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The Woman Who Loved Jesse JamesThe Woman Who Loved Jesse James by Cindi Myers
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

3.5 stars

When I was a young girl, I had strange goals and dreams.  At one point in time, I wanted to be a truck driver (this was after watching Smokey and the Bandit).  As I got older, I dreamed of being a mafia wife.  All through those times, though, I had a strange obsession with Jesse James and the James Gang.  I don't know where I first heard of him, but I was smitten.  I guess it was kind of like the dream of being a mafia wife...mysterious and dangerous and on the wrong side of the law.

Well, if I hadn't been in love with Jesse James before, this book would have done it for me.  This was the story of Jesse and his wife, Zee.  It was a fictionalized telling of their life, with a dash of truth thrown in.  The author portrayed Jesse as a loving, caring man who valued his wife and family, even though he had an adventurous soul and couldn't be happy living a normal life.

There were places were the story dragged and the spelling of Jesse's name went back and forth between "Jesse" and "Jessie".  Zee was a huge pushover who lived with her head in the clouds actively denying what Jesse did while he was away from her.  Those are the reasons for the 3.5 stars.


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