4.5 Stars - I recommend if you enjoy historical fiction, wild west adventures, and strong female characters. You'll be rooting for Etta throughout the entire book.

This book follows a young woman who is put into a make-shift witness protection program and sent out West. She is now called Etta and spends time as a Harvey Girl, an outlaw, a friend to Eleanor Roosevelt, a Wild West Show Girl, and "wife" to the Sundance Kid. While much of this book is imagined (no one knew much at the real Etta!), it's very interesting to read and richly imagined.

Overall I didn't know what to expect with this book, but I liked it a lot! :) I thought all of the pieces of the story were very detailed and well researched even if they were fictional. Because I don't read a lot of Westerns, or even a ton of historical fiction I was worried that this book might drag a little bit, but I did not find that to be the case at all. I really liked the way that it was written, broken up into chunks ranging form narrative, to diary entries, newspaper articles or police memos, to letters. This formatting gave the reader different points of view and lots of context for the situations going on in the book. I really enjoyed that! The only thing that was kind of weird for me was that it got a little bit socialist. Some of it made sense, but some of it seemed like a stretch. Overall not enough to hugely detract from the book for me.

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4.5 Solid Stars - really interesting the imagined life of a mystery woman.