3.5 stars.

troppi nomi, troppe sigle e troppe coincidenze, mi aspettavo qualcosa di meglio da Tempe...

I started reading the Temperance Brennan books in the year 2000 - this is probably my favourite crime series and it's always great to pick up the next one and immerse myself once again in her world.

This particular one has us going to Hawaii (how I love travelling through the books I read!) to uncover the mystery of bones found in a lake in Canada (Quebec), which belong to a man killed in Vietnam and supposedly buried in North Carolina. It gets even more complicated . . .

Great book,as brilliant as ever. I loved the way that Kathy Reichs described Hawaii, and loved it so muc, I felt like booking a holiday to Hawaii.
Can't wait to read more.

It's been a while since I read one of these books -- in fact so long that I tried three of them for about 20 pages each before I realized that I had already read all three of them -- back in 2010 when Spot was so sick and I was escaping.
This book was an interesting story, weaving Tempe's work in Montreal with a death in North Carolina and the search for and identification of remains from Vietnam. Most of the story takes place in Hawaii which reminded me that I'd love to go back there, so all the descriptions were tempting me. I thought it was pretty well told, with a twist that I had suspected and one that I never would have guessed. I'll keep reading these mysteries.

I always really like the Tempe Brennan books and look forward to reading them. I prefer the books set in North Carolina (even though I do like Ryan). This book really had the best of all worlds. It began in Canada, had the connection to North Carolina and took the gang to Hawaii (my favorite place on earth) to solve the mystery. And I did enjoy this mystery even though it got a little convoluted at the end. I always learn a little in these novels and this time I learned about chimeras. Interesting stuff. I loved the Plato character. Loved him! I also learned about JPAC and was quite impressed with what I learned.
As an aside, I also like the TV show Bones that is loosely based on this series of books. It's enough different that I don't even see Emily Deschanel and/or David Boreanz as the characters when I read these books. I just see Tempe and Ryan.

Definitely not one of the best of the series. The science plot twist was a bit of a surprise, but the "who is this guy?" was telegraphed (for me, at least) pretty early on. I'm fairly tired of the on again, off again love thing with Ryan, but the depiction of Brennan's relationship with her young adult daughter is very accurate to this mother of a 20-year-old. Bringing in the "gangsta" angle seemed ridiculous to me, but I suppose there had to be some immediate danger somewhere to keep the publisher interested.

I still enjoy the television show Bones far more than the novels, which is unusual - but the show has more humor. I don't think I'd read novelizations based on the show, however, because a lot of the humor requires the chemistry between the actors as well as good scriptwriting. There are few authors who can translate that from screen to text.

Spider Bones was a bit more predictable than Dr Brennan novels usually are, but it was a fun read nonetheless.

Another ho hum installment of the Temperance Brennan series. At this point I'm only reading the series to tide me over until the next season of "Bones" begins.

Silly me, I keep reading these books hoping there will be some meaningful resolution of the Tempe/Ryan relationship. You would think after 13 books it would be settled...