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A review by bargainsleuth
The Secret of Shadow Ranch by Carolyn Keene
4.0
This Revised Text of Nancy Drew is more appealing to me than the Original Text. Nancy, Bess, and George all act the way I remember. Nancy is not killing animals with a revolver, like she does in the original, and George is not a goof-up. This time there are two mysteries, just as the original had two mysteries, and of course, as with the original, the mysteries are interrelated and woven through the story that way. In the original, the mysteries only came together at the end in a far-fetched way.
As with most of the RT Nancy's, there's lots of descriptions of the pretty clothes and what they ate. Even though the RTs were revised in part to get rid of racial stereotypes found in the originals, I notice they are not above a little cultural appropriation when the girls buy pretty "Indian squaw dresses" for the big dance. Despite that, I thought this story was more plausible than the original, and therefore a better story.
As with most of the RT Nancy's, there's lots of descriptions of the pretty clothes and what they ate. Even though the RTs were revised in part to get rid of racial stereotypes found in the originals, I notice they are not above a little cultural appropriation when the girls buy pretty "Indian squaw dresses" for the big dance. Despite that, I thought this story was more plausible than the original, and therefore a better story.