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Play With Fire (Kate Shugak, Bk 5)
Play With Fire - Kate Shugak, Bk 5
Author: Dana Stabenow
Once, Kate Shugak was the star investigator of the Anchorage DA's office. Now she's gone back to her Aleut roots in the far north of Alaska. After a forest fire, she ventures into the charred woodlands to look for wild mushrooms. Instead, she finds a corpse - and a disturbing mystery. The victim was the son of a local preacher, and Kate's invest...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780425147177
ISBN-10: 0425147177
Publication Date: 4/1/1995
Pages: 282
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 12 ratings
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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 reviewed Play With Fire (Kate Shugak, Bk 5) on + 8 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
Very disappointed in the anti-Christian rhetoric in this one. Really preachy against "organized religion"... I couldn't finish this book since every time I'd get through a church-bashing part and I thought the author was done with it, up it would come again.
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Helpful Score: 1
I got tired of reading Stabenow's books in random order and finally got all 17 of them. They are staying on my book shelf - the stories are good, but the rich backgrounds and descriptions make them keepers. She and Diana Gabaldon stay on my shelves, but thank heavens Dana Stabenow doesn't wait 5 years between books.
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 reviewed Play With Fire (Kate Shugak, Bk 5) on + 314 more book reviews
Another good story. This time her client is a 10 year old boy.
cyndij avatar reviewed Play With Fire (Kate Shugak, Bk 5) on + 1032 more book reviews
Fifth in the series. This one seemed awfully bleak to me. Don't go into this expecting justice to be done. There is little mystery - the reader and Kate know what happened and how very early on, and then it's just a matter of the reader learning why Kate feels she needs to pursue it. I didn't even get the feeling that she thought anything would come of it. There's a lot of exposition about the harm of fundamentalist religions and not a lot of action. Not my favorite, but I found Kate's college story to be interesting.
annapi avatar reviewed Play With Fire (Kate Shugak, Bk 5) on + 334 more book reviews
This is one of the more difficult of the series to read, because the bad guys do not get their comeuppance in the end. Kate finds a dead body in the woods after a forest fire has swept through. Although his death is deemed accidental, she is suspicious and investigates on her own, leading her to a community of religious fanatics. Stabenow uses her book to firmly express her own beliefs, which I wholeheartedly agree with, but the bitter and unsettling ending detracts from the enjoyment of the story, even as it faithfully reflects the truth of the adage that "life isn't fair". The characters as usual are marvelously drawn and very real, and as the series progresses we see Kate's character being more fleshed out and developing.
reviewed Play With Fire (Kate Shugak, Bk 5) on + 18 more book reviews
As always, a good read.


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