Loved itAnd I really enjoy it. So yeah, love Lone Woman.
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Lone Women (2023)
Others: Mostly positive Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It’s locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear. The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land for those who can tame it—except that Adelaide isn’t alone. And the secret she’s tried so desperately to lock away might be the only thing that will help her survive the harsh territory.
- ISBN:
- 9780525512080
- Length:
- 275 pages
Genres: fantasy, horror, mystery, historical fiction
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Loved it
Loved itThis was just a really thrilling, wonderful read.
NeutralLone Women I've read. I gave it a three. This is another historical one.
Loved itthis just hit all the checkboxes all the marks for me I love Victor Laval as an author
MixedI could recommend this it's I just did not think this was one of his best disenfranchised great female protagonist has some kind of curse has to flee your home great historical fiction with a magical realism twist in there bordering on low fantasy