Procure Burn (Anna Pigeon, #16) Translated By Nevada Barr Rendered As Print

of you naysayers just don't want to accept the truth humans are a failed species, You whiny people are the reason monsters like this get away with this type of thing you CHOOSE TO IGNORE THE TRUTH.
This sort of thing IT IS YOUR FAULT FOR IGNORING IT! Nevada Barr does an EXCEPTIONAL job of telling the truth about horrors that are the horrible, devastating truth.
If you can't stand it Do something about it, Find these people. Kill them. They don't deserve to live,

Ms Barr has taken on a horrific subject and made it real, The people that really disturb me The blind idiots who gave the book a bad review, This is a desperately important issue, one that is ignored, denied, and swept under the rug by people who would just as soon pretend it doesn't happen.
If you stick your fingers in your ears and hum really loud, it will just all go away, right R i i i i g h t.
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I had a minister tell me once upon a time that things like this simply didn't happen that humans were too "Godly" for this to ever happen, and that I was a monster for saying it did.
Yes, and Santa comes down the chimney, the Tooth Fairy delivers quarters, and the man with the van really only wants to give your child a piece of candy he never would really hurt a fly, right Yes, dear morons, it happens, and No, it isn't a 'curable disability' it is a monstrous, horrific twist to the psyche that is incurable, other than with a needle in the arm or in "Old Sparky" too good a fate or by burning slowly at a rotisserie operated stake much more like it.


Thank you, thank you, Ms Barr, for writing "Burn", Yes, the reviews of many are stupid, simplistic, blind and cruel, I wonder what these same people would say if it were THEIR children who were taken and used in this manner

Ms Barr does an exceptional job of pulling off the cover of banality and blindness and writing a book which brings these horrors to life.
To say true, I had sort of gotten bored with Anna, As she has gotten older, she has gotten stodgy and dull sort of like the rest of us, None of her stories, in my estimation, really addressed anything truly important any longer, It was more like running around telling you about state parks and having fights, Apparently, Ms Barr was a bit bored with Anna herself, and decided to do something deeply worthwhile with her character.
Hooray for her! The book is absolutely fantastic, and, hopefully, will bring attention to an issue that Americans have ignored for far too long.

If the book opens the eyes of only a few, it will be worth the effort she put into writing a deep, intelligent, and worthwhile book.


What if it were YOUR child Oh how it pains me to give a Nevada Barr book astar rating.
I like Nevada Barr, I like her style, I love Anna Pigeon, but I just can't get behind her choice to use this subject matter.
In fact, I kind of wish I could give this a no star rating, I missed Anna running through the wilderness in a national park seeking out clues to a murder, Running from a forest fire or a wolf or climbing through a cave, I missed discussions of natural formations and of camping, I missed learning of her love of national parks,

In Burn, Anna is taking a break from her problems, She is in New Orleans staying with a ranger friend this is Barr's only nod to her BLM/Federal ranger genre who is a jazz singer stationed in a federal park where they preserve the history of New Orleans.
Anna falls into what we think might be a voodoo plot line but ends up being a child prostitution/abduction/yucky etc.
plot line. There is all too much graphic sex in this story adult sex clubs, strip clubs, prostitution, and the very worst, child sex abuse.
And Barr does not just gloss over this unfortunate topic to give us a feel for the evil that is out there in the world, she gives voice to it with descriptions that I did not need to ever in my life read.
Unfortunatly, the worst of it was towards the end of the book so I had already read most of the book when I got to it and I wasn't strong enough to put it down without reading the resolve.


My husband told me not to read it, He didn't explain why and I wish that he had given me specifics because had I know how bad it truly was, I wouldn't have begun it.
It was tasteless and icky and I'm tossing my copy into the garbage, Sorry Nevada you can do WAY better than this! Had to skip reading details of parts due to how abhorent the scenarios were.
Still action packed and an engrossing read over the top as usual, but I'd recommend skipping this one for the next.
This book had difficult subject matter, but is so well written, I do love this series, As usual, I wasnt sure how Anna would get out of the mess, I've been meaning to read Nevada Barr's Anna Pigeon series for a while, as I'm a big fan of US national parks, and like crime fiction set in rural areas.
The idea of a series set in a different national park each time, with a park ranger as the investigator, was right up my alley.
So when I saw BURN on the shelf at my local library when I was back in New Zealand on holiday recently, I grabbed it.


