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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Lady Outlaw: Fun Premise Marred By Faulty Execution
1:00 AM
(Image from Barnes & Noble)


The longer the two work together, the closer Jennie and Caleb become. As their friendship deepens into something more, Jennie knows she has to come clean about her secret Robin Hood-ing. But she can't. Not until she scrapes up enough cash to stave off foreclosure. She can't lose the ranch, not after she's sold her soul to the devil in order to keep it. And yet, she can't stand to keep things from the kind, trusting Caleb. If Jennie tells him the truth, though, she knows she'll lose him forever. Caught between the love of her land and the growing feelings she has for Caleb, Jennie must make an impossible choice: give up her thieving ways, and thus her ranch, or lose the only man she's ever loved.
Fun premise, right? I think so, too. Lady Outlaw, a debut novel by Stacy Henrie, sounds like a lively story, just brimming with adventure and charm. And it is. Kind of. The problem for me exists in the build-up—Henrie launches right into Jennie's problem without giving the reader a lot of background. We don't really understand what kind of person our heroine is or how much her land means to her before she goes about stealing other people's money to save herself. Thus, I think Jennie comes off as not just immoral, but also prideful and unsympathetic. Personally, I just didn't care for her all that much. So, there was that. Plus, the story's far-fetched, the plot contrived and the writing only so-so. Again, I think the premise has a lot of promise—it's the execution that's the problem. Overall, Lady Outlaw tells a fun, entertaining adventure story. But, it's got issues. So, for me, the novel ended up being just okay.
(Readalikes: Hm, I can't think of anything. Can you?)
Grade: C
If this were a movie, it would be rated: PG for violence and scenes of peril
To the FTC, with love: I bought an e-copy of Lady Outlaw from Amazon with a portion of the millions I make from my lucrative career as a book blogger. Ha ha.
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