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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Back To Canada, 7 Jul 2004
After lazing around the American South for a couple of books, this one finds Tempe back in Montreal. The book starts well, with Tempe involved in a case almost from the first page. There follows an irritating section when she is giving evidence and has to prove her credentials as an expert witness. I suspect Reichs felt it was time to remind readers exactly what Tempe is and how she qualified to do her job: this section has no real connection with the remainder of the book.
The action is swift and smooth. Tempe's continual on/off relationship with her Canadian police officer continues, but not quite as obtrusively as in recent books.
Inevitably, our heroine gets too closely involved with her case and finds herself in personal danger. Reichs must be close to running out of plausible reasons why a forensic anthropologist keeps getting beaten/kidnapped/threatened with a violent end.
I carp. This is a good read, which moves Tempe Brennan along and provides much excitement on the way.
Recommended.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant!! Highly recommended (by me)!, 2 Nov 2007
Forget Shakespeare. Forget Joseph Conrad and that other one who wrote the Harry Potter books. If you want drama, suspense and a Canadian adventure, read this book. This thriller has the intellectual firepower to change your perspective on everything, from abortion to Iraq, from murdurers to gays.
Ok, firstly, this is a masterpiece. I have to just write that down. Secondly, this is a book about an ordinary woman (who happens to have a degree in forensic anthropology), who is confronted with a series of connected murders in Montreal. Already, the reader is intrigued because anyone can identify with the main themes. She is strong-willed, quick-witted, has an eye for hot men, and likes to eat in a nice restaurant with the latter. We are catapulted into an amazing adventure with a few French Canadian twists along the way.
How did I find this book, you may ask? At an airport? At a news-stand in a homogeneous metropolis? In a car boot sale? In a bin? No. A few days ago, a male friend of mine heard that I had contracted diphtheria so he came over to my house. He knew there was nothing to be said to console me, so he handed me the aforementioned book. I was mesmerized by the title, especially since it was a Monday at the time. When I looked up, he had disappeared in a puff of smoke and I haven't heard from him since. That was 4 months ago.
Anyway, if you want to turn your life around and get a flavour of life in North America, buy this book pronto. It certainly has changed mine: I've quit my job as an investment manager and I'm working in a home for the elderly.
Thanks for your time
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Better than a Mark Rothko painting, 7 Nov 2007
Yes, I stand by the above comment. Ok, Rothko paintings are absolutely brilliant (I mean 2 colours; it just doesn't get any better than that), but this book is more than a match for the aforesaid works of art, in terms of depth, breadth, height and creativity.
So what makes this manuscript so incredibly, em, incredible? Pretty much everything about it. It's plot is highly unpredictable, the descriptive nature of the text is superlative, and the characters are so real, you can almost touch them, smell them and feel them breathing beside you. Almost uncomfortably so. I had to have a shower each time I read sections of the book.
In short, this book is worth dying for. I would die for it. Well, maybe if it was a nice way, like being shot really quickly or crushed by a forklift. But say, if there were 25 copies being thrown down a deep ravine, I'd probably say no to going to rescue them, because I'd probably only be able to read 1/3rd of the book on the way down.
Anyway, get the book. Get it. Get it now. Good
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