Liamthegeezer

Narration issue

Reviewed: 07-28-21

I've read and/or listened to almost every one of the Leaphorn/Chee/Manuelito novels, and love the depictions of the land, the Dine and Pueblo peoples, and the characters. This latest installment isn't the best of Anne's; I was pretty sure of the conclusion about halfway through, and all the threads were tied up in a bit too neat a bow at the end. But the story is compelling, and the lead characters are like old friends by now. However, I found myself distracted by the narrator's mispronunciation of "Canyon de Chelly" and "hogan". He seemed to have gotten the complex terms from a native speaker and just assumed the simple ones would sound like a monolingual American English speaker would read them. It's a quibble, I know; but still. I might end up just reading the book from now on, as I did most of Tony's. They're always worth a read.

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