Endangered Species

Anna Pigeon

By: Nevada Barr

Narrated by: Cindy Williams

Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins

Publisher's summary

Tough, likable park ranger Anna Pigeon is back in another high-spirited outdoors adventure/mystery.

Anna has been assigned a three-week posting on Georgia's isolated Cumberland Island. Despite the breathtaking natural setting, Anna finds time weighing heavily as she works tedious fire pre-suppression duty. Her boring routine is shattered when a sudden plane crash in the inland palmetto thickets calls her and the other members of the fire crew to action.

When Anna and the crew investigate, they discover the plane was sabotaged. Suspicions smolder over the accident which killed both the pilot and his passenger, Cumberland's lone law enforcement ranger. Even the usually unflappable Anna is shocked by the desperate cold-bloodedness of the crime. Will protecting the island come at a price even Anna is unwilling to pay?

©2008 Nevada Barr (P)2022 Phoenix Books

Great if you want to be droned to sleep!

I love Anna Pigeon books narrated by Barbara Rosenblat. Thank goodness this was not the first book I listened to in the series or I would never listened to another. The story was good but this narrator (Cindy Williams) has the most boring, lackluster, droning voice I've ever heard. l don't know how many times (20 or 30) I fell asleep while listening only to come awake to return to the last place in the story I remembered and begin again.
I do plan to listen again, tonight, when I want to go to sleep; instead of the ocean or rain sounds I normally listen to when trying to fall asleep. It may just be the magic bullet I've been searching for to put me into a sleep coma. 😴 Here's hoping.

Abridged and Awful

Terrible reader. Story with no character or plot development. I only listened to it because I wanted to go through the series chronologically. It’s pretty much missable!

Don't Ever Waste Time on Abridged Nevada Barr

Anyone who writes as well as Nevada Barr should never be abridged into an audiobook. I'm still not really sure what happened. It was a confusing and boring read...all the fabulous Nevada Barr descriptions were cut. I hated it.

WORST NARRATOR EVER!!

I couldn't even get past the third chapter. The narrator is exceptionally difficult to listen to. Demonstrates no ability to modulate her voice to the different characters or nuances in the story. Sounds like she is on a race to get to the end. I'm very disappointed, but I just cannot listen to any more of her horrible narration. Why would anyone choose her over Barbara Rosenblatt for a narrator!

I’m sure the story made sense…before 3/4 of it was chopped away ‘abridging’it.

There was so much of the story removed as to make it unintelligible. Anna pigeon is an established character, this mish-mash stripped her of any of her familiar characteristics, what was more disappointing was the pathetic narration. Cindy Williams was worse than marginal. The characters were indistinguishable, the inflection and pacing were just lame. All in all, I really regret spending a credit on this mess.

It may be a good story but....................

I was excited to see another in book in the Anna Pigeon series. I purchased the book last week and began listening to it. The narration of this new Nevada Barr Anna Pigeon book was so bad that I may not ever listen to it. The narrator, Cindy Williams, was reading in a monotone. I may have to resort to reading this one. I have listened to and enjoyed enjoyed all of previous books read by Barbara Rosenbladt very much. I don't think this is just needing to get use to a change.

Bring back Barb Rosenblat

Good story, went quickly. Reader can't compare to Barbara Rosenblat who has narrated most of them.

Narrator?

Is this the same Cindy Williams whoin played Shirley? She sounded like she was trying to rush back to TV. This gets my vote as the most unbearable narration. Cindy is to storytelling as Sandra Bernhart is to acting. Bad!

bad narration

love this nevada barr series but this narrator's voice ruined this book. monotone and too fast I had to slow it down. zombie like!

Story was good would've preferred unabridged

Didn't particularly care for the reader. I always love Nevada Barr, but this reader sadly took some of the enjoyment out of the story.