Books on forensic anthropology pique my interest. Thank you Jennifer for recommending this series! This is very good, I borrowed Déjà Dead from Hoopla and it's an abridged version, 4h 30m. I get to know the characters and the mystery moves at rapid pace (obviously). Really enjoyed it, even the French which I don't understand. I'm excited with Quebec, Canada setting. I'll be reading more from Kathy Reichs.

3 stars

So after watching the show and loving it and kinda missing it since it finished, I decided to pick up the book. Sadly the only thing the series and the book have in common is the name and profession of the female protagonist. Nothing else. Not even the plot. And the plot of this one could have been adapted for the screen in my opinion.. For me the tv series was better. But if I had read this when it came out (in the 90s) I would have enjoyed it more.

SOOOOO disappointed that this doesn't have the same exact characters like the show. Or like the show in general.Deja Dead is the first book of the Temperance Brennan series. Now, I'm slightly obsessed with the show, Bones. Which is where you meet the character Temperance Brennan.. so of course, I had some expectations for the first book. Sadly, it's not set in D.C. and her people are not in it either. Well.. yet.Temperance is an okay kind of character - just like she is in the first episode of t...

This was my first exposure to Kathy Reichs, and I must say, I'm impressed! As a fan of the TV show Bones, I found this debut novel of Dr. Brennan much more enjoyable than the TV character. The book had plenty of twists and turns while keeping a quick pace. The only turn off for me was the French names and locations...I found it difficult to distinguish between the characters and locations, but that is understandable due to the book taking place in Montreal. I look forward to continuing the story...

Separate the tv show and this book. You will be very disappointed if you come in thinking it'll be like the tv show. The characters, setting, and story are drastically different. However, I think this book is a lot better than the show and I liked the first seasons of Bones. The lead character is more believable. She has faults like any normal human being and doesn't always make the smart choices. She isn't a superhero on crack (she actually gets pretty banged up). The character seems more human...

"i was killed by curiosity like a finely tuned cat."that was not, actually, one of the many similes this book is drowning in, but it may as well have been. some real examples:"In my mind’s eye I could see her standing at a pay phone, scanning her surroundings, her eyes never resting, broadcasting fear like Radio Free Europe."or"She was thin as soup in a homeless shelter"or"For the third time in as many days I saw daybreak, an event I embrace as eagerly as Joe Montana welcomes an all-out blitz."i...

This book is exactly as good as you'd expect it to be when you buy it for 7 Euros at the airport out of desperation when you have nothing else to read and you need something to occupy your time on a 9 hour flight from Europe to the US. Which is to say, it was awful.Where to even start? How about with some of the terrible similes that appear every two pages or so (sometimes even more frequently)? "I'm as familiar with the ebb and flow of Gabby's moods as I was with my own menstrual cycles." "The ...

Christ, was it a struggle to get through this book. When I read up on her books on Amazon it said "Better than Patricia Cornwell!!" so I thought DAMN this MUST be good, seeing as I loved many of PC's earlier novels. It sucked. Not only did it suck... but it sucked hardcore. I was halfway through the book and still couldn't keep track of who half of the characters were. I dreaded anytime a conversation ended because that meant she was about to start one of her endlessly descriptive blurbs.Don't g...

Honestly, I didn't like this book much during the first several chapters. It's obvious she was a novice writer and her over-use of metaphors drove me crazy! Also, not being a French speaker, all the French (slightly excessive in my opinion) annoyed me a bit.I am a fan of the tv show 'Bones', which is based on this series of books, so I was excited to start. There are some major differences between the tv and the book versions of the main character, which was a transition for me, but I ended up l...

eh, it was okay. I am a huge fan of the TV series Bones, which is loosely based off Kathy Reichs' series, of which this is the first book. However, I realized exactly how LOOSELY BASED the series is after reading this book. what I love about the show is the romantic tension and sparkling humor and wit. these books are so much dryer and less fun. Even the lead character is less appealing--instead of being a gorgeous unattached doctor, she's an older alcoholic doctor, with a messy divorce and a te...