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by Kathy Reichs (Author) "AS THE TUNE PLAYED INSIDE MY HEAD, GUNFIRE EXPLODED IN the cramped underground space around me ..." (more)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gruesome and Page-Turning, Oct 17 2007
By N. Manning (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Monday Mourning: A Tempe Brennan Novel (Mass Market Paperback)
This seventh entry in the Temperance Brennan series is just as good as expected. I won't give anything away, but this case quite made my heart pound as it somewhat resembled a true case which happened very close to where I live and that very same case was even mentioned in the text! Truly gruesome and page-turning, especially the last 50 pages, just as I expect when I read Kathy Reichs.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Please finish writing BEFORE sending book to printer, Oct 21 2004
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This review is from: Monday Mourning: A Novel (Hardcover)
I quite liked Kathy Reichs' other books--the plots are usually nicely complex, and she is absolutely at her best when she has Tempe unravel the mysteries using forensic anthropology. This time, things have really gone downhill:

(1) The characterization is just silly--the mysterious goings-on of Andrew Ryan puzzle, anger and hurt Tempe, but this highly intelligent woman doesn't simply ASK him what's going on? Are we supposed to believe that suddenly she has the self-confidence and/or petulance of an infatuated early teenager? And someone of her intelligence is supposed to go charging ALONE, of her own volition, into...well, you can read this part for yourself. But I warn you, it's utterly implausible.

(2) We know that short sentence fragments and lots of brief dialogue can quicken the pace of a story, but Reichs WAY overuses this device--it goes on for pages and pages, numerous times in the book. The result looks as though she published her notes for the novel instead of finishing the novel itself.

(3) About the use of French for "local colour": I'm a bilingual anglophone originally from Montreal, and I was actually offended at the number of misspellings and syntactical errors that were not proofread out. Gille? Contra? Did someone say Reichs is fluent in French? Not on your life. If you're going to sprinkle the book with French phrases, PLEASE do it right--at the very least, get a proofreader to help you.

I would like to think that it's deadline pressure from the publisher, rather than Reichs herself, that is responsible for this piece of sloppy workmanship. I MUCH prefer Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta books these days--fascinating forensic medicine and FAR better and more subtle characterization, dialogue, and plotting. I'm eagerly awaiting the next Kathy Reichs book and hoping it will be done with more time, effort and attention to detail--like her other books.

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars No forgiveness..., Oct 18 2004
By Marc (Montréal, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Monday Mourning: A Novel (Hardcover)
I am from Montréal. I've read all Ms. Reichs' books in English and enjoyed most of them for plots, characters, etc... except for one thing that I now find VERY anoying:

By placing the action of her books in Montréal, which is a French-speaking city with specific French characteristics, one would expect the author to be careful to the the use of numerous French expressions and the spelling of existing places you find in Montréal... and that you also find in her books.

Unfortunately, that part of her work is so neglected I could not enjoy that latest book. So many spelling mistakes, French idioms that don't exist, unrealistic phrasing of dialogues in French.

I am somewhat deceived by Ms Reichs' attitude, especially since reviews of her previous books by local newspapers specifically mentionned that. There's also the fact that the author spends time in Montréal for her work as an anthropologist. She should know the city, the language, or at least have the decency of having her work double-checked by local editors or writers... who are also her readers.

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