Cassie Edwards

Oh, this one is NOT good! This is possibly the worst "pirate" romance I've had the misfortune to pay money for in a long time! I only made it through the first 150 or so pages because this "pirate" just doesn't seem to enjoy doing pirate like things, like attacking other ships. He gets emotionally involved with the heroine WAAAAY to quickly, and she already seems to be awfully knowledgeable about sex & seduction despite her alleged virginity. What bothered me most was her barely middle aged show more mother portrayed as feeble, and completely helpless. It's pathetic! The plot is just one badly contrived explanation after another. I can't believe this made it into print! show less

having read several Savage books by this author, I was happy to see what seemed like a different story. In the usual Savage book, a white woman is kidnapped by an Indian (usually a chief) and develops Stockholm Syndrome under his touch and falls for him, so this story actually sounded promising.

In some ways, it is. Instead of a white woman/Indian man, we have a Indian princess/white man. However, Princesses did not exist in Indian culture - yes the son or daughter of a chief was often show more esteemed, but there was no such 'Princess', and it was jarring to hear Snow Deer refer to herself as such. Snow Deer is kidnapped by murderous trappers, but is rescued by the male protagonist. He does NOT force her to stay with him and lets her act of her own volition, which was refreshing.

Cassie Edwards uses a lot of ellipses, which gets annoying, and some parts of the story are really cliched and annoying. I found the ending to be really cheesy, and it threw me off - not just how it ended, but how it was written.

The cover also bothers me. Snow Deer is Cheyenne, yet she is depicted as having pale skin, and Charles actually looks more like a Native American than she does! show less

I can say with all honesty that this is the best Cassie Edwards Savage book I have read so far. In the ones I read before, the white girl is always kidnapped and practically-raped by whatever Indian man kidnaps her (it's always a chief or the son of the chief of the tribe!)

The Indian who kidnaps Ashley does so under a misunderstanding. However, misunderstanding is cleared up, and he does not force her to stay with her, and she is willing to make love with him. He never has to force her into show more anything and she willingly goes with him. This was new to me, so I upped the star rating.

However, as always. Ms. Edwards abuses ellipses, and some of her dialogue is pretty terrible, especially when putting ellipses in bad dialogue, so I cannot give this book any higher than a 3. Still, it's a decent book, and one of the better Savage books I've read. show less

Having read several of these Savage books, I found this one to be lackluster. The four I have already read follow pretty much the same formula - Indian kidnaps white girl, white girl fights at first but then surrenders and falls in love with him, some people (Indians and whites) disapprove of the union but in the end everyone lives happily ever after.

Edwards does a nice job of describing colonial or Indian life, so thumbs up for research. Generally, Edwards does a decent job with the show more lovemaking scenes, but her phrase of 'love cave' to describe a woman's lady parts just made me laugh out loud (it's used a couple of times in this book) Also, she abuses ellipses and uses them way too often, so some... sentences have... like, three... or four... ellipses... and it's really... really annoying...

If not for the repetitive storyline and the abuse of ellipses, I'd have given this book a higher rating. show less