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Title: Waiting for a Comet
Subtitle: Jo Harper, Book 1
Author: Richard Prosch
Narrator: Ashley Lucas
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-07-16
Publisher: Lohman Hills Creative
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
During the long, hot spring of 1910 it seemed all 12-year-old Jo Harper could do was wait. Wait for her father, wait for her friends, wait for the comet that might appear in the sky and wipe out the whole town of Willowby, Wyoming, once and for all. But when Wild West legend Abby Drake arrives in town lugging an orphaned baby calf, an old-fashioned revolver, and a mystery shrouded with superstition, it's up to Jo to take action. Why is Abby in town? Who is she after? And what secrets can Jo coax out of her own arch enemy, Emily Bly?
Action, humor, and real-life history combine for an exciting mystery about one girl's summertime quest for family, friendship, and justice on the wind-burnt Wyoming range at the dawn of a new century.
Members Reviews:
Impetuous Nature
The first book in the Jo Harper series by Richard Prosch. Jo is twelve years old in 1910. The west may not be quite as wild and woolly as it had been twenty-five years back, but it's still full of excitement and Jo Harper is a spitfire ready to tackle whatever comes her way. In this book, Jo teams up with Abby Drake, a famous law woman of the west who has grown old but hasn't given up her urge for justice, in a case involving rustled cattle. While Halley's Comet fills the sky overhead, Jo uses her wits and "impetuous nature" to help Abby solve the mystery.
What a fun story, ideal for younger readers but still just perfect for some of us older readers too. I very much enjoyed it and will be reading others in this series.
This Comet Is Worth The Wait
Generally speaking, I don't read a lot of YA titles. But one of my "automatic" reads is anything carrying the Richard Prosch byline. So when Prosch writes a YA novella, there I am flipping the pages (or, to be totally accurate, tabbing the forward arrow button on my Kindle reader) and congratulating myself for expanding my reading zone a bit.
Simply put, WAITING FOR A COMET is a delight. Part Mark Twain, part Rooster Cogburn, a dose of H.G. Wells, and all Prosch. The time is 1910, the setting this time around (instead of Prosch's favorite setting of Nebraska) is the small town of Willowby, Wyoming.
Rambunctious, 12-year-old Jo Harper, daughter of the town's newspaper editor/publisher is left to her own devices during most summer days while her father puts in long hours to get the paper out on time. Jo, often accompanied by her pal Frog, has no trouble finding adventures and mischief to fill her time. But this summer, all of that is being made easier for her. First off, there is the pending arrival of Halley's Comet, destined â according to doomsayers â to come streaking across the sky leaving a vapor trail of cyanide that will kill multitudes of earthlings. But ahead of that, arriving in Willowby unheralded yet still bigger than life and demanding almost as much attention as the comet, is Abigail Drake, a former sharpshooter with Buffalo Bill's Wild West and more recently a pistol-packing, legendary, town-taming marshal.
Abby and Jo hit it off right away and, before the summer is through, the adventure they rustle up together rival even the arrival of the comet.
This is a crackerjack of a yarn, richly detailed, filled with colorful characters, quirky humor, and all told in Prosch's distinct, subtly stylistic style.
