CLAWS 2 [Kindle Edition]

Stacey Cochran (Author)

Book Description

Down on her luck and bankrupt, embattled wildlife biologist Dr. Angie Rippard accepts a long-shot assignment from the governor of Colorado to determine once and for all if grizzly bears are completely extinct in the southwest corner of the state.

No one has seen a grizzly north of Durango since 1979, but the governor needs proof to halt development of a 6,000-acre ski resort that will devastate the natural resources of the region.

What Angie finds will forever disrupt construction of the 500-million-dollar resort, and pits her against powerful political forces that will stop at nothing to see that her research never sees the light of day… even if it means hunting her to her death through the worst snowstorm ever seen in the mountains near Telluride.

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"A great premise for a thriller ... a really fun read." - Emily Bestler, Dan Brown's Editor at Atria Books

"Cochran's strength lies in writing vivid, nail-biting (not to mention, terrifying!) scenes... Angie is a likable protagonist." - Jason Kaufman, Executive Editor Doubleday Broadway (hardcover editor of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol)

"Cochran has done an excellent job of portraying the frightening nature of wild animals -- I could almost see them at times." - Mark Tavani, Editor Random House

"The writing and characterization are top notch." - Charles Spicer, Editor St. Martin's Press

"Cochran is an impressive writer." - Mitch Hoffman, Executive Editor Grand Central Publishing

"The tension in some scenes is incredible -- I was on the edge of my seat." - Sarah Durand, Senior Editor William Morrow / Harper Collins

"Angie Rippard is a great character and the material is timely." - Samantha Mandor, Editor The Berkley Publishing Group

"Stacey Cochran is a very talented writer." - Colin Fox, Editor Simon & Schuster

"The writing was strong and suspenseful." - John Scognamiglio, Editor in Chief, Kensington Publishing Group

"I was drawn in by the fine writing of this thriller." - Hillel Black, Executive Editor Sourcebooks, Inc.

"Cochran has definitely penned a tale that will have everyone thinking twice about backpacking." - Eric Raab, Editor Tor/Forge

Product Details

• File Size: 458 KB
• Print Length: 221 pages
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B003TU20HE
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #329,421 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #21 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Science > Nature & Ecology > Mountains
  • #22 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Science > Biological Sciences > Animals > Bears
  • #78 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Biological Sciences > Animals > Bears

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Just too unbelievable November 18, 2010

By Kurt G. Schumacher VINE™ VOICE

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I don't give one-star reviews very often. Normally, I would have given a book like this two stars. So why only one star? Because I expect an author to improve over time. Stacey Cochran did not. I read "Claws" and it was mediocre. But there was no improvement in "Claws 2". In fact, it's worse than "Claws".

A lot of the same problems with "Claws" are present in the sequel. Stilted descriptions. Awkward writing. People acting inconsistently, and doing incredibly stupid things. (In fact, this is the type of story in which if people didn't keep doing incredibly stupid things, there wouldn't be much of a story.)

But I found the author's writing even harder to take this time. Compound sentences where the two parts weren't remotely connected. Overly detailed descriptions of things that weren't relevant to the story. (At one point there is a long description of the entire structure of a prison, when the action only takes place in one cell.) And writing that was so bad, I had to stop several times and read lines aloud to the people around me. Lines like:

"The sound of snowflakes hitting the ground echoed through the alley." (Dude, that is some heavy snow!)

"The silence in the room was hot enough to fry an egg on."

Partway into this book, I began to wonder if it was actually a parody of a bad "wild animals gone wild" book/movie. That worked for a while, but I still couldn't suspend my belief high enough.

The only way I could make my way through the book was to pretend it was an episode of "South Park". Just imagine Cartman saying this line: "That's where I'll do it. That's where I'll kill them all." Or this read by Stan: "It was an accident. But accidents don't really exist. Everything happens for a reason. It's part of the quarks and gluons that make up the space that we occupy. This stuff happens for a reason."

It reads a lot better that way.

But it still only gets one star.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars I almost never write reviews... April 23, 2011

By Donna Marie Kanabay

Format:Kindle Edition

... and I've never written a negative review, and I've stewed over this for nearly a week and I just can't stand it. I have to put my 2 cents in.

This was, without a doubt, the worst "book" I've ever read. The first book of Stacey Cochran's I read was Colorado Sequence, and I was spellbound. Eventually I read Amber Page, and while I didn't find it as riveting and engaging as Colorado Sequence, I enjoyed having some of the holes filled in. I read Claws, and it was ... okay. Eventually I got around to Claws 2.

I just have to add a "quotable quote" to everybody else's comments (all of which I agree with, including the bizarre inconsistency about the truck having been wrecked and then she's driving it the next day, and let's just not even talk about the ending,) I was just so struck by how BAD of a sentence this is, I had to highlight it in case I decided to post: "The floor was ice cold, but she could not find the gun."

Stacey, what does the floor being ice cold have to do with finding the gun?

Maybe you're not using an editor any more? I strongly suggest you rethink that practice.

We need a 0-star rating. This doesn't even deserve the 1 star i had to give in order to post.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars I enjoyed it---but...... August 11, 2010

By Tricia Bennett

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

This started out as a very exciting book and I was prepared to like the heroin, but the story itself is so illogical, it was hard to read. I will try not to include too many spoilers, but when a famous biologist shows up to prove there could still be grizzly bears in an area they were thought to be extinct for more than thirty years and the first week she is there, they seem to pop up everywhere, killing more people in a few days than usually died in in all of North American in several years, it's rather hard to accept.f

She seems to be able to pop up wherever the slaughter takes place, track the killer bears on foot with no weapons and get within a few feet of them time after time and never get attacked.

I'm still trying to understand how her vehicle fell down a mountain one day and she drove it home the next day. If you care for only the excitement of the bear attacks, they are many and graphic, but if you're looking for a well thought out novel, forget it.

There are many more very illogical scenes in the book, but none of them quite as bad as the ending.

More About the Author

Stacey Cochran is the bestselling author of In Love with Eleanor Rigby, The Loneliest, The Colorado Sequence, and CLAWS. One of the first authors to advocate for free and 99-cent pricing, Stacey made it onto Kindle bestseller lists in 2009; his collection The Kiribati Test eventually reached #6 overall in the Kindle store in January 2010. An excerpt from his current novel-in-progress Eddie & Sunny was selected as a finalist for the James Hurst Prize for Fiction by PEN/Faulkner Finalist Ron Rash in November 2011.

Stacey was born in the Carolinas where his family traces its roots to the 1700s. In 1998 he was selected as a finalist for the Dell Magazines Award for undergraduate fiction writing, and he made his first professional short story sale three years later. In 2004, he was selected as a finalist in the St. Martin's Press/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Contest, and he began teaching at North Carolina State University in 2006. He lives in Raleigh with his wife Susan, son Sam, and daughter Harper. His published books include CLAWS, CLAWS 2, The Colorado Sequence, Amber Page, Born on the Bayou, In Love with Eleanor Rigby, Chromosome 4, The Loneliest, and the short story collection The Kiribati Test.