[.uk] Break No Bones (Temperance Brennan Novels) (ISBN 1594131805)

Temperance Brennan-Book vs Temperance Brennan "Bones":
Watched "Bones" on Fox TV. I enjoyed it so I started hunting for the first book in the series. I hate starting in the middle of series books. Once I started reading Reichs and I got over the shock that literary Brennan and TV Brennan are based on Reichs, they are still different. I missed Booth at first. But as I read on and was able to view each version as its own work I really enjoyed the books. I love the forensic stuff. Fans of forensics will enjoy this series because Brennan is not a CSI as such. She is an anthropologist first. Her personal life suffers because of the travel. Shes curious. It isnt a mystery in the end as to who commited the crimes as it is in many books. Not like, well, did he or did he not kill the victim. With Reichs she lets you know who and how she goes about proving it. I hate movies and books that leave the ending up to me. Please, I paid for the work...I want the whole aspect. Plot, beginning, middle, end and outcome. I just got the last three books to finish the series thus far. I also still enjoy "Bones".

Tempe does Charleston:
I really enjoy this series, set often in my beloved South (this one is here in the Charleston area) or in Montreal, where I have many happy memories. Reich's got a lot right about Charleston in this book (except for the bit about basements. We don't do basements in Charleston like you do in other places. something about being at or below sea level and built on landfill discourages digging deep.) But for a weekend escape read, this was great.

Pretty good and worth reading:
BREAK NO BONES is definately worth reading as it is a good mystery with good characters and lots of action. Temperance Brennan is at it again, finding bones where they shouldn't be and then becoming a player in a pretty complicated plot. Tempe deals with a county sheriff who is not a typical stereotype in that while he needs to convinced before he takes action, he does eventually act upon real facts and does seem competent in his job. Tempe also has the awkward situation of having her estranged husband and her lover together with her in one house. I believe this was supposed to be somewhat comic, but I just got the feeling that Kathy Reichs missed on this situation. Anyway, neither Pete nor Ryan was much of a hero in this one. The real saving hero turned out to be someone completely unexpected and that is why BREAK NO BONES did not get 5 stars from me. The climax just seemed too hard to believe for my taste. None the less, this book was a page turner as I have found all the Temperance Brennan novels to be so far. This isn't the best one, but it's much better than a lot of books I've read and so, I say, go ahead and give it a chance.

I didn't bother to finish this one!:
Humor is not Kathy Reichs's strong point. Try as hard as she might (and she REALLY tried!), Sue Grafton or Janet Evanovich, she is not. The sarcastic sniping she sprinkled into "Break No Bones"--especially between Ryan and the snarky, incredibly un-likeable Pete--was just plain forced. If anything, Tempe's intense seriousness was what made her fun to read. I disliked the tone of this book so much, I didn't finish it. Who did it? I didn't really care.

Another Great Story in Kathy Reichs Collection:
Once again, we are taken back to the days of yesteryear. Our heroine, Dr. Temperance Brennan (Tempe to her friends) is called on by the Charleston County Coroner (an old friend) to help her sort out a murder. Since the body is mostly bones, our girl - nicknamed Bones - is the person to call. One of only 50 forensic anthropologist license in her field, no one is more expert than Tempe. (Note: this is a parallel world to the one on TV.) While taking over a student dig summer course on a coastal island, Tempe finds sixteen indian skeletons (which have nothing at all to do with this case). From there she is called to see a body that has been mixed in with the old skeletons. This one has only been buried for a few years. When Tempe examines the skeleton, she finds that it has strange fractures on the neck (cervical) vertebrae. A second body is found hanging in the local State Forest. When Tempe examines that body it also has those strange neck fractures. In between trying to solve these murders (and some others) she also has to deal with: her estranged husband, her semi-lover from Quebec, the stolid local Sheriff, her friend the Coroner, and other assorted locals. The story follows a straight line (time-wise) with some segues and tangential stories thrown in but at all times keeps moving forward like a shark. In the end the only line not tied up is the one between Tempe and her lover-Detective from Quebec. Good Job Kathy. Zeb Kantrowitz