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Summary: Great Teacher of Native American history
Review: Anything Rosanne Bittner writes is 5 STAR! She taught me almost everything I know about Native Americans, at a time when I was craving to learn it. (Even though it is fiction, SHE has done all of the homework) THANKS ROSANNE!! Jacy Pierce
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Summary: Great Teacher of Native American history
Review: Anything Rosanne Bittner writes is 5 STAR! She taught me almost everything I know about Native Americans, at a time when I was craving to learn it. (Even though it is fiction, SHE has done all of the homework) THANKS ROSANNE!! Jacy Pierce
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Summary: Make room on your "Keeper" shelf for this one
Review: Begins in June 1836, The Month of Making Fat. We return to the Lakota tribe. Still the same characters as the first book, "Mystic Dreamers". If you have not read the first book, do not worry, you will still understand the entire book. We see what happens to Fall Leaf Woman and her son, Spirit Walker. We witness casualties of war and some new faces.This book holds back no punches and is extremely realistic! It will make you laugh out loud, smile in joy, and scream in anger! You will feel the loss of friends from the first book and revel in the revenge of the Lakota in way that only the Lakota could do! *** This book continues where "Mystic Dreamers" (now in paperback) left off! Just as amazing as the last, this book follows history with great accuracy. A powerful and dramatic story that will leave its readers breathless! I was captivated from the very first paragraph! I felt like crying when it ended because I was begging for more! My only consolation was knowing that "Mystic Warriors" would come out. Here is a series that thousands will collect in hardback versions for their "keeper shelf". I will be one of them! ***
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Summary: You must read this one!
Review: Begins in June 1836, The Month of Making Fat. We return to the Lakota tribe. Still the same characters as the first book, "Mystic Dreamers". If you have not read the first book, do not worry, you will still understand the entire book. We see what happens to Fall Leaf Woman and her son, Spirit Walker. We witness casualties of war and some new faces. This book holds back no punches and is extremely realistic! It will make you laugh out loud, smile in joy, and scream in anger! You will feel the loss of friends from the first book and revel in the revenge of the Lakota in way that only the Lakota could do! *** This book continues where "Mystic Dreamers" (now in paperback) left off! Just as amazing as the last, this book follows history with great accuracy. A powerful and dramatic story that will leave its readers breathless! I was captivated from the very first paragraph! I felt like crying when it ended because I was begging for more! My only consolation was knowing that "Mystic Warriors" would come out. Here is a series that thousands will collect in hardback versions for their "keeper shelf". I will be one of them! ***
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Summary: Excellent Native-American Romance
Review: In 1836 on the Great Plains, Lakota warrior Rising Eagle learns from the shaman that he is to marry Buffalo Dreamer, a person belonging to another clan who foresees the future. After winning her hand by accomplishing the deeds set forth by her father and earning her love, Rising Eagle and Buffalo Dreamer marry. Over the subsequent years, the duo's love for one another and their growing family turn into the only thing that keeps them from deep depression. Wherever they and their tribe lives the Whites follow in masses, polluting the land and water, and bringing the deadly small pox with them. Buffalo Dreamer continues to envision the bleak future even as she predicts the one shining moment in their future, a triumphant last stand victory. Like its predecessor MYSTIC DREAMS, MYSTIC VISION brings alive a bygone era so vividly the audience believes they are observing events first hand. The entire cast provides readers with a feel of the period, especially the gloom felt by Indians as their way of life seemed destined to be trampled under an endless stream of Whites. The story line is crisp and entertaining. However, the characters with their motives, interrelationships, and the emotional stress countered by happiness make this another triumph for Rosanne Bittner and fans of historical romance. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: The "Noble Savage"
Review: Yes, this book is #2 in a trilogy. No, I have not read books #1 or #3. Yes, it is possible to read this book out of order and still understand what is going on...the question is though, would you want to? _Mystic Visions_ goes from 1838-1851 in a mere 316 pages. Those 316 pages are spent busily going from plot event to plot event with rapid-fire speed. Each "section" of the book takes place during a one-month period. Interestingly, all months occur during the summer, spring, or fall, glossing over the not-so-pretty aspects of living as a hunter-gatherer during difficult winter months...very typical "glossing" for an historical romance...but omitions that nonetheless create a skewed picture of Native American daily life and culture. Buffalo Dreamer and Rising Eagle do have a solid and loving relationship...then again, they'd HAVE to for Buffalo Dreamer to so easily shake off the image of seeing her husband rape a white woman lashed to a wagon wheel (all she does is complain about how the white woman should be honored to be "claimed" by so brave and handsome a warrior as her husband). I do believe that Bittner puts *GREAT* effort into portraying Native Americans in their own light, and in every sense of the description, this IS a "Native American Romance". Bittner works to dispell the image of the Native American as a "bloodthirsty heathon" of Hollywood and old western lore. That said, all Bittner has done is to supplant this stereotype with that of another...the Native American as "noble savage". As a readers' advisory librarian at a public library, I would have to question who indeed I could recommend this title to. Certainly it affords a "different" view of Native American life within American literature, and might be of interest to someone wanting to read Native American fiction. That said, a reader expecting lots of romance (I can probably count on one hand the number of intimate encounters), *accurate* historical information (I think I've expanded on this one enough already), or even sympathetic characters might be disappointed. I can only say that I will certainly NOT recommend this to anyone who has not expressed that they already enjoyed Bittner's other Native American works.
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Summary: The "Noble Savage"
Review: Yes, this book is #2 in a trilogy. No, I have not read books #1 or #3. Yes, it is possible to read this book out of order and still understand what is going on...the question is though, would you want to? _Mystic Visions_ goes from 1838-1851 in a mere 316 pages. Those 316 pages are spent busily going from plot event to plot event with rapid-fire speed. Each "section" of the book takes place during a one-month period. Interestingly, all months occur during the summer, spring, or fall, glossing over the not-so-pretty aspects of living as a hunter-gatherer during difficult winter months...very typical "glossing" for an historical romance...but omitions that nonetheless create a skewed picture of Native American daily life and culture. Buffalo Dreamer and Rising Eagle do have a solid and loving relationship...then again, they'd HAVE to for Buffalo Dreamer to so easily shake off the image of seeing her husband rape a white woman lashed to a wagon wheel (all she does is complain about how the white woman should be honored to be "claimed" by so brave and handsome a warrior as her husband). I do believe that Bittner puts *GREAT* effort into portraying Native Americans in their own light, and in every sense of the description, this IS a "Native American Romance". Bittner works to dispell the image of the Native American as a "bloodthirsty heathon" of Hollywood and old western lore. That said, all Bittner has done is to supplant this stereotype with that of another...the Native American as "noble savage". As a readers' advisory librarian at a public library, I would have to question who indeed I could recommend this title to. Certainly it affords a "different" view of Native American life within American literature, and might be of interest to someone wanting to read Native American fiction. That said, a reader expecting lots of romance (I can probably count on one hand the number of intimate encounters), *accurate* historical information (I think I've expanded on this one enough already), or even sympathetic characters might be disappointed. I can only say that I will certainly NOT recommend this to anyone who has not expressed that they already enjoyed Bittner's other Native American works.
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