Stephanie Jane recenzis Shoot Like a Girl de Kari Bovee
An interesting series prequel
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Shoot Like A Girl is a novella length prequel to Kari Bovee's first Annie Oakley series novel, Girl With A Gun. Through witnessing Annie's difficult life after her father's untimely death, readers can see some of what drove Annie to become such a fiercely independent adult woman.
Despite its brevity, I found Shoot Like A Girl to be quite the heartbreaking read. Annie's mother sends her daughter away at such a young age, for the best of reasons as the family is desperately poverty-stricken, but the harsh life Annie is hired out to is even worse. All credit to Bovee for managing to keep a light touch to this tale despite the grinding drudgery and mistreatment that Annie endures. I was encouraged to root for her throughout and appreciated how Annie's ebullient character keeps her going, never abandoning her dreams.
While I think there was certainly enough still-untold story in …
Shoot Like A Girl is a novella length prequel to Kari Bovee's first Annie Oakley series novel, Girl With A Gun. Through witnessing Annie's difficult life after her father's untimely death, readers can see some of what drove Annie to become such a fiercely independent adult woman.
Despite its brevity, I found Shoot Like A Girl to be quite the heartbreaking read. Annie's mother sends her daughter away at such a young age, for the best of reasons as the family is desperately poverty-stricken, but the harsh life Annie is hired out to is even worse. All credit to Bovee for managing to keep a light touch to this tale despite the grinding drudgery and mistreatment that Annie endures. I was encouraged to root for her throughout and appreciated how Annie's ebullient character keeps her going, never abandoning her dreams.
While I think there was certainly enough still-untold story in this novella to have fleshed it out into a longer and deeper novel, I understand that this wasn't really the book's purpose. Instead, as it is the first of the series I've read, it has encouraged me to spend more time with Annie Oakley so I am delighted to know I already have the next installment, the first of the Annie Oakley mystery series, ready to be opened.