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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
This was the first Anna Pigeon book I read and it got me started on the whole series. Loved the tenseness of Anna's survival fight in the wintry woods.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Nevada Barr is a good summer read. Her series on Anna Pigeon, the National Park Service Ranger is well written and based on a good understanding of the Park Service with a sprinkling of accurate terminology, accounts, and set in a beautiful Park location. The mysteries are well developed and will surprise you. I recommend the series to any mystery/park lover.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Anna Pigeon is out of her comfort zone. Posing as a waitress in a hotel in Yosemite National Park, she is undercover, hoping to find out why four young people disappeared.
Strange partiers, rumors of gold in the hills, and ransacking of her shared dorm room after a roommate has to be rushed to hospital in respiratory arrest all paint a perplexing picture.
Liked it a bit more than Flashback, although the dual-story in Flashback caught my attention more.
content warning: graphic violence and contemplation of murder in pre-emptive self-defense
Strange partiers, rumors of gold in the hills, and ransacking of her shared dorm room after a roommate has to be rushed to hospital in respiratory arrest all paint a perplexing picture.
Liked it a bit more than Flashback, although the dual-story in Flashback caught my attention more.
content warning: graphic violence and contemplation of murder in pre-emptive self-defense
Hmph. A bit contrived at the beginning: Anna is a waitress, making nice to visitors to Yosemite in the lodge's restaurant while trying to find out why 4 young people disappeared several months earlier.
Not Barr's best work, but still you just gotta love Anna. She seems to have mellowed now that she's got a guy waiting for her back in in Mississippi. She's a bit more patient with people, and less abrasive than normal. That's weird, but I guess it makes sense because of her current job and her personal life. Still, she gets a few shots across at people who annoy the piss out of her. And she has her requisite brush with death, this time she nearly freezes AND bleeds to death...
The 'bad guy' was a little surprising. Yes, I'll keep reading her, but this was coasting.
Not Barr's best work, but still you just gotta love Anna. She seems to have mellowed now that she's got a guy waiting for her back in in Mississippi. She's a bit more patient with people, and less abrasive than normal. That's weird, but I guess it makes sense because of her current job and her personal life. Still, she gets a few shots across at people who annoy the piss out of her. And she has her requisite brush with death, this time she nearly freezes AND bleeds to death...
The 'bad guy' was a little surprising. Yes, I'll keep reading her, but this was coasting.
Holy cow! The unnecessary violence in one part of the book!!
High Country (An Anna Pigeon Novel) by Nevada Barr (2005)
This was the first Anna Pigeon mystery I ever read. I especially liked it because I have been to Yosemite, but I always enjoy the books in this series. They're just fun to read!
This one was pretty mediocre. Anna Pigeon, undercover national park cop / woman of a certain age tries to solve the mystery of four missing young adults in Yosemite. I've never read an Anna Pigeon book, but the premise was interesting.
My complaints are pretty standard for a series that seems to be (from my limited perspective) formulated and written to fit a theme. The characters mostly fell flat, and the story was basically over two thirds of the way in. The "twists" brought in at the last minute weren't all that shocking. There was some offensive and outdated phrasing here and there which was mild enough that at first I thought I could forgive Barr for being an author in the mid 2000s, but they got grating after a while.
My complaints are pretty standard for a series that seems to be (from my limited perspective) formulated and written to fit a theme. The characters mostly fell flat, and the story was basically over two thirds of the way in. The "twists" brought in at the last minute weren't all that shocking. There was some offensive and outdated phrasing here and there which was mild enough that at first I thought I could forgive Barr for being an author in the mid 2000s, but they got grating after a while.