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Summary: A TRUE ROMANCE CLASSIC ~ MUST READ!
Review: How can you tell when a book is a classic? Let me put it to you this way....How many people do you know can quote the first line from a specific book ~ verbatim?? This book has the distinction of being consistently voted as one of the Top Ten books of all time by romance readers. Mackenzie Mountain has all the elements of a classic romance novel. A Great plot, snappy dialogue, plus an alpha male hero and his fiesty heroine, and those intensely sensous love scenes. Wolf Mackenzie is an outcast, who had been wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. He now lives with his son, Joe, on Mackenzie Mountain and has a wary truce with the townspeople. Of course that is until Mary Elizabeth Potter ,a spinster school teacher, arrives. As their attraction for each other grows into love; a dangerous force is ready to tear them apart forever... Linda Howard fans abound and for good reason. Inspite of her well deserved rise to hardback publication. She has continued this classic with sucessive stories of the Mackenzies. They are Mackenzie Mission, Mackenzie Pleasure, Mackenzie Magic, and what she states as her last, A Game of Chance. Read them all! Then prepare yourself to join the legion of Linda Howard fans that beg for more!!!
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Summary: Wolf Mackenzie is my kind of hero. His story is superb!
Review: I love this book. It is a definite 'keeper' in my opinion. The heroine, Mary, was a great match for Wolf. I thought DREAM MAN was my favorite Linda Howard book, but now it's #2 after MACKENZIE'S MOUNTAIN. Well, I'm off to read about Wolf's son, Joe, in MACKENZIE'S MISSION!
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Summary: The Best....
Review: One of my personal favorites, although there is alot of them, happens to be Mackenzie's Mountain.
With a southern teacher and a half breed Indian, what more could you want.
Mary, newly moved into town, finds out that Wolf's son Joe dropped out of school. Doing the right thing she goes over and demands to know why.
With a town hostal against Wolf because of a charge he didn't do, the town has never excepted them. But when Mary moves is the lines begin to waver and some one out there doesn't appreciate it much.
With the town in an up roar with only one man to blame, thinks strt to get intersting.
From the start I liked this book. With a hero who has strong erges and a heroine more than willing to explore them, it was a go from the start.
Comapired to other books I have read that featured any type of indian, I like the way Linda Howard betraied her's best. I highly recommend this book, and hope that you enjoy it as I have!
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Summary: Finally I got to read the first book in this series!
Review: I came to the MacKenzie Family saga backwards - I purchased the combined stories of Zane and Maris in MACKENZIE'S PLEASURE and MACKENZIE'S MAGIC, liked what I read, looked at the list of her prior books, and started hunting for them. I found a well-thumbed copy of MACKENZIE'S MISSION in the paperback section of my local library, but I could not locate MACKENZIE'S MOUNTAIN until its reissue this month, despite looking for at least a year...I snapped it up! Wolf Mackenzie is the premier male lead character - a powerful, mysterious, sensual, and flawed Viet Nam veteran (yes, he's very domineering - all in character, I suppose). Mary Potter is a wonderful foil - unattractive except to Wolf, cerebral, unaffectedly honest to a fault, and, fortunately, willing to tolerate Wolf's less endearing qualities. Their relationship unfolds with Ms. Howard's trademark sizzle-factor, but not too unbelievably fast (as is unfortunately the case in many other books of this genre). I'm hooked on this family's adventures, and now that I've read the foundation story of Wolf and Mary, I plan on rereading the later ones for a fresh perspective. I did get confused on the time line for all three stories. I couldn't figure out how there was time to let two decades elapse betwen this story and MACKENZIE'S PLEASURE, so that Joe would be well into his middle age by then. Joe was born during the Viet Nam war, and by my calculations, he couldn't have been as old as he was portrayed, so some kind of reference date for MACKENZIE'S MOUNTAIN would have helped. Oh, well, it's fiction anyway.
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Summary: Well written as always...but...heroine was a tad stupid?
Review: I do NOT like to knock a Howard because she is one of my FAVORITE authors, but this heroine was way over the top in the 'stupid department.' I realize this was written in the 1980's when the heroine was expected to be shy and reserved and virginial, yet strong and independent, but she came out as stupid (wince...I am so sorry Ms Howard) and very, very unbelievably ignorant of men and the world in general. She gave off this 'kill 'em all' attitude that just was nausiating to me.
A 29 year old spinster extrordinaire with a knack for letting the readers and the hero listen to her moronic and irritating dribble about her uptight and weird Aunt Ardith's rules of conduct got to be too much for me and I just lost any respect for her or why the hero Wolf would even like her.
