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A review by rachelmerry_
Boston Jane: An Adventure by Jennifer L. Holm
4.0
Closer to a 3.5.
I loved loved this series as a preteen and this is the first time I’ve revisited it since then. I found Jane to be a lot less likable this time around, but I appreciated a lot more her development—I especially thought the author did a great job of challenging historical and contemporary racial bias in a story aimed toward a younger audience, and that she wove those perspectives into the story without making it feel like a revisionist history. I’m also going to throw out there that the pacing wasn’t great (the whole first third was a flashback and it seemed like…why is this a flashback instead of just the beginning of the story?) Anyway, for the audience and genre, I thought this was not quite brilliant, but very well done.
I loved loved this series as a preteen and this is the first time I’ve revisited it since then. I found Jane to be a lot less likable this time around, but I appreciated a lot more her development—I especially thought the author did a great job of challenging historical and contemporary racial bias in a story aimed toward a younger audience, and that she wove those perspectives into the story without making it feel like a revisionist history. I’m also going to throw out there that the pacing wasn’t great (the whole first third was a flashback and it seemed like…why is this a flashback instead of just the beginning of the story?) Anyway, for the audience and genre, I thought this was not quite brilliant, but very well done.