She doesn’t turn her head when a certain cowboy walks by, she doesn’t long for a pretty dress and she certainly doesn’t pine away for someone to take care of her. From the moment we meet her she is solely focused on her quest for revenge, to the point of being one dimensional as a character. It was grittier than I expected for a young adult novel. Vengeance Road is what I would consider to be a classic western. I have not read many westerns in my life. But as Kate gets closer to the secrets about her family, a startling truth becomes clear: some men will stop at nothing to get their hands on gold, and Kate’s quest for revenge may prove fatal. What she finds are untrustworthy strangers, endless dust and heat, and a surprising band of allies, among them a young Apache girl and a pair of stubborn brothers who refuse to quit riding in her shadow. When her father is murdered for a journal revealing the location of a hidden gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers-and justice.
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