What a Series! Go For It.
Having completed the entire Kate Shugak series, (20 books, to my knowledge), during this past year; I have to say I enjoyed the ride; every installment of it. I think this series would make an excellent movie franchise or TV show; (if Hollywood could refrain from screwing it up. I mean, could the corporate bean counters accept a Native Alaskan woman in a starring role, or someone playing that part?)
Author Dana Stabenow deserves a lot of credit for dishing up the characterizations, (of both the Alaskan bush and the people in her fictional cast.) The sign, to me, of a great novelist; is the ability to make the imagery come to life, mentally. For the modern city-dweller or suburbanite life in the wild is something that can only be imagined, (unless you count being in a deserted part of town at midnight.)
I spent a lot of time wondering if I would ever have what it takes to survive in a place where my nearest neighbor is twenty miles away. I would like to think I could. Who hasn?t dreamed of getting away from it all? (However, the extreme cold of Alaska may be too much of a challenge, if you haven?t lived in that environment before). I think I?ll just wait for the next Dana Stabenow book, (and watch the next installment of Buying Alaska, where they usually only show the houses for sale during the summer).