A few of the secondary characters called her 'goody-goody' and I have to agree. She was a little too perfect and old fashioned for her age. Wolf deserved much better. The naivety was so bad that I was shaking my head and laughed outright when Wolf whispered a 'dirty' word in her ear about the sex act he'd like to perform on her and she had the gall to act confused and ask him what it meant and to show her. Whatever. Anyway, this is the 1980s, not the 1880s. Come on, get real.
This is the first in the Mackenzie series, which includes MacKenzie's Mission, MacKenzie's Pleasure, MacKenzie's Magic and A Game of Chance. Mary Elizabeth Potter is a spinster in every way imaginable. The clothes and the 'sensible shoes' she wears. She has no idea if she will ever fall in love and doesn't look for it. Things change when she volunteers to go to the small town of Ruth, WY as a schoolteacher. She is a great teacher and puts her whole self into teaching children.
One child gets her attention, Wolf MacKenzie's son. She must convince his father he belongs back in school, not at home working. Getting stranded on his mountain wasn't her plan, but nevertheless, Wolf comes upon her and thinks she must be an idiot.
Mary proves that his son is made for more and tutors him. Wolf realizes he can love again, even if he is an ex-con half-breed. But the town doesn't approve and lets them know.
Can they get past the racism that simmers below the surface and be accepted? Tracy Talley~@
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Summary: SIM#281
Review: MACKENZIE'S MOUNTAIN - Linda Howard A small Wyoming town is about to learn a few lessons -- from a new schoolteacher with the courage to win the heart of a man who swore he had nothing to give...
Mary Elizabeth Potter is a self-appointed spinster with no illusions about love. But she IS a good teacher -- and she wants Wolf Mackenzie's son back in school. And after one heated confrontation with the boy's father, she knows father and son have changed her life forever. Still paying for a crime he didn't commit, Wolf Mackenzie has a chip on his shoulder the size of Wyoming. But prim-and-proper Mary Elizabeth Potter doesn't see Wolf as the dangerous half-breed the town has branded him. Somehow she sees him as a good, decent, honest man. A man who could love... Wolf's not sure he -- or the town of Ruth, Wyoming -- is ready for the taming of Wolf Mackenzie.
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Summary: The best book I have ever read...and I've read hundreds
Review: Wolf MacKenzie. Mary Potter. Joe MacKenzie. Wolf is part Native American and part Scot, and has grown up with the prejudices offered by all peoples. He has never had anything easy in his life. He was convicted and served time for a crime he didn't commit. He lost his son, Joe, for the time he was in prison. Wolf managed to buy a ranch, and is sought out for his abilities with horses. Mary grew up in a strictly moral, old-fashioned household, having been reaised by a spinster aunt. She considered herself non-discript, mousey, uninteresting, and plain. She's a school teacher. She comes to Wyoming from the deep South, and is unprepared for the weather, the culture, and people of her new home. Joe has a deep desire to be a pilot in the USAF, but doesn't even consider this a possibility...until Mary comes to town. This is one of the most intense love stories I have ever read. I was fulfilled on all levels. The characters are three dimensional, full of life, and are like old friends. I have lost count of how many times I have read this story. This is not one of the new breed of romance/suspense novels. Although there is some suspense and a bad guy in this work, the main focus is on the building of a family, with Wolf, Mary, and Joe. Read it. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: GREAT
Review: THIS WAS THE FIRST LINDA HOWARD BOOK I EVER READ. I BECAME AN INSTANT FAN, AND HAVE READ ALL BUT MARIS' BOOK.
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Summary: A Great Read....
Review: God, I Love Linda Howard. She's always writing about these big Alpha men...my faves....in fiction anyways :o)...Wolf is no exception. He is big, strong, and a bit commanding, but I really Loved him. As much as I enjoyed him and the character of his son, Joe, the real highlight for me was Mary. Some of the thoughts that she had were a riot. She had such a sweet mix of spunk and insecurity mixed with a touch of naivete..I just adored her and couldnt help but laugh at the numerous lewd thoughts that sprang to her mind everytime Wolf entered the picture. As much as I enjoyed this, it just fell short of being a keeper for me....But I would still wholeheartedly recommend it.
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Summary: Gave me that warm, fuzzy feeling....
Review: This was a good one.... very sweet (& hot!) romance, good story about a town that needed redemption. Just loved both the hero, Wolf, and his son, Joe.... their life, their values (Wolf's body... lol); was so grateful to see them get what they really deserved out of life - it gave me that warm, fuzzy feeling that I just love. Really liked the heroine, Mary; although she was a bit naive in some respects, I thought she really deserved the title 'heroine'.... I greatly admired her courage. Her attention to, respect for, and relationship with Wolf's son, Joe, was just awesome also. I can never say enough about the respect people deserve who take the time to develop those type of relationships with step-kids or kids that have hurt that bad. LH won me over to Mary's character right away with Mary's concern and consideration for Joe.
I would recommend this one to anyone that likes to have a warm fuzzy feeling when the book is over......
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