Unforgettable One of the top books that I've ever read. And one of the most unforgettable.....
My first .............and best! This is the first romance novel I read, many years ago. I still count it as one of my favorites, along with the other 'Reckless' books. Hannah and Shadow are beautiful characters with a passionate and ever lasting love. There is a lot of description, but I think this takes us through Hannah's experience. She is the narrator of the story and she is learning all of this in order to be with the man she loves. We see how much information she has to assimilate in a very short amount of time. I love this book and highly recommend it to everyone!Excellent story, totally over shadowed by unimportant detail I believe the very best Indian romance novels are those that are based upon true historical fact. However, this book was fact overkill. The book is 476 pages, but it would have been much better with about 200 of those pages cut out. Way too much time is spent upon describing every single character in the story, including characters whom have nothing to do with the actual story line. Page upon page of details about what the women's lives were like, what the children did with their days, how the men spent their time, blah, blah, blah...... I skimmed through A LOT of these pages just so that I could finally get back to the actual story. Another thing that bothered me was that, while the main couple (Hannah&Shadow)were separated, they each were with other people. Also, I could not get comfortable reading the story, because it is written in the first person. (From the point of view of the leading lady, Hannah.) This especially made the love scenes awkward, even though the loves scenes only consisted of a couple of sentences each. When you skim past all of the wasted pages, and overlook the writing style, the core story is excellent. It is very believe and realistic to the way of life of the time. Madelinde Baker takes you on a journey that includes the battle of Little Big Horn, Rosebud River, and more. Everything is not flowery and beautiful. There are hard times a plenty. However, there are also happy times. The love scenes were brief and held no detail, but the passion between the couple was great. I like the leading lady, who has guts and even takes to fighting along side her Cheyenne husband. I loved the ending, as well. All told, it was way longer than it should have been. Beautiful and haunting story. Too many wasted pages.
