Darla P. (djpritchett) reviewed on 1/28/2008 + 3 more book reviews

I love the show "Bones", so I figured this book would follow along the same lines and I would love it, too. I was wrong. It didn't take me long to realize that the show is only loosely based on the book. Very loosely. Temperance Brennan is still the main character, and she is still a forensic anthropologist. In the book, she has a much more advanced relationship with Detective Lieutenant Andrew Ryan, the book's version of FBI Agent Seeley Booth. And she has a child. And a sister.

Tempe's childhood friend, Evangeline, disappeared without saying goodbye early in their teens. Tempe and her sister Harry tried without success to find her family in Canada. Years later, Tempe, now living and working in Canada, is reminded of her friend as she works on a set of unidentified bones from Evangeline's home town. She and Harry track down Evangeline's younger sister, Obeline. Obeline hints that Evangeline died shortly after the last time that Tempe saw her and it looks like the bones could possibly belong to Evangeline. To further confuse the issue, evidence points to Obeline's husband being involved with the death and/or disappearance of several young girls.

Although I was disappointed that it wasn't more like the television show I love so much, I eventually got into the story and was able to separate the two in my mind but the French language used throughout the book really slowed me down, and, in my opinion, disrupted the flow of the story, forcing me to stop & think of the proper pronunciation as I was reading.

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