from jennybeast

An excellent continuation of Leah Westfall's story, with more edge of the seat adventures and challenges to finding her way free of her terrible Uncle Hiram. I appreciate that the book stays true to the bleak reality for women in 1800s America (they are effectively property) and that it highlight...

from bell7

When we last left Leah Westfall, she'd reached California with a small band of the wagon train she'd started out with from Georgia. Now, her friend Jefferson knows her secret - that she can sense gold - and she decides to tell her newfound family as well, because their lives are on the line as he...

from krau0098

I didn't like this quite as much as the first book (not as much adventure). It was still a very good book, very engaging and entertaining. The book deals more with Lee and her fellow travelers settling down in California and claiming a stake as their own; they end up starting a town that they nam...

from foggidawn

Leah Westfall and her friends may have made it to California, but they haven't struck it rich yet . . . and Leah's uncle Hiram Westfall is still out there searching for Leah and planning to use her gold sense for his own gain. This second book in the series is nearly as good as the first. The pac...

from kaylaraeintheway

It's been almost a year since I read "Walk on Earth a Stranger", the first book in Rae Carson's Gold Seer series, and I was worried I would have some trouble remembering characters or events that happened in that book. However, Carson does a good job with subtly reminding the reader of the people...