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Summary: 5 star sequel!
Review: "Boston Jane Series: Wilderness Days" was a very good sequel to "Boston Jane: An Adventure" and not at all disappointing. The only disappointing part was that it ended! The characters have the same feel, and Holm was not afraid to break the teen barrier and give some "adult" situations. Although, at times I found everyone a little too modern. I cannot wait for the third installment - I recommend.
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Summary: Excellent Follow-up...
Review: After the rather unsatisfactory ending of the original Boston Jane, I was understandably thrilled to discover there was a sequel. This book is as good as the first, if not better. The characterizations really stood out in particular; Jane was fun and interesting as ever. I could relate to her in many ways, and I loved the realistic way she was portrayed, exactly how a teenage girl thinks! After many months spent in the company of a group of smelly men who have by now become her friends, Jane begins to at last think that perhaps she will thrive in the wilderness. But all of her newfound happiness is abruptly shattered when she recieves news that someone she cares deeply about has died in her absense, and to make matters worse, the sudden arrival of an apsolutely perfect "lady" throws her off balance yet again... This was a truly great story, which explored in greater detail many of the characters we've come to love, as well as carrying a more concrete plot than the previous one. I'd recommend this book to anyone over the age of eleven of twelve.
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Summary: Boston Jane Supergirl
Review: Boston Jane: Wilderness Days is the second part in a series of novels written about a teenage girl who follows her betrothed to the wilderness of the Washington Territory from Philadelphia, only to find out when she gets there that he is already married. She is too stubborn to leave and so she stays in the wilderness with a bunch of men and has a bunch of fantastic adventures. The story is told in the first person like you are reading a letter of a journal, but the text is not in a letter or journal format. Boston Jane lives in a settlement with only men and in exchange for lodging, she does the mending and the cooking for the settlement. Jane is preoccupied with the men not thinking of her as a lady and is consumed with what she was taught at a finishing school about how to be a lady. The problem is that she never acts like a lady. This particular volume of the Boston Jane saga follows Jane on a quest to warn her crusty landlord that someone who he wronged long ago is trying to kill him. What makes this story confusing is that the characters in the story can not decide whether the threat is real, whether the stalker is a ghost, or whether he is a real man who is not a threat. Also to create more friction, another woman arrives in the settlement and is treated like a lady, inflaming Jane with jealousy. Boston Jane: Wilderness Days is an entirely fantastical book. It is action-packed and there is always something going on. Unfortunately, this makes the book very choppy and difficult to follow. Events are happening so rapidly that it is hard to believe that all of the things going on would actually happen to one girl. She would have to be Supergirl. The events are so fantastical and on such a grand scale that it is next to impossible to believe that all of this would be going on in one little village to one girl. Holm, while making it easy to understand the characters and slip into Jane's mind, makes Jane such an inconsistent character that is really difficult to believe that Jane would be so inconsistent. Jane comes off as a tough, practical, moral, proper, and strong willed character. This makes the inconsistencies in character of Jane extremely magnified. One such example is her instant end to jealousy of the other woman in the settlement just because something bad had happened to her in the past. Human nature is not generally so forgiving. Also troubling is the love story that develops between Jane and a sailor. The reader gets so frustrating with Jane that it is almost painful to read. The inconsistencies in the character are somewhat lessoned by the great descriptions of emotions and beautiful descriptions of the setting of the novel. It is also evident that Holm did a lot of research to portray the setting and the Native Americans of the area correctly. Boston Jane: Wilderness Days is a great adventure story about pioneer times, but it takes such liberties with character, the way people would have acted, and events that would happen to people that children would need to be told of these inconsistencies. The reader can only hope that the third installment in the series (which will undoubtedly be written) will iron out these inconsistencies and provide for a smoothly written, realistic pioneer tale of adventure.
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Summary: AWESOME
Review: Hey I'm Natalie and I thought that this book was wonderful. A wonderful book on it's own and a wonderful sequal to the first one Boston Jane:An Adventure. I don't suggest reading it on it's own though. Well written, it may be kind of easy for teens but they will like as well since it also has a somewhat romantic plot interwoven into it.
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Summary: A nice easy read
Review: I found this story of "Boston" Jane a fast paced easy and interesting read. This was the first Jane story that I have read, but I found it understandable despite the fact that it was not the first book in the series. The character Jane describes in first person her experiences in the NorthWest pre-major migration. She seemed realistic and strong. I was sick of reading about girls my age who found love and just kissed the guy and that was it. In this story, Jane is unsure of her love for a certain sailor (who the reader knows to be the perfect match throughout the novel) but in the end gets together with him. Janes strong will probably was not historically accurate, but it made for a great read.
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Summary: reveiw of good book!
Review: i realy loved this bok! I even read 2 books boston jane. jane is brave to stay on the islind with on friend.
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Summary: reveiw of good book!
Review: In the second book of the Boston Jane Trilogy, Miss Jane Peck must continue to survive in wilderness of Shoalwater Bay. She must deal with a new 'lady', who gets better treatment than Jane ever did. Not only that, but she goes on a dangerous manhunt to catch a murderer, and experiences a blossoming new romance. Jane learns what makes a true gentleman and also about the gift of gratitude.
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Summary: One of the Greatest Books of all Time
Review: This book is one of the greatest books of all time! It includes all of the elements I love in books- romance, adventure, and a happy ending. The world has never seen anything as wonderful as Boston Jane: Wilderness Days. It is my favorite book in the series! Jennifer L. Holm is a genius!
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Summary: Boston Jane: Wilderness days
Review: This is a great book 2nd in a serse, adventure,Romance, and wild animals. It's set in the 1850's, and is told from the view of Jane Peck, 16, a finishing school graduate with eddictate issues and apparently commetment issues, who has traveled across the contient to marry her childhood idol, but she had now found that he only wanted to marry her so he could get twice the land but when she showed up she found she had been dumped by her fiancee' for another woman, and is left stranded in the wilderness. soon after the first blow she recieves a letter from her father mailed after his death, feeling more lost and alone, she soon falls into a depression, she resents herself and the local men and the newest arrival a young woman by the name of Mrs Frink, who seems gracious and Charming, she seems like everything that irritates Jane she seems perfect and gets better treatment form the locals than Jane ever did, also she seems to reject the right guy, Jehu the young sailor who seems to be in love with her, she believes his intentions are wrong and that he could never be the right guy for her (of course we know he is the right guy!) and now she didn't even have the money to leave the bay then when all seems lost to Jane, she meets a gentlemen who comes around asking for her protector Mr Russell after the men have left for a couple of days, he gives her a gold watch to pay for her journey to Philedelphia. But then Jane learns that his intentions are to kill Mr Russell, now she must travel across the wilderness to stop him with jehu and her Native American freind Keer-ukso before he murders Mr Russell. this was a great book, a sure page turner, although her nagging does get a little irritating at times, but she is interesting and it's humorous, Jennifer L Holm as always keeps us guessing till the end and leaves us satisfied at the end, I can't wait till the third installment of the Boston Jane serise Boston Jane: the claim; coming in march 2004
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