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Title: Blood Lure by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0-425-18375-0 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: February, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (40 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Still a fan!
Comment: I really like Nevada Barr's series starring Anna Pigeon. The glimpse of romance in the air in the last novel coupled with all the suspense and life-threatening action really made for a great read. Bloodlure, on the other hand, had Anna away from her home park on assignment to learn about DNA testing for wildlife. In Glacier national park she meets up with some excitement (in the form of a bear attack at night) and murder.
I was a tad disappointed with the storyline in this mystery. Unless I am just getting really good at picking out clues... I very nearly had the whole story figured out by the half way point. I kind of felt the author just needed to take a break awhile before coming up with the answers to how she was going to continue to flesh out Anna's private life in Mississippi so wrote this little vacation story just to fulfill her contract. And that is ok! I still enjoyed Anna and the escapades that surrounded her on this trip. I just know that I have been enthralled an unable to put to the book down for other of Barr's novels, and not so much for this one.
Rating: 3
Summary: A wonderful story, but . . .
Comment: Let me begin by saying that I love Nevada Barr's Anna Pigeon books, especially when the park the story concerns is in the West, parks with which I am familiar. For instance, the description of the firestorm in the book of that name was so wonderfully written and so compelling that one's heart pounded with fear when reading it. Few times have I read action narrative that pulled me so totally into the scene. I've read that book and especially that scene over and over again and it just gets better.
The location for "Blood Lure" being Glacier National Park and concerned with the beautiful Grizzly bear, I really wanted to love this book. And most of it I did. The story was intriguing and the plotting was masterful, the ending was a little abrupt but almost completely satisfying. Anna Pigeon is a wonderfully three-dimensional character and Barr never makes a misstep with her - Anna never acts out of character even as (or especially as) that character develops over the time frame of all nine novels.
What I did NOT enjoy were the many errors throughout the book. Words were missing, punctuation was missing, punctuation was incorrect (the kind that makes it difficult to figure out what was meant), etc. It's like watching a film and being so engrossed in the story that you are "there" - and then you see the microphone hanging over the scene above the actors' heads. BANG! You're back in the theater again. On page 5 of "Blood Lure" Anna is introduced to Rory Van Slyke, a teenager with Earthwatchers volunteering to help with the Grizzly DNA project that has brought Anna to Glacier. Anna responds to the introduction by saying, "How you do?" There are four or five more instances like that throughout the book. Barr's words deserve better than this. These kind of sloppy editing errors snap one out of the story and ruin the flow of description and of dialogue.
I'm sure that there will be folks out there who will read through this review and correct my grammar and spelling... I believe that editors should stop relying on spell-check and do a better job of actual editing.
One last item: Having been to both Glacier and Waterton Parks (or Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park), the map in the front of the book and the geographical references within the book confused me. Consequently, I went to the Glacier Park website and downloaded the Park map. I guess maybe some of Waterton Park is in British Columbia (two campsites?), but the vast majority including the part shown on the map in the front of "Blood Lure" and the part around Flattop Mountain described in the book are directly south of Alberta, Canada, not British Columbia.
Sigh . . . color me a grouchy old woman, but I was very disappointed that a Penguin-Putnam book was this carelessly edited. However, if these kinds of errors don't bother you, by all means go ahead and read the book. The story is great if you can ignore the distractions.
Rating: 3
Summary: Anna Pigeon is Bear-able
Comment: Anna is on assignment in Glacier National helping with grizzly bear research. A body is found which is, of course, apparently killed by one, but the facts don't quite fit and the adventure begins.
Overall I enjoyed reading this book and recommend it, but I didn't think it was nearly as well thought out as other Anna Pigeon adventures. I struggle for words to explain without giving things away, so I'll just say that it felt contrived from the beginning. It is easy for the reader to identify the details that will be significant later in the story. As such the reader will see the ending coming. I also had a hard time following the physical setting and was constantly referencing the map (thoughtfully printed inside both the front and rear covers.
I don't think this would be good for someone's first Anna Pigeon adventure. I would recommend reading one of the others such as "Track of the Cat", "Firestorm", or "Endangered Species" first.
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Title: Hunting Season by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0425188787 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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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: 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: Endangered Species by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0380725835 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Liberty Falling by Nevada Barr ISBN: 0380728273 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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