Rating: 
Summary: Overall Okay Book
Review: This book is not great but it will keep you reading until the end. The first chapter piques your interest because of the incongruousness of the situation--a group of theives allowed to kidnap a boy from a crowded train because the passengers thought it was a performance. Things like this and the bits of humor throughout keeps you flipping the pages. The shortness of the book helps too, though. I read it in three hours and I don't read all that fast.
Brown captures the love a mother has for her child beautifully. One of my favorite parts was when Miranda said if you have to kill me, don't do it in front of my son. Brown also captures a child's feelings well. How a child can change from happiness (at being kidnapped) to terror because his mother is afraid but then his quick trust (for his captor).
However, I had to deduct the two stars because I really did not like Hawk. He kept humiliating her, forcing himself on her, and taking advantage of the love Miranda had for her child. To get Miranda to comply to everything, Hawk threatened her with taking her child away. Moreover, I could not feel the spark between the two characters or understand how Miranda could fall for him in the first place when he put her child's life in danger.
Better to get this book from the library than to actually buy it.
Rating:
Summary: An 'okay' read...hero is too unlikeable....
Review: This is a early book from Ms. Brown and written in the 80's for those out there who were curious. The hero was what made me not like this story as much as I would've.
He was very broody and unlikeable in his manner and personality. I think she was trying to portray him as being very mysterious and lost, but he just came off as mean and illogical.
His whole reason being that his father sold some land for money for the reservation and the people swindled him and closed down a silver mine that the reservation needed. The hero, Hawk, is determined to get it back, even if it means kidnapping a woman and her child to force the hand of the senator.
Hawk is so angry for the plight of his people that he mistreats the woman and pretty much emotionally abuses her simply because she is white. (Mind you, he isn't all Native American and he even went to a big college in the city so the hate doesn't make sense in the scheme of things.)
Miranda the heroine tries to explain to him that she isnt married to the senator any longer and they hate one another, so he wont help her. Hawk doesn't see it that way and continues on the collision course.
Love blooms between the two and they find themselves trying to save the mine and themselves. It was an okay read, but Hawk's mistrust and downright hate for white people chilled the book to the point of a mutual hate for the hero from the reader. The ending didn't make him any better a person in my eyes and just confirmed my dislike. My sympathies are with Miranda and her son for putting up with the guy. Tracy Talley~@
Rating:
Summary: An 'okay' read...hero is too unlikeable....
Review: This is a early book from Ms. Brown and written in the 80's for those out there who were curious. The hero was what made me not like this story as much as I would've.
He was very broody and unlikeable in his manner and personality. I think she was trying to portray him as being very mysterious and lost, but he just came off as mean and illogical.
His whole reason being that his father sold some land for money for the reservation and the people swindled him and closed down a silver mine that the reservation needed. The hero, Hawk, is determined to get it back, even if it means kidnapping a woman and her child to force the hand of the senator.
Hawk is so angry for the plight of his people that he mistreats the woman and pretty much emotionally abuses her simply because she is white. (Mind you, he isn't all Native American and he even went to a big college in the city so the hate doesn't make sense in the scheme of things.)
Miranda the heroine tries to explain to him that she isnt married to the senator any longer and they hate one another, so he wont help her. Hawk doesn't see it that way and continues on the collision course.
Love blooms between the two and they find themselves trying to save the mine and themselves. It was an okay read, but Hawk's mistrust and downright hate for white people chilled the book to the point of a mutual hate for the hero from the reader. The ending didn't make him any better a person in my eyes and just confirmed my dislike. My sympathies are with Miranda and her son for putting up with the guy. Tracy Talley~@
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Summary: A typical "held against her will by soon-to-be-lover" tale
Review: This is an average contribution to the fantasy world of women captured by a rugged, physically stunning speciman of manhood who is at first gruff and tortuous but who gradually becomes the woman's dream lover. I've read more suspenseful capture-fantasies, but this one is still a good read. I liked the incorporation of Native Americans in a contemporary setting, although Hawk O'Toole seems a bit flat as a character. The six-year old Scott was my favorite character because he is both realistic and entertaining.
Rating: 
Summary: Sizzling Emotional Twister
Review: This is Definitely a top 10 Romance Reads. Randy and Hawke sizzle from the very beginning. Between Hawkes determination to do what is right for his people and also what is right morally. Randy must protect her son at all costs and her heart is lost to what she believes to be a very cold hearted man. Randy's young son shows us Hawke has a heart which bleeds red.
Great as usual Sandra Brown! I loved it and had to finish it all in one night. Thank you!
Rating: 
Summary: Should be titled "The Pathetic"
Review: This is probably the worst of Sandra's books. The kidnapper treats the kidnapped woman like garbage, calls her a slut, insults her motherhood and subjects her to even more mental cruelty and... she can't wait to "make a passionate love to him" in return. What a BS. Quarter way into the book, not only will you know the ending but you'll be disgusted. Save your money - this one isn't worth a buck.
Rating:
Summary: LOVED THIS BOOK
Review: This was a very first book by Sandra Brown. I loved it. Hawk was jerk in the beginning, but ended up redeeming himself by the end. He was man tormented by many issues revolving around his native american heritage. If you like tortured heroes, you will love this book
Rating:
Summary: Excellent!!
Review: Vacationing out West after her divorce from Representative Price, Miranda Price thought she would finally be able to get her private life back in order. She and her son, Scott, were on a tourist train ride and she was just as impressed as the other sightseers when the train robbers appeared. Little did she know that she and her son would be taken as hostages by the mysterious leader of this band of renegades. Hawk O'Toole was a desperate man. Desperate to make life better for his people. So reluctantly, he agreed to kidnap Rep. Price's son. I first read this book in 1988 when it was published as a Loveswept Romance and to this day it remains one of my favorites. I know it deals with a sensitive subject, kidnapping, but remember, this is a romance novel and it ends well. At no time was Miranda or Scott harmed. I always wished this novel was more indepth and a longer read. Ms. Brown absolutely amazed me with this story. She was able to pack a powerhouse story into a short 198 page read. This fast paced read is definitely worth your time.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent!!
Review: Vacationing out West after her divorce from Representative Price, Miranda Price thought she would finally be able to get her private life back in order. She and her son, Scott, were on a tourist train ride and she was just as impressed as the other sightseers when the train robbers appeared. Little did she know that she and her son would be taken as hostages by the mysterious leader of this band of renegades. Hawk O'Toole was a desperate man. Desperate to make life better for his people. So reluctantly, he agreed to kidnap Rep. Price's son. I first read this book in 1988 when it was published as a Loveswept Romance and to this day it remains one of my favorites. I know it deals with a sensitive subject, kidnapping, but remember, this is a romance novel and it ends well. At no time was Miranda or Scott harmed. I always wished this novel was more indepth and a longer read. Ms. Brown absolutely amazed me with this story. She was able to pack a powerhouse story into a short 198 page read. This fast paced read is definitely worth your time.
Rating:
Summary: Not for the reader who enjoys gentle romances.
Review: While I enjoy Sandra Brown's writing I could not enjoy this book. I find Hawk's treatmant of Miranda despicable.I could not find one single reason for her to fall in love with him. He kidnaps her son for his own gain, one minute he's threatening her, the next he's coming on to her & the next he's calling her a slut.He forces his kisses & "gropes" upon her, the scenarios remind me more of a date rape than a seduction. I wouldn't want a man to read this & think that is what women like. Perhaps if his stance on the Lone Puma Mine & Native American culture had been covered in more depth he might have had redeemed himself somewhat.. I also found the conclusion too abrupt & tied up a little too neatly.
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