A Claim of Her Own

Author: Stephanie Grace Whitson

Genre: Romance, adventure

My rating on a 1-10 scale: 9

Type: Fiction

Number of pages: 318

Time period: 1800's, Gold Rush

Main characters: Mattie, Aron, Tom

Exciting events: Definitely. It's full of them.

Passage from book: "Walking down the main street in Deadwood is like stepping onto hell's front porch. It's frenzied and filthy, and it's the last place on earth a man would want to bring any woman he cared about. Be patient. I know it's hard,  but you have to trust me about the timing." Mattie had thought Dillon was just trying to scare her when he wrote that...

My overall opinion: It was a good one! I enjoyed it a lot. Oh, and I said it was Gold Rush, but it's in the Dakotas, not California.

Gold Rush Prodigal

Author: Brock and Bodie Thoene

Genre: Adventure, western

Series: Saga of the Sierras

Number in series: 3rd

My rating on a 1-10 scale: 8.5

Type: Fiction

Number of pages: 223

Time period: 1800's, Gold Rush

Main characters: David, Keo, Strawfoot

Exciting events: Capture!!!!

Passage from book: His hands tied together, David was placed back on the black horse and his feet bound underneath its belly. If he slid off, he could certainly be trampled to death......The black horse fell over on its side and lay still for a moment. Its corpse then began a slow slide down into the canyon, dragging David's bound form along with it...ahead lay the lip of a dropoff into a hundred foot crevice....Gunshots tore into the ground near him, and one struck him in the thigh, making him cry out.

My overall opinion: Such an exciting story this was! I had the genre as western, but I changed it to adventure, though I suppose it is part western. Okay, both. :) The main character is part of the gold rush, sails on a whale ship, and encounters a terrible and insane captain. Very exciting.