The Outlaw Trail By Dakota Chase
Genre: Time Travel, Young Adult,
Released: February 5, 2021
Publisher: Evil Plot Bunny Publishing
Series: Repeating History, Book 5
Length: 179 pages
Cover Design: Alexandria Corza
Ash and Grant got themselves into a whole load of magical trouble when they accidentally set fire to Merlin’s office and destroyed many items of historical significance. Merlin tasked them to go back in time and retrieve each of the artifacts they destroyed.
This time out, they’ve got their work cut out for them when Merlin sends them back to 1899, at the tail end of the wild, wild West. Their mission is to find none other than the infamous outlaw Butch Cassidy, and somehow get their hands on something near and dear to Butch’s heart – his Colt .45.
To do this, they must become outlaws themselves, and join up with Butch’s gang, the Wild Ones. They swiftly find out the real wild and woolly west is more stinky and dangerous than it is on any television show they’d ever seen. Not even Ash and Grant are sure they can pull off living on the wrong side of the law, especially during a time when justice was often served with a bullet, and the life expectancy for outlaws was notoriously short.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
Great story!
I think this is the first Young Adult story I’ve read since I was a teen – many, many, many years ago – and I have to say that I really enjoyed reading it. The Outlaw Trail is book 5 in the Repeating History series but it can be read as a standalone. There’s a prologue that tells you the history behind what Ash and Grant have done in the past and what they need to do now.
This isn’t a romance story but there are a few romantic bits in it. It seems like these two are still adjusting to their budding feelings for each other. (I’m not sure how their relationship has been up to this point since I haven’t read the other books, but there is only some chaste kissing in this book, which makes sense for a YA novel.) The way I interpreted what I read it seems like they will be having many more adventures together retrieving artifacts for Merlin, and presumably, more time for their feelings to develop.
The story was witty and humorous at times, serious at others and had me anxiously waiting for something to happen at least a time or two.
One passage had me cracking up. Ash and Grant are having dinner at the boarding house they are staying in and are commenting on the dinner they’ve been served:
“Sure is good, Molly.” Ash helped himself to a second piece of chicken. “Colonel Sanders has nothing on you.”
“Colonel who? Did he fight for the north or the south?” Red wanted to know.
Ash blinked, then realized Red was talking about the Civil War. “Uh, I don’t know. He just made really good chicken.”
“But not as good as Molly’s,” Grant added. He shot Ash a warning look, as if to tell Ash to watch the pop culture references before they had to start explaining what country Burger was king of.
Ash and Grant find out that living in the Old West isn’t nearly as much fun as it looks on TV or in movies. Things are really smelly and they miss indoor plumbing along with many other modern conveniences they are used to.
Since I’m not a history buff, I can’t speak to the accuracy of some of the historical things that happened in the story but it all made for good reading and it is, after all, fiction. I wouldn’t have a problem if it’s not really accurate but I’m betting that the author did her research and tried to be as accurate as the story would allow.
I’ve actually owned a copy of book one in this series, The Eye of Ra, for a couple of years; now I want to go back and read it and the other books in this series.
♥♥♥♥♥
O Factor: Sweet
Available to borrow with Kindle Unlimited.
Dakota Chase lives right on the border of Normal, with a Shar-Pei/Labrador mix breed that may or may not be a werewolf in disguise, and a husband who definitely isn’t a werewolf even though he’s been known to be shaggy, and howl from time to time. She loves to write fantasy and paranormal and is highly allergic to math.
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