Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs

This is the fifth book in the Temperance Brennan series. When I was at the library they didn't have the forth book in at the time. This book didn't have the long and wooden information spiels that Deadly Decisions had.

Brennan was feeling very grumpy in this book towards the somewhat love interest. It was kind of funny. I was very happy with how the book ended. This book and Deadly Decisions have been very different in what she was investigating. That made it seem not the same old same old murder investigation. I think Deja Dead has been the best book in the series (from getting me crazy tense reading it) so far in what I have read. But that doesn't mean I'm not going to continue on. Now that I have found this author I am planning on reading all the other books by Kathy Reichs that I have missed.

Deadly Decisions by Kathy Reichs

This was the third book in the Temperance Brennan series. Still liked it but I thought passages in the book where Reichs was trying to explain something technical came across wooden and text book like reading. Other than that I am still having fun reading the series. Still no pictures. Nothing exciting to see.

Nine-year-old Emily Anne Toussaint is fatally shot on a Montreal street. A North Carolina teenager disappears from her home, and parts of her skeleton are found hundreds of miles away. The shocking deaths propel forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan from north to south, and deep into a shattering investigation inside the bizarre culture of outlaw motorcycle gangs-where one misstep could bring disaster for herself or someone she loves.

Death Du Jour by Kathy Reichs

I guess you could say that these last few books are a far cry from all the Regency Romance books I had been reading. I tend to go in groups of genre's and get stuck in one for a while. I'm very tired of the old romances for the moment.

The library provided this book as well. I devoured the first Tempe Brennan book and tore into this one. I didn't have the 'real' bad person in charge of the cult figured out for this book. Though maybe that was just me as sometimes I am slow in getting the 'who done it' person. I was very happy with this book. Happy enough that I went to the library and got two more books in this series to read.

Still no front cover picture as there really isn't anything to show.

In the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, Tempe Brennan is digging for a corpse buried more than a century ago. But it's a chain of contemporary deaths and disappearances that has seized her attention-and she alone is ideally placed to make a chilling connection among the seemingly unrelated events. At the crime scene, at the morgue, and in the lab, Tempe probes a mystery that sweeps from a deadly Quebec fire to startling discoveries in the Carolina's, and culminates in Montreal with a terrifying showdown-a nerve-shattering test of her affinities for both science and survival.

Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs

This book is from the library. I had a lot of fun reading it. Which is why I am having to read a lot more in this series as you will see coming up. I won't post a picture of the book cover as it is nothing special.

I love the television show BONES and have watched the first and second season. I am waiting for the third season to come out on DVD. I didn't realize that the television show was very loosely inspired by the books. I just happened to be browsing the library shelves and came upon this book whose main heroine is Temperance Brennan. My eyes about bugged out. Other than the name being the same in the show and the book the two are very different. Which makes me very happy so I can enjoy both.

When reading this book there were a couple of sections where I about went crazy reading as there was so much tension. I wanted to put the book down or skip ahead. For me that was some major long tension. I don't think most books succeed in making the mood so edge of the seat gripping.

In the year since Tempe left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work had often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. But when an unidentified female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in garbage bags, Tempe detects an alarming pattern within the grisly handiwork-and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer in the city's winding streets. With little help from the police, Tempe calls on her expertise, honed in the isolated intensity of the autopsy suite. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her-her best friend and her own daughter-in mortal danger...

The Paladin by C.J. Cherryh

My Dad is big into Sci Fi and kept going on about how he loved this book. He was sure I needed to read it and brought it out. While this book is not Sci Fi (which he thought it was at first) it is fantasy. Though very tame in that. Mostly it just reads like a normal fiction book. While I was reading this book I had conflicting notions. It was eye rolling sometimes and a little romancish but other times it was very interesting and fun to read. What it really reminded me of was the book The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley. I would pick that book over this one any day. All in all I did have a fun time reading the book and raced through it. Though I did have to raise my eyebrows in surprise. While my Dad did recommend this book to me, it did have some sex in it. I wasn't expecting that.

I will see about posting a picture later. I gave the book back to my Dad before I remembered to take a picture of the cover art.

Once the bravest master of the sword his kingdom had ever known, the warrior known as Saukendar is now a mountain hermit. Betrayed by the Emperor he once protected, Saukendar has left the way of the sword behind him forever-along with everything else he has ever known.

Or so he thinks. For when a headstrong peasant girl burning to avenge her murdered family demands that he train her, Saukendar is faced with a momentous choice. He can send Taizu away, never to see her again...

...or he can join her and destroy the tyrant who has nearly destroyed them both!