While Kate was brought up here, she has only spent the last 14 months living alone on her homestead. Kate Shugak is an Aleut woman in her early thirties living on an inherited homestead in Alaska on the outskirts of Niniltna, which is itself on the edge of “The Park” – a massive tract of land with nary a tourist to be seen. In Dana Stabenow’s Kate Shugak, I found someone confident, unapologetic and unashamed. Yet, they can be soft and flawed and deeply human. Then began a – largely disastrous – deep dive into Amazon, seeking out women who were first and foremost independent agents: they make choices based on their own internal moral compass and are not swayed by external pressures. Hilton showed me how wrong I was on that count. As an ardent fan of Killing Eve, I thought it was the protagonist’s psychopathy in Stone’s book which made Jane so compelling, but reading Maestra by L. The inferno it produced could only be fed with books that featured that same kind of enigmatic female protagonists. Reading Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone was the spark to my powder keg. TW/CW for series: murder, abuse, domestic violence, animal abuse, sexual abuse, child abuse.
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