Bluntly, it may not have been the best example of Barr's series, representatively, in that it's actually set in New Orleans there's a citybased area run by the National Park Service, and BURN veers into some quite dark territory involving child trafficking and other urban nastiness.
As a reader I didn't mind that, as I've visited New Orleans a couple of times and find it a fascinating setting, and I'm comfortable with crime writers delving into the darker social issues of our times.
But I think for longtime Barr fans, this book may have been a bit of an anomaly compared to the rest of the series.


That would explain the very mixed reviews of the book I saw online, once I'd finished reading it.
I was left with a similar mixed view, not because of the urban setting or sexuallycharged crimes, but in that I enjoyed the book, found it flowed along and kept me interested, but I never felt it kicked up to the higher levels of crime fiction I enjoy.
It was just good, alright, worth reading, not exceptional,

Barr creates some fascinating characters it would be hard not to with New Orleans the setting as ancient beliefs and criminal commerce are all entwined.
Even though it was my first dip in the water of the Anna Pigeon series and is theth book in the series, I found it fairly easy to get a gauge on Anna and where she is at, lifewise.
I'm sure longtime readers may pick up subtler character development, if there, but there was enough backstory for newbies like me to understand what had gone on before the events in this book, and had led Anna to take some time out in the Big Easy.


It's a good solid book that won't have me racing out to read another Nevada Barr book immediately, in terms of queuejumping my large TBR pile, but has me intrigued enough to read her again in future.
I'm keen to see how some of the books set in the more remote national parks may compare,

This review was originally published on Crime Watch: sitelink blogspot. co. uk I'm only going to be able to give this bookstars,and a half if GRs had half.
Let me say first that Nevada Barr is one of my favorite writers, She is so descriptive. But the subject matter is quite disturbing, Mmy main quarrel with the book is that was confusing in the beginning, I went back and read the firstpages just to be sure, . Anna sees Jordan in New Orleans before Claire leaves Seattle or Portland or where ever she was, I realize Barr was TRYING to confuse us, but at least she could have put a date in there, or reordered the chapters.


I will not recommend this book to anyone unless they are a die hard Barr fan, and they have an idea of the subject matter.
I hate to think these kinds of things exist in the world, but I guess they do, I just don't want to read about them, I would like to read an interview with the author to find out her thoughts on this book, and how she went about her research.
It must surely be something she feels strongly about,

I also have some quibbles with the time planning in the ending, I hardly think that Claire would have been through with the police interrogation, gotten permission to take the little girl Aisha, and get them all bathed and clothed in time for Anna to wake up from her surgery and anesthesia.
It seems too compressed. In the end, I"m glad the bad guys got what was coming to them,

After all this violence, it will be interesting to see where Barr has Anna Pigeon go next, in terms of her marriage and the PArk Service.
. . Nevada Barr seems to be hit and miss in the Anna Pigeon series, I loved Borderline, despite some of the unbelievable parts, but its predecessor, Winter Study, was one of the worst in the series.
Burn comes somewhere in between, Like with all of her books, there comes a time I just cannot stop reading, But the world she created here in New Orleans was just too over the top, The people were just too awful, As always, she has a stereotypical horrible male characterthis one a childmolesting police captainbut I've always been able to overlook her inability to get beyond such portrayals.
What puzzled me here was her introduction of so many potentially intriguing characters who she just does nothing with, Conclusions are always Barr's weakness, and Burn is no different, The ending scene in the hospital just defies all reason, It serves as a device to tie up loose ends, Maybe Barr is getting tired of the Pigeon series, She did publish a nonAnna Pigeon novel two years ago, But I think more attention has to be given to timing so she does not rush through the end and is left having to drop further character development.
Still, Jordan's character is certainly interesting and the plot was chilling if nothing else, Not a bad read, but of thebooks of hers I have read, this one ranks in the bottom,
I'm kind of ready for Anna Pigeon to be killed off, I'm tired of her. I'm tired of Nevada Barr's bad writing, Out of fairness to Barr, I'm wishing her character dead instead of her, If I thought Barr's

writing would improve, but it won't.

