Bones to Ashes: A Novel (Temperance Brennan Novels) | Kathy Reichs

Bones to Ashes: A Novel (Temperance Brennan Novels) | Kathy Reichs | Read It In One Night

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	Bones to Ashes: A Novel (Temperance Brennan Novels) Kathy Reichs Pocket Star, 2008 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 88 reviews view larger image
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This story was one of Kathy Reich's best! I was glued to the pages and couldn't put the book down until I got to the last page. I was drawn into the story from the beginning, having had a few childhood friendships fade, and was totally enthralled with the twists and turns that followed. The ending was a great surprise, it was worth staying up until 3AM to get to it!

Started a bit slow, but finished quite strong...

I've made no bones (no pun intended) that Kathy Reichs has permanently replaced Cornwell as my writer-of-choice when it comes to forensic anthropology novels. Her latest, Bones To Ashes, continues to entertain me, although this one seemed to be a bit slow coming out of the blocks. What I thought was going to be a "time-out" for a character development story picked up at the end and delivered a pretty tight finish.

Temperance Brennan is drawn into a case of skeletal identification that seemingly is a bit too close to home for her. She had a childhood friend named Evangeline who disappeared one year with no explanation as to what happened. Tempe's attempts to discover her whereabouts were met with silence and warnings to just let her go. Thirty years have passed, but Tempe hasn't forgotten her. Tempe's Montreal cop boyfriend is investigating a number of cold cases where either a young girl went missing and was never found, or they found a skeleton that was never identified. The timeframes and locations are such that Tempe can't help wondering if perhaps the skeleton on her table is her missing friend. The odds are one in a million, but they start getting narrower once Tempe and Ryan start digging into the past. Even though everyone's claiming the past is over and forgotten, some people are a bit too intent on keeping Tempe and Ryan from finding that out for themselves. And if those people are involved in any way with Evangeline's disappearance, that could mean that she ended her life in a very unpleasant and sordid fashion...

The start of the novel looked like it was going to be a diversion into Brennan's childhood as well as what I call a character development installment. Those are the books in a series that seem to lack some of the action that the author is known for, but that serve to add some additional background and color to the characters. It wasn't until Ryan's cold case efforts started intersecting with Brennan's work that the action angle started to pick up. The bad guys in the plot are truly nasty characters, but there are some interesting twists at the end that force you to re-examine your impressions. We're still not talking boy scouts, but there's some humanity there after all.

Bones to Ashes isn't the absolute best book in the series, but it's still a solid read. And any slowness at the start is more than made up for at the end...

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This latest offering in Kathy Reich's series on forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan was much anticipated by her many fans, including me, so it is no surprise that there were very high expectations - particularly after the latest novel finished with such an open ending regarding Tempe's personal life.
Unfortunately,the new novel did not quite live up to its predecessors' high standards. This is the first time I was not compelled to devour the novel within the space of one weekend - instead, I was frequently tempted to put it down and pick it up later. Somehow, the usual recipe of thrill, suspense and that extra ingredient of emotional spices did not quite add up, leaving me a wee bit disappointed. Still, it was an enjoyable read, albeit not comparable to Reich's previous works, such as Death Du Jour.I am waiting for the next one to satisfy my thirst for a really good thriller!

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