Audiobook Review - Tough Luck

Title: Tough Luck

Author: Sandra Dallas

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Genre: Historical Fiction

{Thank you @macmillan.audio for the #gifted audiobook!  It’s narrated by Mia Hutchinson-Shaw and was a lot of fun!}

“But you’ll get more cooperation with kindness than meanness. I believe that’s a lesson for life.  With mules and with folks, both.”

🤠1863

🤠 Homage to True Grit

🤠 Adventures + Obstacles

🤠 Traveling West for Gold

🤠 A Teen Searching for her Father

🤠 Learning to Trust People + Patience 

My gosh was this a fun little Western Adventure book!  While it is an adult book, the main character is just fourteen, so I think this would work for YA readers too.  It’s a quick read at under 300 pages.

After their mother dies, Haidie Richards and her younger brother, Boots, are put to work in an orphanage. Their father left four years earlier to find a gold mine in Colorado Territory, and since then he’s sent only three letters. Still, Haidie is certain that he is alive, has struck gold, and will soon send for the

 Boots and Haidie, disguised as a boy, embark on a dangerous journey deep into Western territory. Along the way, Haidie learns fast not only how to handle mules, oxen, and greedy men, but also that you are better off in a community. Hers includes a card shark, independent “spinster” sisters, and a very fierce dog. Once she arrives in Colorado and finds out the truth about her father, Haidie will need all her new friends for a get-even plot worthy of The Sting.

A solid ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read!