Break No Bones

71. Break No Bones - Kathy Reichs

I'd sworn off Kathy Reichs after reading her first book, Deja Dead - it was just too damn scary knowing that she based it on real stuff.

At some point in the past couple months, however, I recanted and read Bare Bones, and was thankful I'd not listened too hard to my "no, you'll be scared" voice. Now that I've read Break No Bones, I'm on a Kathy Reichs bandwagon, and hope to get through the other 8 books in the Temperance Brennan series before year's end.

I really enjoy the technical forensic jargon, and the whole idea of forensic anthropology. I also enjoy the character of Brennan, more so as she's written and less as she's portrayed on the TV show Bones. The written Brennan is no 'squint', but is instead a warm and driven woman with amazing empathy for the dead. She's smart, funny and savvy, solving crimes and somehow managing not to get killed by the psycho killer at novel's end.

The fact that Reichs' books have some basis in fact makes them that much more engrossing, and adds a certain level of enjoyment to the capture of the bad guy . It also makes this reader thankful that people like Reichs are so good at what they do.