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Title: Liberty Falling by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0-380-72827-3 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.48 (46 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A good read
Comment: This is the 2nd Anna Pigeon Mystery I have read and liked it, but thought "Deep South" was a bit better. In this book, Anna is in New York to keep an eye on her sister who is in the hospital, but it seemed like she spent a heck of lot more time running around the city. Most of the story takes place on Ellis Island where Anna is staying with a fellow ranger. She takes to exploring the area and happens to be a witness when a young girl falls to her death off the Statue of Liberty. The police believe she may have been pushed by one of the security guards who, himself, ends up being the next to take the plunge. Of course, Anna can't rest (I noticed throughout the book she rarely slept) until she solves the mystery. Clues are hard to come by, but Anna manages to turn things up that the police couldn't. She ends up piecing things together and nearly gets herself killed in the process. The story tended to drag on a bit, but all in all it was a pretty good mystery. I guess I'm getting hooked on Anna Pigeon mysteries and will have to check out the others by Nevada Barr.
Rating: 4
Summary: Liberty Falling
Comment: I can't help but get caught up in a Nevada Barr novel: I enjoy the settings, I am intrigued by Anna Pigeon, and I am caught up in the plot. "Liberty Falling" has all the Nevada Barr attributes of the earlier novels, and I was doubly curious about the Ellis Island National Monument as a backdrop and a lifestyle.
But what was it this time that was boring? I think it was the endless ferry rides...and the bifurcation of the plot between the hospital room dramas (and melodramas) of Anna's personal life and the crumbling ruins of the old hospital on Island II. It was, perhaps, the overly dramatic symbolism of the island vs. the teeming city, the worship of Lady Liberty contrasted with the skinheads and the partyboats who populate the novel, etc., etc. I even began to see symbolism in the bird droppings and Anna's last name, there was so much literary contrivance. And finally, there is the overly inflated and puffed writing style which Barr uses heavily--long sentences loaded with descriptors drag across the pages with increasing frequency.
Mind you, I still enjoy a Nevada Barr novel and I look forward to the next one. But I think in "Liberty Falling" Nevada Barr has not maintained her earlier promise as a good all-around writer and teller of great stories.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great backdrop in Ellis Island!
Comment: Since this was my first Anna Pigeon mystery I didn't have any problem seeing her in a national park that wasn't so "natural."
I loved the descriptions of the crumbling buildings on the islands and found them to be wonderful eery backdrops for intrigue.
The suspense plot kept my interest and gave me plenty of thrills
even as I enjoyed the gentler suspense of the sub-plot of Anna's ailing sister. I'm delighted to have discovered Nevada Barr's works.
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Title: Blind Descent: : An Anna Pigeon Mystery by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0380728265 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Endangered Species by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0380725835 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Firestorm by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0380725827 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Deep South by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0425178951 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 06 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Blood Lure by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0425183750 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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