{"id":38507,"date":"2020-10-29T22:14:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T02:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38507"},"modified":"2020-10-29T22:14:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T02:14:24","slug":"review-of-my-calamity-jane-by-cynthia-hand-brodi-ashton-and-jodi-meadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38507","title":{"rendered":"Review of My Calamity Jane, by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My Calamity Jane<\/em><\/p>\n

by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows<\/p>\n

HarperTeen, 2020. 520 pages.
\nReview written October 10, 2020, from a library book<\/p>\n

This is the third book by \u201cThe Lady Janies\u201d about a historical (or fictional) Jane retold with a paranormal twist. The first two \u2013 My Lady Jane<\/a><\/em> about Lady Jane Grey and My Plain Jane<\/a><\/em> about Jane Eyre \u2013 I was very familiar with the stories they were based on, and especially enjoyed the way they’d been shifted. I was not very familiar at all with the life of Calamity Jane of the Old West, so that made the book not quite as much fun.<\/p>\n

At first, I felt like it was all melodramatic and silly. Then I remembered that it\u2019s intentionally melodramatic and silly, and I settled in and enjoyed it. <\/p>\n

The twist they put into this story was that Wild Bill Hickok and his Wild West show featuring Calamity Jane were werewolf hunters as well. So this is the Old West with werewolves. And we\u2019ve got an evil werewolf, the Alpha, who\u2019s forming a Pack of werewolves who follow the Alpha in wickedness. And Wild Bill and Calamity Jane and Annie Oakley and Frank Butler the Pistol Prince all get involved in a wild adventure with the Alpha as the adversary. But we do have a twist that not all werewolves are bad. If you get bitten, you don’t have to prey on others when the moon is full.<\/p>\n

And it includes trick shooting and bull whip manipulations and plenty of romance.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s more silly fun. This time in the Wild West.<\/p>\n

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