Copy received from Simon and Schuster Australia for an honest review

It has been a while since I have picked up a Temperance Brennan book, however I found myself able to pick right back up where I had left off.

I love the procedural side of The Bone Code, the past combining with the present cases. I love Tempe's perseverance in cracking the case - even 15 years down the track.

I am also still shipping Tempe and Andy Ryan's romance all these years down the track.

And I did like that that book is set in 2021, and that it does deal with COVID-19 and the post pandemic state of the world.


However, the thing that didn't sit quite right with me was the bacterium threat storyline - not that that is something that couldn't happen, but that the author chose to use a vaccine as the way to spread said bacterium. In this day when people are still on the fence about getting the COVID-19 vaccine, this just felt tone deaf and that the author did not read the room on that one.

One other thing that caught me was some of the conversations with another major character in this book, a police officer. I even said to myself "Oh heck no, she did not just ask that?!?!?" It was quite cringeworthy.

So whilst overall I enjoyed The Bone Code, there were a couple of things that were just a bit hinky to this reader.

I do look forward to more Brennan books in the future.