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Windigo Island by William Kent Krueger
By Jonetta · 1 post · 4 views
By Jonetta · 1 post · 4 views
last updated Jan 28, 2018 09:57AM
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I enjoyed this book but with some reservations. Fourteen books into the series and I am a Cork O'Connor fan. Now suddenly the author has chosen to view the story through the eyes of Cork's daughter, Jenny. I suppose this would have been okay if I liked Jenny, but I really don't.
Anyway, that's my problem and I will look past it and judge the book apart from that. As usual it was full of action, a few people lost their lives in not very nice ways, Henry remained calm, cool and collected and Cork d ...more
Anyway, that's my problem and I will look past it and judge the book apart from that. As usual it was full of action, a few people lost their lives in not very nice ways, Henry remained calm, cool and collected and Cork d ...more
Two young girls ran away from their homes in Bad Bluff, Wisconsin a year ago and one of them, Carrie Verga, just washed ashore. It’s uncertain what happened to her and where she’s been. Now the family of Mariah Arceneaux, Carrie’s runaway companion, seeks help from Henry Meloux to find her. Mariah is his great, great niece and he asks Cork O’Connor to assist preliminarily in his stead. As Cork makes plans to leave, his daughter, Jenny insists that she accompany him. She believes this mission is
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RATING: 4.5 STARS
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This story was heartbreaking - about sex trafficking - but so well-written. We do get more of Jenny, and this time her point of view. I hope this was just for this novel. I don't mind Jenny, but I just didn't get engrossed in her parts. I find Anne more interesting and what is going on in her mind, lol. ...more
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This story was heartbreaking - about sex trafficking - but so well-written. We do get more of Jenny, and this time her point of view. I hope this was just for this novel. I don't mind Jenny, but I just didn't get engrossed in her parts. I find Anne more interesting and what is going on in her mind, lol. ...more
When the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the residents of the nearby Bad Bluff reservation whisper that it was the work of a deadly mythical beast, the Windigo, or a vengeful spirit called Michi Peshu. Such stories have been told by the Ojibwe people for generations, but they don’t explain how the girl and her friend, Mariah Arceneaux, disappeared a year ago. At the request of the Arceneaux family, private investigator Cork O’Connor takes on th
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Feb 11, 2019
Vicki
marked it as to-read
