Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold (Kitty Hawk Flying Detective Agency, #1)

by Iain Reading

[Baroness Book Trove]

Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold by Iain Reading was an okay book. This book to me was confusing at first. This book centers around a girl named Kitty Hawk who is a pilot. I thought this book would have been more Nancy Drew-like, but it didn't quite get there.

What I like about this book:
• Cool information on the humpback whales. I did not know how they fed and that there are different subspecies of the humpback whale species. It was quite interesting to read the main character using her plane to follow the daily paths. Though what she was planning on doing with this information wasn't completely explained.
• I liked relearning about the Klondike Gold Rush. It was a pretty cool thing to revisit and I liked the interesting tidbits Mr. Reading added in. I did not know about Harrison Ford having a personal plane so that was pretty cool to learn.

What I disliked about the book:
• That there is two prologues’ and two epilogues’. That to me was just really confusing and didn’t make any sense. I mean I get the first one setting up for the whole series but it was still a bit weird.
• Another thing that I disliked was that the chapters to me were divided into the scenes which made it seem like a mini-chapter within the book. That to me was very confusing.
• I still didn’t get much with why Amanda Phillpott is Kitty Hawk’s enemy.
• I think the book might have worked better in third person instead of first person.
• I still didn’t necessarily get with why Kitty cared if the boat had gold on it or not since it didn’t really affect her all that much.

What I was iffy on about the book:
• How could Kitty not have told anyone what she was doing before going to check on the campfire? I mean if it was me I would have just left it alone.
• That she could fall for a guy without really knowing that much about him. And especially when she knew that she wasn’t going to stay there for very long.
• That she now considers the people, that started the campfire, as her family. I mean to me that is just plain weird. I wouldn’t think of them like that.

Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold by Iain Reading is an interesting book and one that I wouldn’t really recommend to my readers. I am giving this book three stars because I couldn’t get into it and I just don’t get how the gold and the whales really fit in together as a story. It also took me eight days to read this book and that is just something that I take into consideration as well when reading a book.

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