Dr. Temperance Brennan believes in justice, particularly for those who cannot speak for themselves. As the resident forensic anthropologist at Montreal’s Laboratorie de Médecine Légale, it’s her job to identify skeletal remains, giving them names and causes of death. When a set of neatly dismembered female remains is discovered stashed in plastic bags, Temperance uncovers…
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Mini-Reviews: Sexy & Sweet
Best Friend was gone for a week, which meant I spend six days not getting enough sleep, eating junk food, and reading the kind of books I call “brain candy.” They’re sugary, light, bad for you in large amounts — and it’s impossible to stop reading them. First, the sexy My history of naughty novel-reading…
Review: The Copper Sign
The year of our Lord 1161 is not a great time to be a girl — even less so a girl who wants to become a swordsmith. Forced to flee her home in rural England, our young heroine Ellenweore disguises herself as a boy and travels with a famous swordsmith to Normandy, where sons of…
Review: The Midwife’s Tale
It is 1644 in York, England; while most of the town’s citizens think the greatest danger sits encamped outside the city, midwife Lady Bridget Hodgson and her assistant Martha know better. Esther Cooper stands accused of poisoning her husband, and Bridget and Martha have just a few days to save their friend from her demise…
Review: Eyes Like Stars
The Théâtre Illuminata is as old as time itself. Its inhabitants are magical, held together by the words their creators wrote, and bound to the theatre by The Book. Bertie lives in the theatre, but she is not truly a part of it. She is an orphan, left on the theatre’s doorstep by the mother…