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Heart So Wild

Heart So Wild

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Lindsey At Her Best
Review: The story of Courtney and Chandos is classic Lindsey.

Chandos is a dark mysterious stranger who helps Courtney while she is shopping in a general store. What Courtney does not remember is this is not the first time this man has saved her life. She had met him 4 years earlier in an indian attack where he spared her life. Courtney's life is not the happiest, she lives with a nasty stepmother and has dreams of leaving her life of drudgery to find true love. While reading a newspaper she thinks she sees a picture of her father. She thought that he had been taken in the indian attack 4 years earlier so she is thrilled to have a chance of finding him. Trouble is he is in Texas and she is in Kansas. Chandos is someone she feels safe with so askes him to take her there. He agrees after awhile and they both embark on a trip that will change them both for the better.

Read this book. It is classic Lindsey at her best. The characters are likeable and the bad guys bad! You are guaranteed a great read.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wild hearts, crazy love, must be Fate
Review: This is a love that was meant to be; there is no doubt about it. To find each other as adults after their first meeting is the work of fate. This was a very light-hearted romance that I had enjoyed very much.

It's a must-read book and a keeper for sure.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I loved it!
Review: This is my all time favorite book by Johanna Lindsey. The characters are wonderful, and really compliment each other. Chandos is my all time favorite hero, and I find his and Courtney's story to be truly endearing. You won't be disappointed in this read!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Lindsey's Best Book To Date!!!
Review: This is my all time favorite book by Johanna Lindsey. The characters are wonderful, and really compliment each other. Chandos is my all time favorite hero, and I find his and Courtney's story to be truly endearing. You won't be disappointed in this read!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Chandos Rules!
Review: This is my favorite Lindsey novel ever. Chandos is the hottest guy in creation (or, fiction). You will LOVE this book--go and buy it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Love it!!
Review: This is my personal favorite of Ms. Lindsey because of its original story and great characters. I simply love Chandos and wish there'd be more men like him in the real world!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: all time favorite book and hero
Review: this is the best book i have ever read. i fell in love with chandos. his depth is was what really got me. he was so tortured by his past and good at being a man. what i wouldn't do for him. the story had twists and turns that i didn't even see coming. it really kept me turning the page. i loved it!! the only complaint i have about this book (a little one) is courtney. i wish she could have been a little more stronger and not so vunerable but other then that i loved it!!!!!! whoever hasn't read this book should very soon. they don't know what they are missing. Johanna lindsey at her very best.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: GREAT! FANTASTIC!
Review: This was one the most romantic books I have read thus far. Chandos has a heart of gold when it comes to Courtney. There was so much love between them. The squeal, All I Need I You, is just as good!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: OUTSTANDING
Review: What a wonderful book. This book is on my "A" list as is Gentle Rogue and Once A Princess. Chandos and "Cat Eyes" were a great couple. What a dreamboat. To defend her in every way, always and the immediate loyalty to one another. The only thing I didn't like was that it ended.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great, with a few exceptions
Review: What is different about this book compared to other books by Johanna Lindsey it's that is very, very dramatic and intense. From the ones I have read, the only one which comes close in dramatism is "Savage Thunder". (This does not mean that I don't like the other ones... I like them very much, but they have other qualities: intense romance and funny dialogues, especially). But Chandos, the hero of A Heart So Wild, stands apart in the gallery of male characters created by Mrs. Lindsey. He is a troubled man, which has suffered a great deal in the past and is now seeking to avenge his loved ones. He is also torn between his two sides, because he is a white man raised among indians and he does not fit in perfectly in either place. He is very complex and he is not the usual hero: he has no trouble killing people and even torturing them... if he feels he is rigth. Sure, Angel did the same thing, but Chandos is even more ruthless. In the beggining of the book I was even wondering how Mrs. Lindsey plans to redeem him, but she did...

Unlike most of her novels, A Heart So Wild has a dark setting (of course, I don't mean nighttime... I mean I felt all the time that something somber is looming above) and no funny passages. I loved the mood it created.

Another aspect I have also loved was that the relationship between the two was that of equals, as it should be between man and woman. They are very different, but he doesn't try to dominate her or punish her or tell her what to do more than it is natural. I liked this because I am rather dissappointed with those of Mrs. Lindsey books in which the hero is the prototype of the domineering male and spanks, or worse, rapes the heroine.

A nice touch was added by the fact that Chandos and Courtney had met before, when she was just a teenager, four years or so before the actual action starts. Although she doesn't know it was him, the encounter had a very powerful effect on Chandos and influences many of his actions.

The book is very good, and is not the usual romance story. It raises many other issues, about racial prejudices and human cruelty, about injustice. It is quite violent in some places. I dodn't mind, as the violence was justified and was part of the hero's character.

However, I only give it 4/5 because of Courtney. The heroine did not quite convince me; I will most probably forget her very soon, unlike Jessica Fleming or Georgina Anderson, for example. I don't know where Mrs. Lindsey failed, because she did try. Courtney is not plain, she actually does some things, makes decisions, but she does not stand on her own. I could understand Chandos, why he felt bound and attracted to her, what determined his actions, but I cannot say the same for Courtney. When and why she became attracted to him was not clear to me. She was just sketched as a character.

Having said all this, I only want to say that of all Mrs. Lindsey books, I liked the Mallory books (especially those about Tony, James and Derek) and the westerns: Angel (***** !!!), Savage Thunder (also *****), Tender Is The Storm. I also liked Until Forever, Man Of My Dreams and Once A Princess. I did not care much for When Love Awaits, Warrior's Woman or Silver Angel and I hated A Pirate's Love. This should tell you something about my tastes and if we coincide, this review should help.


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