{"id":11841,"date":"2019-04-12T11:04:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=11841"},"modified":"2022-08-14T09:24:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T13:24:56","slug":"bone-to-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11841","title":{"rendered":"Bone to Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bone to Pick<\/a><\/em> (2017) TA Moore (Digging Up Bones)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cloister Witte is a K9 deputy. He also has a problem with authority and recurring nightmares from his childhood.<\/p>\n

He was tanned the color of whiskey, and his hair was wet and honey streaked, dripping onto his shoulders. Ink scrawled up over his ribs, but the pattern was shattered by a burst of pale white scar tissue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Javi Merlo is the Acting SSA for the FBI’s one-man office in Plenty CA. Plenty has more than it’s share of troubles, with active drug traffickers and a local police department that was disbanded due to corruption. He’s a good agent, but he has zero interest in romance, wants only to recover his reputation.<\/p>\n

Sometimes Javi was such a prick it was hard to share his head with himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s be clear, Javi IS an asshole. <\/p>\n

\u201cSeriously?\u201d Cloister asked, raising his eyebrows. \u201cSo instead of commitment issues, you\u2019d rather people think you\u2019re a snob with a taste for rough trade?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cloister is a mess, and is willing to take fucking over a relationship, because he doesn’t believe he deserves anything else. It’s actually difficult at times to watch Cloister have so very little respect for himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cCloister.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cReally?\u201d Javi asked. \u201cI thought that was a nickname because you were religious. I didn\u2019t know your mother hated you.\u201d <\/p>\n

Cloister did a rolling stop at the exit. There weren\u2019t enough people on the road to merit a full stop. Sometimes being a cop made you worryingly blas\u00e9 about traffic laws. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was her maiden name,\u201d he said. \u201cShe didn\u2019t hate me till later.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(H)e thought the fact that his mother hated him would sting until the day they tossed the dirt on top of him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Especially since Cloister will defend the helpless and those in need at the drop of a hat, but is unable to see any value in himself–he looks like a bully redneck, and sees little use in dressing and acting in a manner that might convince people otherwise. <\/p>\n

For most of his life, looking like the guy most likely to throw a punch had helped him avoid having to throw any punches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’d rather spend all his time and money on Bon, his partner, and to hell with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to walk around here barefoot?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a dog,\u201d Javi said. <\/p>\n

\u201cNeither is Bourneville,\u201d Cloister said. \u201cShe\u2019s a sheriff\u2019s department deputy, and it costs more when she\u2019s on sick leave than it does when you are.\u201d Javi snorted like he didn\u2019t believe that. He\u2019d obviously never seen a vet bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cloister and Javi have to work together on a missing child case–Cloister because he and Bon do Search & Rescue, and Javi because the FBI is of course involved in a missing child case.<\/p>\n

It was an interesting mystery, because it didn’t go anywhere I had been expecting. That doesn’t mean I didn’t have suspicions about characters and who was involved, but they whys were both surprising and understandable–and so many things came back to the past corruption of the Plenty PD. <\/p>\n

I quite enjoyed this, even as I kept thinking Javi was a complete asshole and wanted Cloister to stand up for himself already.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bone to Pick (2017) TA Moore (Digging Up Bones) Cloister Witte is a K9 deputy. He also has a problem with authority and recurring nightmares from his childhood. He was tanned the color of whiskey, and his hair was wet and honey streaked, dripping onto his shoulders. 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