Reviews for The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist

The average rating for The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-10-02 00:00:00 Kazuhiko Namiki And I thought you couldn't go wrong with case study books about forensic anthropology... Half of the case studies in the book end with something to the effect of, "and we never did find out what happened." Not many of the cases were terribly interesting to begin with, not much detail is given (the average case study seems to be only 5 or 6 pages long), not a lot of forensic information is given. It's almost if this were an annotated synopsis of some cases she had to help jog her memory after she retired. I gave it two stars instead of one because of the basic subject matter. I just can't figure out why you'd write a bunch of unanswered case histories. The closing chapter is a series of facial reconstructions of Jane and John Doe's, with a short paragraph about their race and location-- a sort of "have you seen me?". Maybe next time instead of going to the library, I'll go to the grocery store and read the back of the milk cartons. If you're interested in the subject matter, I would skip over this book and read Bill Bass's books, "Death's Acre" or "Beyond the Body Farm".

Review # 2 was written on 2012-07-24 00:00:00 Kariem Ramadan I know people are going to hate me for this, but this was THE WORST FORENSINCS BOOK I'VE EVER READ!!!. Obviously, in my opinion, this lady is NOT a writer and she should stick to the science part of her career. This book had sooo much potential, I can see that, but her boring and unappealing writing made this book unbearable to read, at least in my case. Sorry for those who liked this book, but I just can't share your opinion :/