Winter Study (Anna Pigeon)
by Nevada Barr
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Author: Nevada BarrEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-01
ISBN: 0399154582
Number of pages: 370
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Book Reviews of Winter Study (Anna Pigeon)
Book Review: I liked her books better without an agenda...
Summary: 2 Stars
Up to now, I have read Nevada Barr's books practically savoring every word. I have travelled to many National Parks and so I have enjoyed her descriptive settings and the associated mysteries she has placed in the numerous parks. I have usually felt like I was right there in the middle of the action - (gee, I couldn't read and get out of the caves in Blind Descent fast enough, they felt so real!)
But this book seemed like it was written for a different purpose altogether. I never felt a true sense of Isle Royale National Park. (Superior Death was much better at that.) I never felt a connection with the action or characters - they seemed to be one-dimensional, where usually Nevada Barr has such depth to her characetrs. I even skimmed the middle 170 pages and still got the whole story that she had there.
This could have been a much shorter novel for the story she was telling here. (It could have been the same length if she had gone into better depth of action and character).
The covert agenda wasn't necessary either. When I got to the first part of it, I almost stopped right there. It would have been the first novel of hers I hadn't finished.
I have always waited for each new novel in high anticipation. She needs to go back to what worked. Very disappointing.
Summary of Winter Study (Anna Pigeon)
Anna Pigeon returns-in the remarkable new novel from the New York Times-bestselling writer.It is January, and Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is sent to Isle Royale in Lake Superior to learn about managing and understanding wolves, as her home base of Rocky Mountain National Park might soon have their own pack of the magnificent, much-maligned animals. She's housed in the island's bunkhouse with the famed wolf study team, along with two scientists from Homeland Security, who are assessing the study with an eye to opening the park each winter-effectively bringing an end to the fifty-year study-so that it can be manned to secure the scrap of border with Canada.
Soon after Anna's arrival, the wolf packs under observation begin to act in peculiar ways. Giant wolf prints are found, and Anna spies the form of a great wolf from a surveillance plane. The discovery of wolf scat containing alien DNA leads the team to believe that perhaps a wolf/dog hybrid has been introduced to the island. When a female member of the team is savaged, Anna is convinced she is being stalked, and what was once a beautiful, idyllic refuge becomes a place of unnatural occurrences and danger beyond the ordinary. Alone on an island without electricity or running water, with temperatures hovering around zero both day and night, Anna fights not only for the wolves, but for also her own survival.
Filled with the nail-biting suspense, richly drawn characters and gorgeous nature writing that are her hallmarks, Winter Study is vintage Barr, proving once again that she's "a real writer, in every sense of the word" (The Denver Post).
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