My Calamity Jane

Author: Cynthia Hand

Young Adult Fiction                                      

Reviewed by Cathy - SCRL Director                                                 

Don’t read this book while drinking coffee because at any given time you are going to laugh out loud and you are going to lose it!  Loosely based on the historical life of Calamity Jane this is the third in the “The Lady Janies” series.  Never taking no for an answer gets Jane more than she bargained for when she is hot on the trail of a clan of rogue werewolves, also known a garous.  With her wild and sometimes outlaw friend, Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane cavorts through 1867 America and finds all sorts of troubles along the way. 

I read/listened this book first before the others in the series by accident.  I downloaded it to my phone through Libby and couldn’t stop listening to it.  As a young adult book it was refreshingly funny.  The fantastical elements in it (garous and talking dogs) didn’t detract from the story because the women characters were so great.  

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