I really looked forward to the continuation of the Boston Jane series by Jennifer Holm, having really liked the first book. And Wilderness Days held up to my expectations. The story was pretty simple — there’s a man, Jehu, who’s in love with Jane, if she wasn’t too dense and stubborn to realize it, which she does over the course of the book. It’s a good little romance, withe some adventure thrown in (there’s a bit of a far-fetched plot with a murderer on the loose that she, Jehu and an Chinook friend have to track down; it’s really just an excuse to get Jane in close quarters with Jehu).
However, I think Holm must have run out of plot for the third book. She brought back a “nemisis” from the first book, Sally, who’s a real witch of a woman. Sally comes to Shoalwater Bay and literally makes Jane’s life miserable, turning everyone in the town against Jane. In true form, Jane overcomes all (in a really stupid way, though) and ends up happily ever after. The book left me peevish, though. I ranted about it for a while, until I realized it’s a high school book. (It is youth fiction after all.) Everything (pretty much) could be lifted up and set in a modern high school and no one would be the wiser. So, I guess, if I was a 12-14 year old girl, it might just be a better book.
Too bad I’m not.
The Book Nut 
ok, so you say you love the first and second, but then say you loved the third at first and then was dissapionted. then you say that if yo were a 12-14 you would love it, and finish with “to bad im not.” what? in case you didn’t know, this is a childrens book! i loved this book, i loved the romance and the final finsh of sally and will. if you were expecting a masterpeice, don’t read a kids book. not to be rude.
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