Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1) in Vampires, Weres and Fae!

Nov 30, 2020 Belles rated it liked it

Not bad for a book published in the mid 90s and for an author’s first book. I can see why this series is still going strong today. I’m sure subsequent books are really good.

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Nov 04, 2010 Yodamom rated it really liked it · review of another edition

4.5 stars. Dark, gory, realistic, deeply disturbing and seeping with mystery and twists. Tempe takes on on a medical anthropologists journey through some very nasty and too close for comfort cases she is involved in. We live every detail with her, all the descriptions graphically described and discussed. Yes, I enjoyed it thoroughly, even if it left my with an upset stomach.
My first reading of this author. I will read her work again, but I don't think I'll rush out to get it. I need a break. ...more

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Dec 31, 2020 Tracy rated it really liked it

Shelves: actual-book, first-in-series, mystery, group-read-vwf, over-500-pages, donated, read-in-2020

So I am a huge fan of the TV show Bones, I love it, I will watch it over and over. I knew it was based on this book series but surprisingly I had never picked up the books. But you need to know, even though the show is based on this book series, the book is nothing like the TV show or rather the TV show is nothing like the books since the books came first. With that being said, if you read it as a police procedural thriller then it is a good book, just don't expect it to resemble the TV show at ...more

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Apr 05, 2014 Vannessa rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle-books, murder-thrillers, 2015-100-books-reading-challenge

I fancied something different to read and love Kathy Reichs books so thought I would start right back at the beginning of this series and read them all again. I think I got to about #13 before I was off to read other things!

In this one Tempe is kind of finding her feet, working with the police department and doesn't yet seem to have the privileges nor know the boundaries that she has in the later books. A serial killer is on the loose and he's decapitating women and chopping their bodies into b ...more

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Aug 06, 2011 Crystalclearwpg rated it liked it

Shelves: own

found the book to be ok. she (temp) was a weaker character than the one protrayed on t.v.'s bones. i will look forward to reading more but i hope the character gets a little stronger(like temp on t.v.).

the whole time i was reading the book i kept thinking of the program bones and was disappointed in places in the book that should have been writen stronger.

good read for a first book tho and plan on reading the next one

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