Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman is definitely one of the highlights of 2015 with its unique genre, valiant main character and entertaining theme. I really appreciated this fact, because it makes the book more realistic. But in Vengeance Road, it is understandable that Kate is angry and upset about her father’s murder and wants her vengeance.

In many other YA books, revenge stories are about girls getting back at their ex-boyfriends just because they can. What is interesting about this book is that Kate is actually angry for a good reason. I am a big fan of books that have to do with vengeance and revenge, and boy does this one have a lot of it. One of the big themes in the book is, or course, vengeance. Kate is just so adventurous and the perfect character for a book like Vengeance Road. She isn’t a big fan of constricting dresses and having to please men anyways. So, she dresses up as a boy to complete her mission, which works out pretty well for her. In the time period of this book, women weren’t taken very seriously, and neither is Kate. She is brave and loyal to her father, desperate to get her revenge after he is killed.

Kate is such a wonderful main character for Vengeance Road. Even the dialect is western, y’all! ❀ Wonderful Main Character This book was definitely a good start to the western genre for me, because it’s got everything that I would associate with the wild west: gold, pistols, horses, saloons, everything. It is a western, which I have never read before. I really enjoyed the genre of this story. Review: Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman ❀ A Western Story This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

❃ I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. In the spirit of 'True Grit',' 'acclaimed young adult novelist Erin Bowman brings to life the unpredictable and cutthroat days of the Wild West. When her father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, eighteen year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers-and justice.

Vengeance road by erin bowman