A Tyranny of Petticoats by Jessica Spotswood

However, I preferred the Dead Man’s Hand anthology for a better collection of weird westerns. My favorites were the weird westerns, with magic on the frontier.

I appreciate that each story has its own chapter, so even if they aren't titled, you know that clicking on a chapter will start you at the beginning of each short. I appreciated some of the ties to real life history, but often this felt like telling instead of showing a good short story does not require explanation. Also, there's padding for these already short stories, with an introduction to the anthology, and each author ending the story with a little insight into why they wrote the story.

A few stories have magic or myth, but most are straight fiction. Instead, the commonality is they feature strong gals and get progressively more political as the date ticks closer to the past century. I think it would have been easier for me to get behind these 15 stories, all between a half hour and an hour, if they'd been a little more connected by genre, tone or time period.

“The Whole World Is Watching” © 2015 by Robin Talley. “Pulse of the Panthers” © 2015 by Kekla Magoon. “City of Angels” © 2015 by Lindsay Smith. “Hard Times” © 2015 by Katherine Longshore. “Bonnie and Clyde” © 2015 by Saundra Mitchell. “The Color of the Sky” © 2015 by Elizabeth Gatland. “The Legendary Garrett Girls” © 2015 by Y. “Gold in the Roots of the Grass” © 2015 by Marissa Meyer. “The Red Raven Ball” © 2015 by Caroline Tung Richmond. “Madeleine’s Choice” © 2015 by Jessica Spotswood. Compilation and introduction © 2015 by Jessica Spotswood. P 2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Original book published by Candlewick Press 2016. The full copyright information can be found below: They're making their own way in often-hostile lands, using every weapon in their arsenals, facing down murderers and marriage proposals. They are monsters and mediums, bodyguards and barkeeps, screenwriters and schoolteachers, heiresses and hobos. Join fifteen of today's most talented writers of young adult literature on a thrill ride through history with American girls charting their own course. From an impressive sisterhood of YA writers comes an edge-of-your-seat anthology of historical fiction and fantasy featuring a diverse array of daring heroines.Ĭriss-cross America - on dogsleds and ships, stagecoaches and trains - from pirate ships off the coast of the Carolinas to the peace, love, and protests of 1960s Chicago.

A Tyranny of Petticoats by Jessica Spotswood