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Summary: Best yet!
Review: Reichs just keeps getting better and better. I was not sure if I qould like it, because frankly, I am not very interested, sad though it is, in the desparisodos. But really got hooked. Like the new lovw interest. I hope she won't pull a Cornwell on us like that abomination "Isle of Dogs" or Grisham with "A Painted House". When we like a genre, a recuring series we don't want a change. Keep 'em comintg, Kathy!!
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Summary: Patricia WHO?
Review: I vow never again to read Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series. Kathy Reichs weaves a first-rate forensic story - without bashing the reader over the head with Cornwellian agenda. Prior reviews have set the scenario. "Grave Secrets" finds Forensic Anthropologist Tempe Brennan in Guatemala helping unearth and identify remains of "the Disappeared" victims of Guatemala's Civil War (1962-1996.) She soon becomes involved in Mayan murders, adolescent angst, and inter-Americas intrigue. I learned more about septic tanks than I ever really wanted to know (and we have one!) But I didn't have a problem swimming through plot twist and turns. There is a little too much romance/Scarlet O'Hara-at-the picnic "whatever beau shall I chose?" hand-wringing for my tastes. I'd give it 4 ½ stars, if we were allowed ½ s.
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Summary: grisly politics, fine forensic anthropology
Review: In her fifth outing, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who ordinarily divides her professional time between Montreal and North Carolina, is in Guatemala excavating a 1982 massacre site. As the book opens, two of her co-workers have been ambushed; one is dead, the other is in a coma. Authorities are calling it a robbery but Tempe knows their work is dangerous - many of those responsible for "disappeareds" are still in power. Then Tempe's work is interrupted by a request to recover a girl's decomposed body found in a seedy motel septic tank. Four teenage girls - one of them the Canadian ambassador's daughter - are missing and Detective Bartolomé Galiano fears a serial killer. The plot lines cross and re-cross. Tempe's new investigation is disrupted by a sinister official who confiscates the body. Parental secrets and the vagaries of teenage behavior complicate matters and the demands of the massacre site are heavy. Meanwhile Tempe's conflicted relationship with Montreal detective Andrew Ryan takes another hit from her growing attraction to Galiano. Intricate, finely detailed scenes of forensic examination (particularly the septic tank recovery and study of skeleton detail) fuel the story, counterbalancing Tempe's sometimes mystifying penchant for thin-skinned irritability. The plot is almost confusingly complex, but Reichs (herself a forensic anthropologist) wraps it up nicely leaving a little teaser for her next book.
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Summary: Slow, but steady
Review: I really did enjoy Grave Secrets and it did keep me reading as I read in a weekend, however I agree that was not really a thriller. The action occurred at a sedate pace and I often wondered why Tempe kept up with the case once her part of the investigation was completed. The end was too fast and didn't connect all the dots that were left behind. The Guatemalan aspect of the book was very interesting as being an Australian we don't hear much news from South America.
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Summary: A Disappointment
Review: This novel was a disappointment.
The story starts out well but the ending is just ridiculous.
Also too farfetched is the plot device that brings Ryan into the story again.
All in all I would have to say that this book is by far the weakest of the series.
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Summary: good book, but not her best.
Review: I've enjoyed Dr. Reichs previous works more. Deja Dead is my favorite. I still can't believe that one hasn't turned into a movie. the book ends too quickly, you really don't have time to try and figure out who the bad guy is. and it's simply not as much of a "thriller" as i'd hoped. but still, it's an interesting book and well worth the $15.00.
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Summary: Tempe Brennan investigates horrors in Guatemala.
Review: Kathy Reichs's latest novel, "Grave Secrets," has Tempe Brennan visiting Guatemala to help the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation. Tempe is a highly skilled forensic anthropologist (like the author herself) who is helping to uncover the remains from a massacre that occurred twenty years ago in a village called Chupan Ya. At that time, Guatemalan soldiers raped and murdered the defenseless women and children who lived there. No records of the massacre were kept and the perpetrators were never brought to justice. Tempe and the rest of the team want to prove that the massacre occurred and they are also attempting to identify any remains that they find. This is by far the strongest and most poignant part of "Grave Secrets." Tempe's work in Guatemala is heartbreaking, and in light of the massacres that have occurred in so many places, all too realistic. Suddenly, two members of Tempe's team are ambushed and shot, for unknown reasons. In addition, Tempe is asked to help investigators on another case in Guatemala. It seems that four privileged young women have mysteriously vanished. One set of remains is found in a septic tank, and Tempe's expertise is called upon to dig out the remains and identify them. She runs into hostility and anger from a Guatemalan District Attorney, who is angry at her "interference." Reichs writes with tremendous authority about every aspect of forensic anthropology and the first half of the book is fascinating and gripping. The second half of the book is weaker for several reasons. Reichs cooks up a budding romance between Tempe and a Guatemalan Special Investigator named Galiano. Galiano happens to know Andrew Ryan, Tempe's love interest in Montreal, where she works part time. Which man will win Tempe's heart? This aspect of the book is cutesy and unsatisfying. Tempe acts more like a schoolgirl than a grown woman when she is around these two men. Worse, however, is the ending of the book. After a series of red herrings, the truth is revealed about the missing girls and the present day violence in Guatemala. The solution to the mystery is completely out of left field and extremely far-fetched. This is a shame, since Tempe is a great character, compassionate as well as strong and self-confident (except when she is around attractive men). I cannot wholeheartedly recommend "Grave Secrets," since the beginning of the novel is so much stronger than its conclusion.
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Summary: A good read
Review: I stumbled on Kathy Reichs' Fatal Voyage a few months back and was so impressed I read all of her previous works. Grave Secrets is not her best but it is still very good. Although it bothers me that Tempe and Ryan are still in limbo.
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Summary: Write a decent review
Review: I am still in the middle of reading this book and it's great so far. I just wish reviewers would stick with what they did or did not like about the book instead of rewriting the book in their review.
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Summary: GRAVE SECRETS
Review: ALTHUGH I ENJOYED THIS BOOK I DON'T THINK IT WAS THE BEST THE AUTHOR HAS WROTE. FOR ME THE STORY JUMPED AROUND TOO MUCH AND WAS VERY CONFUSING.
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