I think this is a case of “It’s not you, it’s me.” When I was a kid/young teen, I went through a multi-year obsession with survival stories. I pretty much only read nonfiction about people (usually historical people) who survived crazy wilderness situations. The California and Yukon gold rushes we...
You know that game, The Oregon Trail? You would choose an occupation (I was usually a carpenter, so I could fix broken axles, wheels, etc), assign your skill points for foraging or keeping morale high, choose a city to start from(I always started from Independence or Jefferson City) and a city as yo...
4.5 starsI loved this book. Lee is forced to flee her home after her parents are murdered. Disguising herself as a boy, she heads west during the Gold Rush. Keeping her ability to sense gold a secret, as well as her true identity, she begins a dangerous, life changing adventure that teaches the m...
I am not quite sure why this was marketed as a fantasy- because in my opinion it isn't. Well, it does have some fantasy aspects.. but on the large, I would call this a historical novel. And therein lies my biggest issue. There is no world building. If this is a fantasy- then the world building i...
Walk on Earth a Stranger -- Rae Carson Book 1 of Gold Seer Saga I absolutely adored Rae Carson's Fire and Thorns series and so, unintentionally, I might have done a little bit of compare and contrast; and I might have over-hyped myself with the announcement and publishing of Walk on Earth a Stra...
At first, I was scared that this book wouldn’t be as good as The Girl of Fire and Thorns, but I was REALLY surprised when I found that I loved this book just as much as Rae Carson’s other works! It’s really amazing! There hasn’t been a lot of fiction set out near the west, so it was great to read th...
While I really enjoyed this book it certainly isn't what I had originally expected. I definitely thought it was going to be a fantasy novel but fair warning, its not. Its more about the gold rush and a young woman fighting for what she believes in. Either way, I was hooked from the first page. Le...
Set in 1849, this historical fantasy follows Lee, a young girl whose parents are murdered. She can sense gold nearby, so when her uncle shows up to claim her and her property, she disguises herself as a boy and sets out on the trail to the California Gold Rush. The focus here is very much on Lee, bu...
***This review has also been posted on The Social Potato Walk on Earth a Stranger may just be the best YA Western I’ve read so far. It’s all I ever asked for bundled into an exciting adventure that had flipping pages as fast as I could. Fair warning though, this book won’t be everyone’s cup of tea.F...
4.5 Loved it-though the degree of heartbreak was fairly high [spoiler] with the main characters parents being murdered at the start of the story [/spoiler] which I guess is to be expected from "Covered Wagon Fiction" God--that makes it sound so typical which it most definitely was not. In Lee Westfa...
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