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A review by oddree13
Better Angels: A Kate Warne Adventure by Jeff Jensen, George Schall
3.0
3.5 stars
Meet Kate Warne - a trailblazing working woman trying to make a living and do some good in a tumultuous, sexist age, and who uncovers one of the first plots to assassinate President Lincoln making her America’s first female detective. Upon reading the summary I thought I was picking up a piece of historical fiction, and was delighted to find out it's a true one!
The graphic novel cuts between the past and future and centers around Lincoln's train ride from Illinois to Washington DC, as he stops between cities trying to endear himself to a divided nation. Kate, and her group of women detectives, uncover a plot to harm the would-be-president by using one of the biggest tools at their disposal - the underestimation of women.
The book does a great job of presenting how these women cultivated their skills and fought the confines society placed on them. By the end I was googling the biographies of these heroines, lamenting this sort of book wasn't in my school library when I was of book report age.
Meet Kate Warne - a trailblazing working woman trying to make a living and do some good in a tumultuous, sexist age, and who uncovers one of the first plots to assassinate President Lincoln making her America’s first female detective. Upon reading the summary I thought I was picking up a piece of historical fiction, and was delighted to find out it's a true one!
The graphic novel cuts between the past and future and centers around Lincoln's train ride from Illinois to Washington DC, as he stops between cities trying to endear himself to a divided nation. Kate, and her group of women detectives, uncover a plot to harm the would-be-president by using one of the biggest tools at their disposal - the underestimation of women.
The book does a great job of presenting how these women cultivated their skills and fought the confines society placed on them. By the end I was googling the biographies of these heroines, lamenting this sort of book wasn't in my school library when I was of book report age.