I am fairly sturdy gore-wise, and I occasionally wished I was not listening to it over food-preparation.Review of narration for audiobook version: Barbara Rosenblat does a good job on the French pronunciations, including accenting Brennan's French a bit, which was a nice touch. However, in this case, Brennan came across as irrational, foolhardy and aggravating.Note: not for the weak of stomach. I realize it must difficult to write a procedural mystery with a non-cop protagonist, and some allowances must be made to let the main character play detective.
Then she would angrily defend her right to be an idiot even to the policeman that did seem to be on her side. Brennan consistently and bullheadedly put herself into danger, even well after it was clear the stakes she was playing. She also provides exhaustive physical descriptions of people, even when it's irrelevant and distracting (two teenagers walking by with a boombox, for instance.)Those are minor complaints however, and pale beside the fact that Dr. Brennan's first-person voice includes excessive use of metaphor and florid portraits of her emotions.
However, it was somewhat unpleasant to read. I was engaged and wanted to hear how it ended. This book benefited from the author's specialized knowledge and had a genuinely creepy and twisty mystery plot.
Told with lacerating authenticity and passion, Déjà Dead is both poignant and terrifying as it hurtles toward its breathtaking conclusion and instantly catapults Kathy Reich into the top ranks of crime authors. As a pattern continues to emerge, Tempe calls upon all her forensic skills, including bone, tooth/dental, and bitemark analysis and x-ray microflourescence to convince the police that the cases are related and to try to stop the killer before he strikes again.
Something about the crime scene is familiar to Tempe: the stashing of the body parts the meticulous dismemberment. One look at the decomposed and decapitated corpse, stored neatly in plastic bags, tells her she'll spend the weekend in the crime lab. The remains are probably old and only of archeological interest, but Tempe must make sure they're not a case for the police. First, though, she must stop at a newly uncovered burial site in the heart of the city. Temperance Brennan, who has left a shaky marriage back home in North Carolina to take on the challenging assignment of Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec, looks forward to a relaxing weekend in beautiful Quebec City.
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