Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs

I didn't like this book as well. I'm not sure why either. Maybe I was just in an off mood. Mostly Cross Bones just didn't keep my attention going. So I struggled through it to the very end. And then I wished that it wasn't the last in the series that the library had. I did notice that one more book by Kathy Reichs came out this August. Maybe I will have to mosey over to a store and pick it up. Hopefully it will be more interesting. But seeing as I have some big projects coming up it may be a while before I can while away the days with books.

Cross Bones brings Temperance Brennan to Israel to investigate some bones that might be Jesus Christ's.

Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs

I went to the library and someone had finally turned in the last two books I was missing. It was kind of funny as I was reading Fatal Voyage jumping back into the story line. Inspector Ryan and Brennan hadn't officially became an item yet even though they were seeing each other. So when Brennan got back with her Husband for a night, I was shocked because I had been rooting for Inspector Ryan. That combined with Ryan's partner getting killed. All these later books I have been reading it always mentions Ryan working alone after his partner died. I forgot that his partner was still alive in the first couple of books in the series.

I really liked this book as it was somewhat different. Yes Brennan still almost gets whacked in the end. But most of the book is Brennan trying to figure out what is going on as she keeps getting stonewalled in her job and her career almost goes up in smoke. I felt very frustrated all through this book for Brennan. It was almost like she was doing detective work instead of bone detective work.

So for my very own made up back blurb again....Temperance goes to help out with a plane crash. While trying to identify the mangled remains of 88 people, she comes upon a foot that doesn't go with the crash. Everyone one is trying to figure out why the plane came down and then all of a sudden Temperance is kicked out of her job. She is barred from other places and people aren't being helpful. A very weird story comes out in the end.

Bones To Ashes by Kathy Reichs

So what's going on with the relationship line. My eyes about bugged out with what happened!!!! Now I can hardly wait until the next book comes out in the series. I want to know what happens. ARGGGGG! (That is me pulling out my hair.)

Bones is trying to find out what happened to a childhood friend. Her friend Detective Ryan is trying to uncover who has been killing teenagers in cold cases. This story does touch on child pornography which left a distaste in my mouth. This is another one of Reichs' books which touches on a darker subject.

Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs

I think that it is a very bad thing to be a friend of Temperance Brennan. You either die or you get injured. Tempe herself is no exception. She is always getting roughed up. I have to say that I really liked this book. While the general formula stays the same there were some different happenings going on. Confusion on who did the murders, personal life drama, and her friend who dies from cancer.

Again I will summarize so I don't have to write the whole inside flap cover. Break No Bones starts out with Temperance finding a new body in old burial grounds. From there bodies keep getting found and connections between them all are not clear. Meanwhile Temperance, her ex-husband, and her new boyfriend are all sharing the same house.

Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs

I got to the library finally! So now I have three more of these books to read. I found the contents of this book a little more disturbing. Thankfully it didn't get too grizzly into the matter. Though enough to leave a unpleasant taste in your mouth. Sad that things like that really do happen in life. But other than that I did like the book.

I guess I will summarize the book as I don't want to write the whole inside cover flap. Brennan finds three bodies under a pizza parlor. Trying to figure out what happened to the bodies leads to a whole boat load of nasty. Meanwhile her relationship with Detective Andrew Ryan gets rocky when he starts acting mysterious.

The Nomad Harp by Elizabeth Neff Walker

Yes I know, another Regency Romance. Here is the thing though. I went to the library to get some more books in the Temperance Brennan series, but I got there too late. Then I couldn't sleep one night and every other book in the house I had already read. I was so bored. Thankfully I realized that I did have this one book unread that I had forgotten about. In comes The Nomad Harp. Yes!

And guess what? It wasn't bad either. So I spent a happy sleepless night reading away. Except now I have nothing to read and still haven't made it back to the library. Thus I am typing the book review tonight.

Proud, independent, talented, Glenna is about to marry Philip, Viscount Pontley-until a foolish quarrel estranges them.

But Glenna cannot forget him, and when fate throws them together again they struggle to overcome the memory of past bitterness.

Amid the ruins of their former passion, love flames anew. But it may be too late-Philip has become engaged to another. Have they rediscovered love only to lose it again?

Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs

Temperance Brennan gets together with her love interest in this book. Yeah! Bare Bones follows the formula of Kathy Reichs other books. Mystery, sleuthing, and then Brennan almost getting whacked in the end. I'm happy, what can I say. I am off to the library today to get some more in the series. Can you say obsessive compulsive? That would be me.

"Down time" is not a phrase in Tempe Brennan's vocabulary. A string of disturbing cases has put her vacation plans on hold; instead, she heads to the lab to analyze charred remains from a suspicious fire, and a mysterious black residue from a small plane crash. But most troubling of them all are the bones...Tempe's daughter's new boyfriend invites them to a picnic-a pig picken'-in North Carolina's countryside, where a cache of bones turns up. But are they animal or human? X-rays and DNA may link the crimes, but they can't reveal who is closing in on Tempe and her daughter-and how far they will go to keep her from discovering the truth.