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I am a 33-year-old who is often drawn to the stories in the YA genre, but tries to avoid anything that waters down the plot or speaks down to the reader. I've had enough experiences with highly rated but disappointing YA books that I always think twice before buying from that genre. However, the thought of a historical fantasy set in the American gold rush era is so unique that I couldn't pass it up, and am so glad I didn't. The author takes the first few chapters to set the scene before getting into the adventure. She absolutely researched the wild frontier and the story was so much richer for it. The novel really hits its stride when Lee joins the wagon train to go West, and we see all the hard work and risk that choice required of anyone who chose it. Towards the end we even get to see a stark contrast of gender roles of the era, and I felt this section of the story was the most intriguing. It was perfect to leave on that high point. Can't wait to read the next one!


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Walk on Earth a Stranger Gold Seer Trilogy Rae Carson Books Reviews

Leah Westfall has a secret the she and her parents have kept hidden from everyone they know in Georgia. Lee can sense gold whether it's a piece of jewelry, a stray nugget, or veins of gold deep in the earth. Lee's parents have always feared Lee's magic could lead to trouble for her and their family.

They were right.

In January 1849 Lee's life changes forever and, for the first time, she is completely alone in the world. Even her best friend, Jefferson, has left her behind to chase the promise of gold and a fresh start in California

With nothing left to keep her in Georgia and every reason to leave, Lee disguises herself as a boy and sets out to make her own way west and hopefully find her best friend along the way.

The road to California won't be easy. With so many people hoping to find gold and security, Lee is sure her witchy ways will give her an edge. If she can make it that far. After losing so much, and with so long to go, Lee will have to decide who she can trust and who she wants to be in Walk on Earth a Stranger (2015) by Rae Carson.

Walk on Earth a Stranger is the first book in Carson's Gold Seer Trilogy. Because this book focuses heavily on Lee's journey to California it does offer a contained story and can easily be read on its own.

While Walk on Earth a Stranger is very much in the same vein as traditional westerns, it does not offer a sanitized or romanticized version of the west as characters grapple with racism, sexism, and the physical dangers on the trail while also beginning to grasp the enormous change this great movement of people will bring to the western territories of the United States.

Although Lee has a magical ability to find gold, Walk on Earth a Stranger is a historical novel at its core, and extremely well-done at that. Carson has surpassed herself in this well-researched and nuanced novel that covers so many details and perspectives of the 1849 gold rush. Lee falls in with a ragtag cast of characters on her travels west. This varied and diverse group add a lot of dimension to what is already a very rich story.

Lee's first person narration brings the landscape and the era to life as she makes her long trek from Georgia to California. Against the vivid backdrop of her travels, Lee's story is often quite introspective as she ponders her own place in the world and her future out west.

Lee's journey to find herself while also finding her way to a new life is riveting and empowering. Walk on Earth a Stranger perfectly captures the freedom and possibility that can come with following gold west at a time when picking a new identity was as easy as adopting a new name. Walk on Earth a Stranger also returns, again and again, to the idea of choice as Lee is left to choose who she wants to be, and also who she wants beside her, on the long road ahead. A stunning start to a series that is sure to be gold for many readers.

I can't recommend this book highly enough.
I’ve had this book sitting on my shelf for over a year. To be perfectly honest, approximately 90% of my reason for buying this book was because of its cover (despite what they say, a good book usually has a good cover). Still, sometimes I let books sit… oddly enough, those are the ones I usually like the best.

Gold Seer is a breath of fresh air. I’ve read a lot of books in my time, and several involving a “kickass” female “heroine” that’s supposed to impress the pants off me. I’m usually disappointed and annoyed; on few occasions I’m happily impressed (such as in Graceling, Ashfall, and Finnikin of the Rock). This was one of those few occasions. Lee Westfall doesn’t complain, doesn’t over indulge, and doesn’t boast. Instead of talking about it—she proves it. Can she shoot better than a man? She proves it. Can she survive on her own? She proves it.

And don’t get me wrong. This book is western travel all throughout and you’ll read a fair amount about riding horses and driving carts. But the travel is broken up with spurts of action and meaningful character development that really make this story sing.

Buy it for the cover (because it's gorgeous), keep it for the content. 5/5.
I am a 33-year-old who is often drawn to the stories in the YA genre, but tries to avoid anything that waters down the plot or speaks down to the reader. I've had enough experiences with highly rated but disappointing YA books that I always think twice before buying from that genre. However, the thought of a historical fantasy set in the American gold rush era is so unique that I couldn't pass it up, and am so glad I didn't. The author takes the first few chapters to set the scene before getting into the adventure. She absolutely researched the wild frontier and the story was so much richer for it. The novel really hits its stride when Lee joins the wagon train to go West, and we see all the hard work and risk that choice required of anyone who chose it. Towards the end we even get to see a stark contrast of gender roles of the era, and I felt this section of the story was the most intriguing. It was perfect to leave on that high point. Can't wait to read the next one!