Additional Review 4
Bones Of The Lost by Kathy Reichs
10 years! I started this book in 2014 and made it to about the midway mark. Then Tempe went to Afganistan and suddenly all the bones were replaced with black Hawks, IUD's and military bases. Urgh. So there it sat for a whole decade on my shelf, even moving house several times, bookmark unmoved.
Until this year when I took all the abandoned books out of my bookcase and put them between book ends on my dresser. I see them every night before I go to bed and it is motivating. I'll let you know if I ever finish "Life of the Bohemians" or "The Golden Notebook".
I started reading Kathy Reichs Bones books as a teenager in about 2000, I kept up with each new book until this one - no. 17. Back in year 9 at Norwich High School, Tempe Brennan as an adult anthropologist living in Montreal and Charlotte, NC was a world away from my life. I would never have imagined that 24 years later I would still be reading the same series and living in North Carolina just as Tempe does.
Now I can relate to Tempe so much, as an adult, a NC resident with a daughter. So really the interest of the book comes entirely from the whodunnit and the crime portion of the book. When I was a teenager, a great deal of the appeal was looking into a totally different life and world. I found the US setting fascinating as someone who had never been to North Carolina and had only visited the USA once. Tempe was an adult who lived alone and held down a prestigious position in her field. Part of me looked up to her and was excited for a future where I might live alone with my cat.
Unfortunately for me, the whodunnit isn't enough to really get me to continue reading the rest of the series. I think this might be the last for me at this stage in my life.