The Rope, Nevada
Barr
Perhaps Nevada Barr had dragged poor Anna Pigeon through as
many changes, threats, dangers, and parks as we could accept as she continually
aged along with the series. So what to
do? Let’s go back to where Anna entered
the NPS and where she could once again be put through the Perils of Pauline
script that covers here adventures.
We meet a fragile Anna in Glen Canyon Dam recreational park
with the wonderful duty of shoveling up the excrement of boaters, campers and
other user/abusers. But if that is not
enough she is attacked, left naked in the bottom of a sink hole with only a
corpse for a partner and she must find a strength that she had not used in her
career in the theater.
She is here to recover from the death of her lover, but
instead it is about Anna finding her own inner strength and the pathway she
will lead through the books that many of us have already devoured.
There is a combination of wonderful natural landscape and
complex and flawed people to spice up the route and add twists to the stories
natural flow. I found it refreshing to
meet the young Anna. Like so many series
there is a point where you feel saturated by the character and their angst so
it is nice to step back and change the perspective.
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