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Summary: Steamy love story, but unnecessary enemy insight...
Review: Nick and Enid are highly attracted to each other and fall in love, but they foolishly try to hide these feelings from each other worried about rejection and a relationship that is forbidden. I liked a lot about this book...it was very culural and educational, but I felt it was unnecessary to go into detail of the disgusting thoughts and violent acts of the enemies in this book. It really made me want to stop reading it completely, and it was almost impossible to transition from these horrific parts into the deeply passionate parts with Nick and Enid together. Your mood shouldn't be thrown in opposite directions, it should be smoothly guided. I felt these untasteful desriptions would have served better as simply letting the reader know what has happened, rather than forcing them to experience the awful torture of the victims. In the end however all is good. It left me with much peace, which I greatly liked.
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Summary: My Buffalo Soldier
Review: Reeves, Barbara B.K. MY BUFFALO SOLDIER. Columbus, Mississippi: Genesis Press, Inc. 2000. 265 p. Paperback: $8.95. ISBN 1-58571-013-XMy Buffalo Soldier is a compelling story of an impossible love between a man and a woman. In 1871 when Nick Balfours feels an attraction to Enid Jamison, he knows he must ignore it. Even a century later the love between a black man and a white woman will be barely tolerated. Fighting his heart Nick refuses to allow Enid to teach in a black school at Fort Clark. "A white teacher, young and delectable, beautiful and blonde, standing up before all those horny black soldiers" was unthinkable. When Enid's racist brother, Paul, discovers she is teaching ignorant black soldiers, he threatens to confine her to an asylum. Enid recognizes her own attraction to Nick. Both struggle to hide their longings for each other. Nick attempts to save them both from the many opposing villians, knowing he has no business wanting a white woman. Just when true love seems to have conquered all, Enid's brother brings his gang of cutthroats to wreak vengence on those who would love enough to defy customs. The prejudice and bigotry of the Reconstruction South almost defeat the love of a black Buffalo soldier for a white Confederate widow. B.K. Reeves writes western, science fiction, contemporary, and historical novels. She teaches novel and short story at San Jacinto College. My Buffalo Soldier is BK's sixth published novel.
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Summary: Epimetheus
Review: Robed in the hues of post-civil war West Texas, set in a dynamic of interacial desire, "Buffalo Soldier" is in truth, not some confrontational social parable, but an ancient, ageless story of the human condition from the inside out. Prometheus, Hesione, Pandora, Epimetheus live here in this tale of love and angst. Remarkable!
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