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Review Date: 5/12/2012
An old book, but the mystery still holds. I gave it to my husband who wondered why I'd given him a "romance" but eventually he got through the introduction and enjoyed the story as well. I guess it is a valid look at life for white folks in the Rift Valley, but it's really hard to imagine such a lifestyle today.
Review Date: 12/14/2021
This is both a "standard Kate Shugak" and very much not "standard" as there are some very different plot twists. Next (hopefully not last) in the series, it would read acceptably as a stand-alone. This Alaskan likes Stabenow's take on Alaska.
Review Date: 10/30/2013
I was introduced to John Stith about a year ago and am working through everything he's put out asap. Manhattan Transfer continues to be my favorite. It's a science fiction that holds true to the science while still developing characters and an amazing plot line. I wish I could read it again for the first time, the discovery was amazing.
Review Date: 5/28/2012
As an Alaskan this book insults me, but Janet's still a good writer and if you remember that she's a New Jersey girl it's not a bad romance story.
Review Date: 5/6/2022
As an Alaskan I always enjoy an "Alaskan" book that was written by someone who may actually have been in Alaska. Cameron's characters read true. The import characters are a bit extreme, but that's the point. I enjoyed "Open Carry" enough that I've passed it on and ordered the next in the series.
Review Date: 6/1/2022
STONE CROSS is a great read, written by someone who actually knows Alaska (which is more rare than I'd wish.) It's essentially an "action thriller" slowed down by the realities of a blizzard in a rural setting. Cameron also works a good deal more character development into his tale than I've found in most thrillers. I'm now looking for book 3 in the series.
Review Date: 5/24/2012
Helpful Score: 1
Perhaps the best of the Shugak books, Stabenow has woven a number of interesting bits of real history into the story (eg. who knew Dascell Hammitt served in the Aleutians in World War II?) which is clearly a fiction... and a great companion on an airplane, as to story carries over the tedium of a long flight. While clearly a part of the Shugak series, it's not necessary to have read the earlier books to enjoy this one.
Review Date: 5/25/2017
Clearly the first in the series, she's not yet at her best, but an interesting story about a strong woman in an unusual setting that requires a bit of thinking to unravel the mystery before it's revealed. Worth your time to read. I passed it on to a friend who also enjoys Nevada Barr's energies and he says that it's a realistic depiction of the National Park.
Review Date: 10/30/2013
M.L.N. Hanover's "Black Sun's Daughter" series is well written science fiction with more of an emphasis on the people in the story than the "spirits;" their interactions create the reason to read this and the rest of the series.
Review Date: 5/12/2012
Initially recommended by an Alaskan friend, having just been in Kenya I was fascinated with this book. It's an "easy" read but there's meat on the content bones. Much of it is the story of her growing up in "British East Africa" and some of it is more self-serving than entirely truthful, but it gives a good feel for Africa and for the early years of flight. Her "big" achievement, being the first to fly across the Atlantic from Great Britain going west, was almost a footnote. I enjoyed it and would recommend it.
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