Rating 3.5 stars

I really enjoyed these stories! I am not a big fan of short stories and novellas but I wanted to give this a try because:
a. look at that cover
b. women in history

While these stories are fiction, the authors have done research and taken real people and events which they mixed and morphed into their stories. I really didn't know anything about these events and time periods so it was a really cool experience.

This book is jammed FULL of diversity! Not just the women but sexual orientation, race, class system, etc. You would not believe how hard it is to find fictional books with indigenous characters that are not about residential schools. While they are only a couple of the stories with this representation and they are relatively small roles...it's a start to get them more representation in fiction and YA.

My rating is lower simply because they were short stories. I would've enjoyed some of these to be fleshed out more or made into a stand alone. As soon as I would get into a story, it had an abrupt end which I tend to find annoying. For that reason, I used the audiobook to follow along to.

I think the topics covered and the short length will make me want to re-read this book every once and a while and pass along to my children if I ever have some.