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A review by daumari
Firestorm by Nevada Barr
3.0
I feel like it's important to read a series in order, especially a long-running one like this because these characters and their worlds build over the years, and it's apparent here where a fellow park ranger from Mesa Verde also makes her way out to Lassen Volcanic NP to fight fires, and Fredrick the Fed shows up sniffing around when murder (it's always murder) rears its ugly head. Firestorm felt different than previous Anna Pigeon adventures though, because the location very much made it like a locked house/island murder mystery: the titular firestorm strands ten people on a slope and one of them killed the eleventh. Due to the fire, no one came in or out so who among the survivors is the killer, and can Anna identify them before she tips them off?
It's always interesting to come to a then-contemporary book years after the fact- this is firmly mid-'90s, and that's most apparent with Stanton's viewpoints as he gathers information on his end. Queer representation surprises me for some reason, even though LGBTQ+ have always existed- it's a plus that it's another part of their version of our world. The conclusion came very quickly to me- I found myself looking at how many pages were left and wondering how much was going to avalanche at the end. Firestorm does suffer the similar problems I've had with other Anna Pigeon books where it's hard to keep the cast of characters separate- there's some standouts but otherwise suspects start to blur together...
On to [b:Endangered Species|76704|Endangered Species (Anna Pigeon, #5)|Nevada Barr|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1326365977l/76704._SY75_.jpg|1484792], I guess...
It's always interesting to come to a then-contemporary book years after the fact- this is firmly mid-'90s, and that's most apparent with Stanton's viewpoints as he gathers information on his end. Queer representation surprises me for some reason, even though LGBTQ+ have always existed- it's a plus that it's another part of their version of our world. The conclusion came very quickly to me- I found myself looking at how many pages were left and wondering how much was going to avalanche at the end. Firestorm does suffer the similar problems I've had with other Anna Pigeon books where it's hard to keep the cast of characters separate- there's some standouts but otherwise suspects start to blur together...
On to [b:Endangered Species|76704|Endangered Species (Anna Pigeon, #5)|Nevada Barr|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1326365977l/76704._SY75_.jpg|1484792], I guess...