Everything about Burn is unappealing: the urban settings of New Orleans and Seattle rather than the wilderness glories of a national park the child sex trade stupid plot lines annoying characters.
Technically, it is set in a national park: the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, Barr hardly makes it sound appealing, filled with "gutter punks, " Apparently the park "rangers" are the jazz musicians, unless Barr is making that up,

Readers averse to scenes set in sex clubs should know there are several, There are descriptions of adult stage acts, descriptions of gross dirty bathrooms, a scene where a dog nibbles on a corpse's exposed brain and the killer of said corpse masturbates over it because I guess she is still vaguely hot, descriptions of Anna being worried that the dog accompanying her will get nasty stuff on its feet bodily juices, and in the final scene, descriptions of naked adults engaging in sex acts and lots of child sex abuse.


It's rather far afield for Barr, who early on was writing innocent tales of drug running and, . . I've forgotten what else. Probably more drug running.

The novel's main character aside from Anna is an actress who is such a good actress that when she dresses up as a man, no one can tell she is a woman.
In fact she develops a split personality, fully inhabiting both characters, because she is such a good actress, Really, I don't think even Meryl Streep forgets that she is, underneath it all, Meryl Streep,

There weren't as many typos here as I've seen in other Barr books, but there were some,

" he made calls as he ran, his gate lopsided and slow, "

"Shoein" instead of shooin,

A couple places where the singular was used and the plural should have been, There was this weird sentence: "Shoes were never going to transgender, " I have since found out this is a correct usage, idiotic though it may be,

The stupidest and most offensive thing in the whole book is when Anna, undercover in a section of a sex club where small children are being raped and molested right in front of her eyes, is called "Miss Marple" by one of the rapists/molesters.
In this den of horrors Anna Pigeon pauses to be offended that she has been called Miss Marple rather than Nancy Drew, because one is an old hag and one is a young beautiful girl.
Yes, that's the level of humor Nevada Barr has sunk to, This was a more difficult read than the "typical" Anna Pigeon mystery novel, Instead of the wide vistas of various national parks and the descriptions of the natural world that offset the human predators she deals with, the setting is the darker side of New Orleans and modern day sex slavery and pedophiles.
The story is dark and the characters are also,

Anna continues her recovery from her breakdown after her traumatic experiences written about in sitelinkWinter Study and only partially relieved if not added to in sitelinkBorderline.
She has undergone so many changes in recent years, having found a new love and married again, This time in New Orleans was to be a further time of healing but Anna cannot constitutionally walk away from anything that feels wrong.


While the subject matter is difficult, and likely not for all readers, the writing is, as always, excellent.
I believe I've read all of this series now, This book kept me bound to find out what would be the outcome, To give too many details would be unfair, . . the summary of the plot given above is enough, As must be obvious, it was not too dark for me such situations exist in our world, I don't wish to revel in them but I will read a wellwritten mystery dealing with this terrible reality, First, this disclaimer: I received an advance copy of this book from the publisher, My thanks to St. Martin's Press amp goodreads!

I've been a Nevada Barr fan for a long while, and have read all of her books.
I especially enjoy the ones set in the south, in locales I recognize this was another familiar location New Orleans.


Usually Anna Pigeon is found out in the wilderness somewhere pursuing her job as a park ranger, This time out she is loosely attached to New Orleans Jazz NHP, while continuing to recover from some trying times.
It is a treat to see Anna in a different sort of setting, This is postKatrina New Orleans a city getting back on track but still overrun with abandoned buildings, Tourists are milling around flirting with Bourbon Street's dark and seamy side, and the local color includes voodooiennes, strippers, street punks and gangs.


Anna finds the city just as dangerous as any isolated wilderness, and as usual people are the most dangerous animal of all.
This is one of the darker Anna Pigeon stories, but fans will not be disappointed by the multilayered story and intriguing characters.


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