When the Killing's Done Lib/E (Audiobook)

from EmScape

Alma is a conservationist working to save the native wildlife population of the islands of Anacapa and Santa Cruz from introduced species such as rats and wild pigs. Her nemesis is Dave LaFoy, who is an extreme animal rights activist. Alma is calm, scientific, and relatable as a character. Dave i...

from nog

A return to form after some lackluster novels (my wife warned me away from The Women as not worth the time). He followed this up with The Harder They Come, which is not only even better, but topical too. And the companion novel to this one, San Miguel, which I still have to read, is supposed to b...

from ChrisNorbury

I'd prefer to give it 3.5 stars because of the slow pace and anticlimactic ending, but Boyle's style and voice are impressive as he gets deep inside both the heroine's and the villain's psyches, which enriches the storyline and intensifies their interaction. A joy to read for the elegant prose, I...

from CasaBooks

First book of Boyle's I've read. (others still on my bookshelf)I liked it and will be certain to read more by him.Read the other reviews for theme of the Islands, family, organizations, environment.Definitely some 'food for thought' and an interesting ending.Read in 2011.

from Sharon_T

T.C. Boyle is at his best in this dramatization of building back the endangered species to an island off California. Who gets to play God? Should people kill off animals in order to preserve the lives of other species? He is brilliant as he weaves character's lives, the sea, the island and the an...