{"id":118,"date":"2010-06-19T09:12:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T15:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2011-08-28T16:54:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T22:54:17","slug":"book-5-of-52-deja-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/book-5-of-52-deja-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 5 (of 52) &#8211; Deja Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1416570985\/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=center-2&amp;pf_rd_r=1JVCP99Q86HCM7B6TGRN&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=470938631&amp;pf_rd_i=507846\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Deja Dead - Kathy Reichs\" src=\"http:\/\/i.walmartimages.com\/i\/p\/09\/78\/06\/71\/01\/0978067101136_500X500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deja Dead - Kathy Reichs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>D\u00e9j\u00e0 Dead\u00a0was Kathy Reichs&#8217; first novel, but the second I&#8217;ve read.\u00a0 As the cover states, this series of novels is the inspiration behind the TV show Bones, although they share very little beyond the protaganist&#8217;s name and occupation.\u00a0\u00a0 The plot revolves around a number of dead bodies, and\u00a0forensic anthropologist Temperence Brennan is having a hard time convincing the Montreal authorites that they have a serial killer on their hands.\u00a0 As she starts her own investigation, the bodies, and murders, hit a little too close to home.<\/p>\n<p>After my previous attempt at reading a Reichs novel featuring the character (Cross Bones), I had no intention of trying another, but an Amazon Buy 3 Get 1 Free sale left me needing one more book, so here we are.\u00a0 I did end up enjoying this book much more,\u00a0although, as a fan of the TV series, it once again took some getting used to, as the character of Temperance Brennan is very different here than in the show.\u00a0 Once I got passed that and was engaged in the action of the book (which took awhile.\u00a0 I started this book last August, according to the ticket stub bookmark), it was a quick and enjoyable read.\u00a0 I&#8217;m certainly not running out to get more books in the series, but I&#8217;m not going to actively avoid them either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00e9j\u00e0 Dead\u00a0was Kathy Reichs&#8217; first novel, but the second I&#8217;ve read.\u00a0 As the cover states, this series of novels is the inspiration behind the TV show Bones, although they share very little beyond the protaganist&#8217;s name and occupation.\u00a0\u00a0 The plot revolves around a number of dead bodies, and\u00a0forensic anthropologist Temperence Brennan is having a hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,63],"tags":[109,40,769,770],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","category-television","tag-bones","tag-books","tag-deja-dead","tag-kathy-reichs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}