O'Hare, they get a handy-dandy call from the airline, reporting that their flight has been canceld until further notice. Temeerance's ex-husband, Pete, has family in Chichago and they ask them if they can stay at their house for the night. Amist the Latvian cooking, a family friend asks Temperance if they have found any remains that match the discription of her step-son, who they call "Lassie". The next day, Tempe has nothing else to do at works and requests to inspect some of the unidentified remains that could match Lassie. Because this is a book, of course, Temperance finds a set that is deemed his. The remains had shown up at a lake near a quary, and he was a floater, like the one on the front cover.
At the end of each of Reichs' last three books, she has an interview or such, and in this book, she has a rant on faulty anthropological identification. I find that it was extremly disturbing. If I was to die in a way that required anthroplogical identification, I definitly would not like to be misidentified. Its like: okay, I'm dead, now yayyy someone identified me as a male negroid (I am a female caucasoid). I hope that no one who that would make that type of error would be allowed in the profession.
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