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Summary: Decent plot, flat secondary characters.
Review: There is a lot to like about this book. I like the fact that Emma has a half-breed child from a long ago rape and she keeps her child and lets him know how much he's loved.I like the fact that Emma doesn't whine about things that need to be done - she just does them. I like the fact that Rider is an outcast in both his Shoshoni world and in the white world. It gives him a certain edge, I think. However, there's a lot to not like about this one, too. I would have preferred that Emma not have been raped. Her son could have been written in differently - ie she's raising her sister' son, she thought she loved the man who fathered the boy, etc. Being the child of a rape has got to be hard on a child.Yet, the son says nothing or does nothing about why his skin tone was so much more different than his parents. I disliked the fact that while she was sleeping with Rider, she tried to get the Lt. from the army outpost to propose to her. I disliked the cavalier way Rider went about securing Emma as his bed partner on the wagon trail. I also disliked that absolute flatness of every other character on the wagon trail. As a reader, you didn't care one iota if any of them lived, died, or made it to Oregon or not. This wasn't a bad book and yet, it could have been done so much better. My recommendation? Buy it used or borrow it from a friend.
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Summary: Warrior's Heart
Review: This book is blah. Sometimes the plot is boring, repetitive and convuloted. I definitely have read better (Dorothy Garlock's books come to mind). The storyline doesn't have any flow and even though it is "pulp fiction" I expected better from this author.
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