Publisher: Arrow Books
Format: Paperback
Synopsis: During one
of the hottest summers on record, Dr Temperance Brennan is haunted by a string
of horrifying events. First, the bones of a newborn baby are discovered in a wood stove. The mother
is nowhere to be found. Next, a plane flies into a rock face. The dead pilot and passenger are burned
beyond recognition, and covered in an unknown substance. And then a store of bones is found in a remote corner of the county. What has
happened, and who will be the next victim? The answers lie hidden deep within
the bones - but Tempe must find them in time to stop further disaster.
Bare Bones gets off to a sort of promising start and even
answers the question of who she went on holiday with (hint: I’m happy) but
personally for me it starts to go downhill, in the nicest possible way (because
I honestly don’t think it’s a bad book I did enjoy it, and I still gave it 4
stars on goodreads) I think this is the worst Brennan book so far. So this time Brennan is at home, she never went on holiday, work got in the way. She has just discovered that the bones in the stove are as feared from a newborn baby, she’s working alongside a local cop to try and find the mother. And Ryan is coming down to stay with her. Oh and she discovers human remains at a BBQ – or Boyd does. Turns out most of the bones are actually bear bones. And she stumbles nicely into a hunting, animal parts smuggling operation.
It’s not the main crime or investigation in Bare Bones that
made it a less enjoyable read although it wasn’t the most thrilling. No it was
Brennan herself that made this not so fun to read. This is a long running
series, you expect a bit of character progression, and we’ve had that, she’s
loosened up a little on the prospect of dating etc. but you would think that
after 5 books she would have made a connection between running off on her own
without telling anyone and her being in life threatening danger… but it seems
that she hasn’t learnt any such lesson, and it annoys me as I’m sure I have
gone over before… as I feel like I might have mentioned this in the last 3
reviews, if not then I should have! And I think if I’m honest my view on this
entire book story, plot, characters and all is tainted by my utter exasperation
and weariness over her yet again running into a clearly dangerous situation
without telling anyone. Or maybe it’s just because she has a complete disregard
for her own safety in general; she receives
threats from someone in the form of photos of her and Katy taken through a
scope of a rifle and a warning telling her to back off (she doesn’t know what
as she is working more than one case). These photos rightly scare her and they
also worry Ryan, yet despite this she still runs off into danger on her own.
It was quite nice to see Ryan making an appearance while off
duty, and to see Brennan being nice to him as well, it’s all very civil, almost
normal. Proof that she can change and learn stuff. It’s a nice reward after so
many books of them irrationally making it difficult (mostly Brennan).
So in summary, it wasn’t bad the case was actually okay, it’s
just the damsel in distress thing is running thin - I will of course continue reading the series
but I hope she learns something sharpish.
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