Hello, beautiful people! Welcome to a new review! For this review, I get into my continuation in the Temperance Brennan series, diving into number 6, Bare Bones.
This review is going to be a bit different from the rest, mostly because I can’t write a normal review for this one. I rarely ever don’t finish a book I have started, but man, if I wasn’t very close to tossing in the towel with this one. I really don’t recall a lot of key points to the mystery, mostly because this book confused me like crazy, and I don’t mean this to be as harsh as it sounds, but it wasn’t a memorable one.
I am not sure what’s up with this series and its desire to have 100 billion things going on at once, but it’s becoming a bit of a challenge for me. Bare Bones follows Temperance in North Carolina as she plans to go on vacation with Detective Andrew Ryan. The plans get tossed to the side when the remains of a baby are found in a wood stove. Then she is called to the site of a small plane crash. Then she is having lunch with her daughter and her new boyfriend, and her dog digs up human remains on this farm. I genuinely cannot remember if and how all of these things get connected in the end, but I really can’t be bothered to care. Like, how is anyone supposed to keep all of that straight in their head? If I remember correctly, I don’t think it was all connected, but if that’s the case, why are we doing all of this? Look, I really want to like this series, but if we can’t just tell one mystery a story, have only Temperance and Ryan involved (because they are the only ones who make sense not her family), and just keep it at that, I really don’t understand how this series made it for this long! I really don’t want that to come off as rude, but I genuinely enjoy the mysteries and the plots, but they are all getting muddied out by all this silly extra stuff that is going on in these books.
I am not giving up just yet on this series, but so far, none of the books (in my humble opinion) from books 1-6 are really all that great. Not all are terrible, but none yet I have been like “yeah that’s a really good one”. I think it’s just frustrating because I see the potential with this series, but I just don’t feel like these interesting plots are being told in a way that keeps the reader pulled in. The relationship between her and Ryan is not enough to keep the reader interested.
Overall, I gave Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs a 5/10 rating. I’ll be sure to let ya’ll know when it’s a good place to start this series when I find it!
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