Deja Dead and Tamburlaine Must Die

Yay! More books! Let's start with Deja Dead, shall we?

Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
For those of you who are unaware, Kathy Reichs is the creator of Temperance Brennan a.k.a Bones. To my great disappointment, the Brennan of the T.V. show is completely different from the Brennan in the book. Tempe Brennan, in the book, is a middle aged divorcee with a teenaged daughter, living in Montreal. Also to my disappointment, Bones was not equipped with any of her trusty sidekicks, like Zach, Hodgins, Angela, Cam or WORST OF ALL, NO BOOTH! *sob* But that aside, the book was fairly good. It was filled with interesting facts about forensic anthropology. The characters were a little flat and hard to get attached to but the plot was well formed and quite suspenseful. All in all, I think this book deserves a 3.5 out of 5.

Next up, Tamburlaine Must Die-

Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh
Christopher Marlowe, the famous playwright, was mysteriously killed in a house in Deptford in 1593. This book fictionalizes the days leading up to his death. The work is utterly fiction; no one actually knows what happened but some facts are true. Christopher Marlowe was a notorious athiest and homosexual and he was arrested by the Privy Council in regards to notes left on the doors of various churches, threatening them by making allusions to his plays and signed "Tamburlaine", one of his most famous creations. Whether Marlowe was guilty is unknown and how he died is also a matter of discussion. The book is very interesting and the author creates a very believable Marlowe. Despite the sex scenes and the disturbing reference to necrophilia, the book was very vivid in its detail (yes, even in the sex) while managing not to ramble on, pointlessly which is a trap many authors fall into. I quite enjoyed this book and liked the author's writing style.I will definitely find more of her work in the future. The book deserves a 4 out 5

Biography of Christopher Marlowe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe