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Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1)

Nevada Barr

Start date: July 1, 2012

Finish date: July 31, 2012

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Aug 12, 2014 Karen rated it liked it · review of another edition

Having just returned from one of our wonderful national parks, Yellowstone, I was definitely discouraged by how miserable all of the characters in Track of the Cat seem to be. Many of the people we spoke with at Yellowstone were seasonal workers who come back year after year and love the park. No one seemed to much care for Guadalupe National Park. I guess July in Western Texas is probably not the optimal place to be, but it made for a depressing story.

Then there's Anna Pigeon. She was off-putt ...more

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Oct 21, 2021 Susan rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: gritty-mystery, set-in-north-america, re-read, cultural-usa, 2021

OK I get it. People suck. They really, really, really suck! Please could you stop hitting me on the head with that hammer now, please?!?

And actually, at some level I do get it; I am active in the environmental sector. But at another level I don't get it because all the time I come across volunteers who sacrifice their time and energy to make a positive difference for the natural world.

After that, meh. The book was OK. I normally round up for first books in a new series, which this one is, but I ...more

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Jan 30, 2023 Maggie Shanley rated it liked it

Good start to a series about Park Ranger Anna Pigeon, suspicious accidents, aliens and hunting game in the National Parks. I have read others in the series and so am enjoying going back to the beginning. I was hoping to find out about her previous career and maybe how she became a park ranger, but that was not to be. I did get a bit filled in on her husband Paul, the man whose death led to her up and leaving NYC.

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