Endangered Species

Anna Pigeon

By: Nevada Barr

Narrated by: Cindy Williams

Tough, likable park ranger Anna Pigeon is back in another high-spirited outdoors adventure/mystery.

Anna has been assigned a three-week posting on Georgia's isolated Cumberland Island. Despite the breathtaking natural setting, Anna finds time weighing heavily as she works tedious fire pre-suppression duty. Her boring routine is shattered when a sudden plane crash in the inland palmetto thickets calls her and the other members of the fire crew to action.

When Anna and the crew investigate, they discover the plane was sabotaged. Suspicions smolder over the accident which killed both the pilot and his passenger, Cumberland's lone law enforcement ranger. Even the usually unflappable Anna is shocked by the desperate cold-bloodedness of the crime. Will protecting the island come at a price even Anna is unwilling to pay?

©2003 Nevada Barr (P)2003 Phoenix Books, Inc.

Great if you want to be droned to sleep!

I love Anna Pigeon books narrated by Barbara Rosenblat. Thank goodness this was not the first book I listened to in the series or I would never listened to another. The story was good but this narrator (Cindy Williams) has the most boring, lackluster, droning voice I've ever heard. l don't know how many times (20 or 30) I fell asleep while listening only to come awake to return to the last place in the story I remembered and begin again.
I do plan to listen again, tonight, when I want to go to sleep; instead of the ocean or rain sounds I normally listen to when trying to fall asleep. It may just be the magic bullet I've been searching for to put me into a sleep coma. 😴 Here's hoping.

Abridged and Awful

Terrible reader. Story with no character or plot development. I only listened to it because I wanted to go through the series chronologically. It’s pretty much missable!

Don't Ever Waste Time on Abridged Nevada Barr

Anyone who writes as well as Nevada Barr should never be abridged into an audiobook. I'm still not really sure what happened. It was a confusing and boring read...all the fabulous Nevada Barr descriptions were cut. I hated it.

WORST NARRATOR EVER!!

I couldn't even get past the third chapter. The narrator is exceptionally difficult to listen to. Demonstrates no ability to modulate her voice to the different characters or nuances in the story. Sounds like she is on a race to get to the end. I'm very disappointed, but I just cannot listen to any more of her horrible narration. Why would anyone choose her over Barbara Rosenblatt for a narrator!

I’m sure the story made sense…before 3/4 of it was chopped away ‘abridging’it.

There was so much of the story removed as to make it unintelligible. Anna pigeon is an established character, this mish-mash stripped her of any of her familiar characteristics, what was more disappointing was the pathetic narration. Cindy Williams was worse than marginal. The characters were indistinguishable, the inflection and pacing were just lame. All in all, I really regret spending a credit on this mess.