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Break No Bones: A Novel (Temperance Brennan Novels)

To some, the dead are a commodity. For Tempe Brennan, they hold the key to cracking a horrific crime ring.

Among the ancient remains in a Native American burial ground, Tempe discovers a fresh skeleton -- and what began as an ordinary teaching stint at an archeology field school in Charleston, South Carolina, fast becomes a heated investigationinto an alarming pattern of homicides. The clues hidden in the bones lead to a street clinic where a monstrous discovery awaits, and Tempe -- whose personal life is in upheaval, with two men competing for her -- can't afford any distractions as she pieces together a shattering and terrifying puzzle.


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780743453035
ISBN: 0743453034
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2007-08-21
Publisher: Pocket
Studio: Pocket


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: BREAK NO BONES BY KATHY REICHS
Comment: I love her books. I find them very informative as well as I really like her characters. I watch Bones on TV. This book had more about her Canadian detective lover. Her relationship with her ex-husband is a hoot.

Customer Rating:
Summary: First and last Tempe
Comment: This is my first Kathy Reichs novel. I have a problem with 1st person narratives. One has to love the narrator to put up with her for hundreds of pages. Tempe is fine but not for hundreds of pages, getting into all the petty details that drive me up a wall when reading a mystery. With 3rd person we can get a break from the internalizations! We can put the narrator on hold and enjoy the story. (I have the same problem with the ABC mystery writer, too.) In both cases, Reichs and ABC writer, the narrator is in my space, too much, her face right in front of me, nagging! I find myself skipping pages not related to the mystery, that just drag me along. Oh, well. Give me a good old fashioned 3rd person point-of-view where I can get some relief from the ego-maniacal narrator: "I...", "I...", "I...", IIIIIIII!

Customer Rating:
Summary: Tempe does Charleston
Comment: 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.


Customer Rating:
Summary: I didn't bother to finish this one!
Comment: 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.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Temperance Brennan-Book vs Temperance Brennan "Bones"
Comment: 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".

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