Toni B. (finetacodog) -
I always love Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee novels and this one is no different. New characters, new loves, and the story told by Leaphorn at his coffee klatch begins the novel and ends the story with all the wrap ups. Previous reviewer stated that Leaphorn's girlfriend went down into the Grand Canyon, it is actually Jim Chee's fiancé Bernie, who went on a school field trip once and wanted to see the canyon again. Good thing too that she was there as she knew what can happen in the canyon when it rains. Good story. 4 Stars..
Maggie M. -
I tried so hard to like this book! For me it started at the very beginning where the reader is overwhelmed with names of characters, with no real explanation of who they are or how they figure into the storyline. Once we finally get to the so-called meat of the plot, the who, what, where, why, and how continues to be weak, with additional unknown/unexplained people thrown in. Then, Leaphorn's girlfriend is added into the mix for no apparent reason. She invites herself along on a steep hike down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon (because she's a former border control agent, allegedly has experience in hiking, and thinks it would be fun) and the reader finds out she's wearing friggin women's sneakers! It's irritatingly stupid writing like this throughout that added to my displeasure of this book. I forced, literally, myself to listen to this, but at the end of the last chapter, I had had enough and just didn't give a crap anymore and stopped listening.
