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Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon, Bk 6)
Blind Descent - Anna Pigeon, Bk 6
Author: Nevada Barr
In Blind Descent, Anna Pigeon faces personal demons as well as life-threatening dangers in an untamed underground wilderness for which neither training nor her love of the outdoors has prepared her. Lechuguilla Cavern is a man-eating cave discovered in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns National Park in the mid-1980s. — Estimated ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780380728268
ISBN-10: 0380728265
Publication Date: 3/9/1999
Pages: 372
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 167 ratings
Publisher: Avon
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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ccwriter avatar reviewed Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon, Bk 6) on + 186 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 13
One of her best -- you actually feel trapped in the caverns!
reviewed Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon, Bk 6) on + 106 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Anna Pigeon's willingness to come to the aid of an injured friend trapped in the bowels of Carlsbad Caverns (the part off-limits to the general public) forces her to wrestle with her own claustrophobia-induced demons. In doing so, she places herself in greater physical peril than in most of the earlier books ... or perhaps it just seemed that way to this claustrophobic reader.

Anna remains one of the more interesting and three-dimensional amateur sleuths around today, and while the supporting cast is not necessarily so well-defined (and there are moments when readers who hadn't read the earlier books might have to struggle a little too much to understand relationships), there is a level of elegance to the writing which is not often found in works that have no pretensions to high literature.

This is a well-written novel with an engaging protagonist and a clever plot. Light reading doesn't get much better.
algernon99 avatar reviewed Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon, Bk 6) on + 418 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I generally like the Anna Pigeon stories, although sometimes they get a bit tedious. This one is my favorite of the four or five I've read in the series. I am fascinated by caves, yet have a healthy near-claustrophic fear of them. So does Anna Pigeon.

When she joins a rescue team to descend into the almost unexplored deep parts of Carlsbad Caverns, all sorts of interesting things transpire. The writing is excellent--I could actually feel the emotions (fear, primarily) as the story went on. This story even affected my dreams for a time!

I recommend it. The mystery elements are good, but the actual feeling of being way down deep in the bowels of the earth in tiny, tight places as well as in huge empty underground rooms is the main reason to read this amazing story.
wdwilson3 avatar reviewed Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon, Bk 6) on + 8 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I'm reading all of Barr's Anna Pigeon mysteries in sequence, and while I like all of them, this one is my least favorite so far, partly for personal reasons. The personal part is that I am claustrophobic, and the whole idea of caving in "wormholes" gives me the willies. As a matter of fact, I just had to put the book down a couple of times because I was so uncomfortable. Less personal, the book has a lot of spelunking and climbing technical lore in it that I just didn't follow. Ultimately, the plot is OK and the characterizations good, so if you don't share my personal phobias, plunge in.
Dove avatar reviewed Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon, Bk 6) on + 262 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I am really enjoying this series. I really like the mysteries and I enjoy reading about all the national parks where they are set.
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reviewed Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon, Bk 6) on + 2 more book reviews
I love Anna Pigeon- the main character in the series. Nevada Barr, the author, is truly a wonderful writer. Every book in the series takes place in a different national Park in the United States. So much to learn!
reviewed Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon, Bk 6) on + 18 more book reviews
For anyone who has ever done, thought of, or wondered about 'caving' (the art of descending to the depths of the likes of the Carlsbad Caverns), this book is a must. An Anna Pigeon Mystery at its best!
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I picked up this book while spending a weekend at my parent's cabin. I was just bored, I had never heard of this author at all. But I could not put the book down. I would recommend it to anyone that has a love of suspense!!!
reviewed Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon, Bk 6) on + 368 more book reviews
Boring. On and on with no clear plot
reviewed Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon, Bk 6) on + 459 more book reviews
Anna Pigeon must descend into a 300 mile long cave system, to help a fellow ranger who's been injured.

Overcoming her claustrophobia, she discovers evidence that that there is much more to fear than the cave.


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