inger70 's review for:

The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner

5.0

emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I thought that this was going to be a Western and it was going to check the "book in a genre you don't typically read" category for my summer reading challenge. It isn't a western at all, but it is a really remarkable book. Despite being written in 1976, it read like it could have been written yesterday (other than a few references to Nixon). Although it wasn't a mystery novel, the Countess has a mysterious past that kept me intrigued right up until the very end. And of course there was the secondary mystery-what transpired between Joe and the Countess all those years ago? The ending was perfect.