Breakup (Kate Shugak, #7)

Posted on 17 February 2017 by Dana Stabenow

April in Alaska is the period of spring thaw, what the locals call breakup For Kate, this year s meltdown brings nothing but mayhem First, the snow uncovers a dead body near Kate s home Then a woman is killed in a suspicious bear attack Kate is drawn further into the destruction of breakup and into the path of a murderer Read Breakup (Kate Shugak, #7) – kino-fada.fr Tense and slow going in parts and meditative, witty and biting in others, Breakup by Dana Stabenow is such a beautifully written mystery it brought the story and characters to life with stunning clarity Set against their annual Spring Thaw the story focuses primarily on Kate Shugak, an Aleut woman who lives with her dog, Mutt, in a colorful, but close knit community Initially I didn t understand why Stabenow chose the term breakup for the title until I plunged deeper into the drama Shug Tense and slow going in parts and meditative, witty and biting in others, Breakup by Dana Stabenow is such a beautifully written mystery it brought the story and characters to life with stunning clarity Set against their annual Spring Thaw the story focuses primarily on Kate Shugak, an Aleut woman who lives with her dog, Mutt, in a colorful, but close knit community Initially I didn t understand why Stabenow chose the term breakup for the title until I plunged deeper into the drama Shugak experiences in such a short period of time Fi...Kate Shugak grabs the bull by the horns, any bull before her, with tenacity and initiative, sometimes whether it s hers to take or not A thirty something Aleut woman living on her own in rural Alaska, the forces weighing on her personally include an alluded to past in law enforcement this is my first Kate Shugak book, but the seventh in the series and the responsibilities inherited from her deceased grandmother who was a very capable tribal elder In Brea...Break up in Alaska is evidently the spring season when the snow thaws and everyone starts moving and working again after a long winter I always enjoy reading about different locations and cultures in a fictional context, but in this case, the improbable plot simply got in the way of enjoying this work Kate Shugak, the super protagonist, is chased by a bear, has a plane engine fall on her car, breaks up two families who are shooting at each other and at innocent bystanders in a bar over an Break up in Alaska is evidently the spring season when the snow thaws and everyone starts moving and working again after a long winter I always enjoy reading about different locations and cultures in a fictional context, but in this case, the improbable ...I am reading the Kate Shugak series from the start, and this is the latest book I ve read With each passing story, Shugak s Native American roots are developedprofoundly, along with the difficulty tribal life faces on many fronts Shugak is a tough, appealing character, and the author does a marvelous job deepening the reader s understanding of the woman as the stories unfoldas well as painting a fascinating word portrait of life in Alaska My only complaint if it s that is the unbel I am reading the Kate Shugak series from the start, and this is the latest book I ve read With each passing story, Shugak s Native American roots are developedprofoundly, along with the difficulty tribal life faces on many fronts Shugak is a tough, appealing character, and the author does a marvelous job deepening the reader s understanding of the woman as the stories unfoldas well as painting a fascinating word portrait of life in Alaska My only complaint if it s that is the unbelievable number of events that tumble one upon the other, which frequently happens in the books In the course of one day there are so many convenient arrivals of various characters to move the story along, that it s comical Perhaps that s the mood the author wishes to convey, and once you accept the fact that anybody can suddenly drop in at any time in any place, the story is acceptable Sort of a fantasy of the wildness of Alaskan life, its frontier atmosphere, its tragic inte...And in this episode.Kate s homestead gets sat on by an airplane engine falling out of the sky While the investigators are checking the engine landing out, they discover a body in the woods outside of Kate s property Kate s friend Mandy s parents are in town and driving Mandy nuts, so Mandy begs Kate to take them on a tour, using Mandy s new truck Kate and the parents run into a man who claimed his wife was killed and eaten by a bear.A...This was my first Dana Stabenow book I found it at a Boucheron conference and then made the mistake of opening it After that, I didn t want to do anything but read, and as soon as I got home, I bought the rest of Dana s mysteries She offers a darkly compelling view of life in the Alaskan bush, well laced with lots of gallows humor Her characters are very believable, the story lines are always suspenseful, and every now and then she lets a truly vile villain be eaten by a grizzley Who could This was my first Dana Stabenow book I found it at a Boucheron conference and then made the mistake ...BREAKUP VG Stabenow, Dana 7th Kate ShugakKate finds herself involved in a murder investigation after a body is found near her homestead and, through the guidance of her Aleut grandmother s spirit, she assumes the role of clan leader and takes on major responsibilities to help her people.This was...Many odd things are going on with the coming of spring The bears are waking and are very hungry A plane engine drops on Kate s truck and cabin Bodies are found.The action in this one starts out in the first chapter as Kate encounters two bears in the first several pages Followed by a jet engine crashing into her yard,bears, a moose, drunk hunters, and just the general chaos that seems to be expected by the characters in the spring In fact, my husband worked on the Alaska highway and when I told him about a couple of the scenes and assured me that those kinds of things really do happen.With Kate s grandmother s death, she s feeling a lot of pres The action in this one starts out in the first chapter as Kate encounters two bears in the first several pages Followed by a jet engine crashing into her yard,bears, a moose, drunk hunters, and just the general chaos that seems to be expected by the characters in the spring In fact, my husband wor...This series seems to revolve less and less around mystery as it goes on This isn t necessarily a bad thing but it can get a bit bemusing at times I spent the first half of this book enjoying what was going on gun fights, bear attacks, engines falling out of the sky but waiting for the main mystery to break In the second half I just got on with enjoying it and didn t worry about it In retrospect there is a murder in the book and it is solved but the proportion of page space taken up by this This series seems to revolve less and less around mystery as it goes on...

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17 February 2017

Dana Stabenow