Tauna's Reviews > Bones Are Forever

As a long time Bones watcher but a first time Kathy Reichs reader, I tried to keep my expectations in check for this book. I knew the TV series is very loosely based on these books, but I had hoped at least a few of the characters from the series would be found in this book, but that didn't happen. Even the main character Temperance Brennan felt like a completely different and foreign character.

Despite all that, I tried to read this book as its own thing separate from the TV show. And I didn't like it. The premise was promising enough, four dead babies found, all seemingly from the same mother who is now MIA. However, this book was less medically focused and more of a lame procedural. The plot itself leaped all over the place, from dead babies to hookers and drug wars to Canadian aboriginal racism to gold and diamond mining. What the cuss was that? The writing was also pretty unbearable. For pages and pages Reichs went on describing the history of diamond mining in Canada, which I had to skip over. There were dozens of incidences where Tempe, trying to work through problems, would talk about her id or gray matter or nerve bundles sending up ideas: stupid phrases that continually came up over and over again.

Basically: bad writing, convoluted and disjointed plot, no good characters, and not enough medical aspects to be interesting.