While I live surrounded by rolling hills of green and
endless skies, I firmly believe that everyone should make the trek to visit our
49th State. Alaska is by far one of the most beautiful, natural
settings I have ever seen and offers an endless supply of photo opportunities
that almost defy description.
With her 20th book in the Kate Shugak series, Bad Blood Alaska based author Dana Stabenow
readily displays her ability to tackle the challenge of describing her home states
beauty. She follows native Alaskan private investigator, Shugak, around here
160 acre spread that is nestled in a State park with a practiced eye for
details.
Aside from capturing the setting, Stabenow is on point with
her ability to deliver the quirkiness of the unique folks who call Alaska home.
While many corners of the United States have their own combination of
linguistic phrasing and lifestyle traits, Alaska mixes rough concoction of wild
edged survival and native charm.
Marguerite Gavin returns to
narrate the audiobook version of Bad
Blood and does a fine job of capturing the Alaskan patois. While it’s
always difficult to jump into a long running series and pick up the disparate
characters, as a first-timer to the Shugak books, I felt the back story that
can prove annoying to long time readers was unnaturally thin here. It left me
feel like I was playing catch up piecing the story threads of what should have
been familiar characters together. Many series authors do a better job of
filling in the blanks than what Stabenow does here.
Bad Blood pushes
the story to the limits and the ending will leave many long time fans of the
Shugak series with questions and fears.
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