(From here on this review will contain spoilers.) It was creative, engrossing, and well-crafted. I really enjoyed this book, it opened my eyes to a new side of history. But they carry on through their hardships because there is a spark inside them that refuses to be extinguished.
They are brave and scared, uncertain and sure. Including heroines that are monsters and pirates and screenwriters and schoolteachers. It includes 15 original short stories, written by a mix of authors both well-known and relatively new, places young women of racially diverse backgrounds at the centers of fictional narratives throughout American history. In this particular anthology there were some incredibly beautiful stories. They stay with me for a long time because of their ability to pack a short, emotional punch that leaves me thinking about it for a long time to come. I read My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories earlier this year and came realize that short stories are one of my favorite types of storytelling.
I personally really enjoy reading anthologies. I was so excited when I found about this anthology because some of my all-time favorite authors were included and I got to visit Leslye Walton’s beautiful writing again (I really really really love The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender).Īs a result, I’ve been hyping this book up in my head for months, which usually spells disaster, but this did not disappoint. They're making their own way in often-hostile lands, using every weapon in their arsenals, facing down murderers and marriage proposals. They are monsters and mediums, bodyguards and barkeeps, screenwriters and schoolteachers, heiresses and hobos. Join fifteen of today’s most talented writers of young adult literature on a thrill ride through history with American girls charting their own course. From an impressive sisterhood of YA writers comes an edge-of-your-seat anthology of historical fiction and fantasy featuring a diverse array of daring heroines.Ĭriss-cross America - on dogsleds and ships, stagecoaches and trains - from pirate ships off the coast of the Carolinas to the peace, love, and protests of 1960s Chicago.
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