Critical Monkey entry #3: Jake and the Kid - prairie nostalgia

It's been a little while for me to sufficiently recover for my third entry in Critical Monkey; On my initial outing, Stephanie Meyer blinded me by throwing sparkly dust in my eyes, and then on the second, Chuck Norris roundhouse-kicked my medulla into paste.

So, I've decided to walk away from books I was pretty sure I'd hate anyway, and move on to something a little more high-end; a Canadian classic, one of those books you;re supposed to read if you want to call yourself an authentic Canadian ...