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Summary: What a GREAT BOOK!
Review: I read the negative reviews on Comanche Woman so I was a little apprehensive but I read Frontier Woman so I decided to go for it. I did not feel at all like some of the other reviewers. I thought it was a wonderful love story. Long Quiet is a strong yet tender man who is torn between two worlds. Being half comanche he has stayed true to that side of his heritage. But Bay Stewart changes all that. She has always been tender hearted and has now been in captivity for 3 year but was bought by a kind comanche named Many Horses. Lone Quiet ends up taking her as his bride and because of many threats against her life he decides that she won't be safe in even his own village. So he takes her to her home and decides that she should forget him and that he will return to his village after the business he has to take care of. But...will he really be able to stay in his village or will he return to try to claim Bay as his wife and live in the white world. Through lots of ups and downs it does have a happy ending and there are lots of tender moments that I really enjoyed. So take a chance. I'm so glad I did. For me this is a keeper. I am looking forward to reading Texas Woman.
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Summary: Unbelievably bad.
Review: I started out reading "The Cowboy" trilogy which was an interesting enough read. So I figured I'd check out the prequel and see where these characters came from. I started with this book "Commanche Woman", and it was so bad, it is embarrassing. This is the type of book that makes me ashamed to read Romance. I didn't even finish it. The heroine's kidapping situation and treatment were completely implausible. The hero's bizaare infatuation/love for this woman was unfounded and made him, pretty much a weirdo in my opinion. I really enjoyed the other three books I read by this author (although I see a marked improvement in her writing with each book); But this one is for the dogs...potty training them.
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Summary: Unbelievably bad.
Review: I started out reading "The Cowboy" trilogy which was an interesting enough read. So I figured I'd check out the prequel and see where these characters came from. I started with this book "Commanche Woman", and it was so bad, it is embarrassing. This is the type of book that makes me ashamed to read Romance. I didn't even finish it. The heroine's kidapping situation and treatment were completely implausible. The hero's bizaare infatuation/love for this woman was unfounded and made him, pretty much a weirdo in my opinion. I really enjoyed the other three books I read by this author (although I see a marked improvement in her writing with each book); But this one is for the dogs...potty training them.
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Summary: Not a western, just another romance novel
Review: I was disappointed when I found this was just a romance novel dressed up in Western clothing. All the time and attention is on feelings,sex and antisapation of sex. Change the names and location and it is just like all the rest.
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Summary: exciting Texas historical romance
Review: In the 1843 Republic of Texas, as he promised three years ago to her sister, half-breed Long Quiet continues his search for the missing Bayleigh "Bay" Stewart with no success. When he saves the life of chief Many Horses Long Quiet believes his quest might be over when he learns of Shadow, a white woman owned by this Comanche chief. As his reward, Long Quiet receives Shadow, who is Bay.Long Quiet is patient with his frightened gift, but begins to reach the woman he has cherished ever since he saw her back east years ago. When someone tries to kill her, Long Quiet takes Bay to safety. Though they love one another, he knows his Indian people needs him so he wants to live in Comancheria while she needs to go to her family ranch. Bay returns home to learn that the family faces a financial crisis with their only hope left for her to marry her wealthy former suitor Jonas Harper. However, she now carries Long Quiet's baby causing a different dilemma. Though the story line is typical of most of Joan Johnston's Texas historical romances, the reprint of COMANCHE WOMAN will please sub-genre fans because this is one of the best entries in the extended mythos. The story line enables the audience to observe the lifestyles of Native American and Texans in the middle nineteenth century yet provides wonderful lead protagonists and a strong secondary cast including stars from the first novel (see FRONTIER WOMAN). This is an entertaining tale that readers will gain plenty of pleasure while awaiting the next reprint, Texas woman. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: exciting Texas historical romance
Review: In the 1843 Republic of Texas, as he promised three years ago to her sister, half-breed Long Quiet continues his search for the missing Bayleigh "Bay" Stewart with no success. When he saves the life of chief Many Horses Long Quiet believes his quest might be over when he learns of Shadow, a white woman owned by this Comanche chief. As his reward, Long Quiet receives Shadow, who is Bay. Long Quiet is patient with his frightened gift, but begins to reach the woman he has cherished ever since he saw her back east years ago. When someone tries to kill her, Long Quiet takes Bay to safety. Though they love one another, he knows his Indian people needs him so he wants to live in Comancheria while she needs to go to her family ranch. Bay returns home to learn that the family faces a financial crisis with their only hope left for her to marry her wealthy former suitor Jonas Harper. However, she now carries Long Quiet's baby causing a different dilemma. Though the story line is typical of most of Joan Johnston's Texas historical romances, the reprint of COMANCHE WOMAN will please sub-genre fans because this is one of the best entries in the extended mythos. The story line enables the audience to observe the lifestyles of Native American and Texans in the middle nineteenth century yet provides wonderful lead protagonists and a strong secondary cast including stars from the first novel (see FRONTIER WOMAN). This is an entertaining tale that readers will gain plenty of pleasure while awaiting the next reprint, Texas woman. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Comanche Woman by Joan Johnston
Review: Over the past several months I've gotten myself totally addicted to Joan Johnstons' books and Comanche Woman is at the top of my list of favorites. Unlike Frontier Woman, the first book of this series which I had a bit of trouble getting through the beginning, Comanche Woman picks up at a gallop. I'm looking forward to continuing with Texas Woman to see what the third Stewart sister does with her life.
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Summary: Great read
Review: Really enjoyed this book. Fun, fast paced and sexy.
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Summary: I was very disappointed...
Review: Texas and Comancheria, 1843 Now known as Shadow, a powerful medicine woman to the Comanche warrior, Many Horses, Bayleigh "Bay" Stewart has adjusted to the Comanche way of life after being kidnapped three years ago. She still, however, dreams of the day she can go home and marry her love, Jonas Harper. When Many Horses returns to the village after a brief absence, he has a half-breed stranger, Long Quiet, in his company. Apparently the man saved Many Horses' life more than one time and is now his blood brother. As such, he offers Shadow to Long Quiet, not realizing the repercussions that will follow this impulsive act. His father a white man, his mother Comanche, Long Quiet walks between the two worlds, but the Comanche are nearest and dearest to his heart. He has been searching for Bayleigh Stewart the past three years and now that he has found her, Long Quiet is reluctant to return her to her family, despite the promise he made to Bay's sister. As the weeks go by and the two fall in love, it is evident that the people of the Comanche village no longer hold Shadow in awe and fear -- instead, they want her dead. With Many Horses' blessing, the two escape from the village and start the long, enlightening journey to Bay's home. I have long been a fan of Joan Johnston's novels, but COMANCHE WOMAN is not a keeper for me. I was enthralled until chapter ten, when the story took on a very abrupt change in tone and direction from what I had previously read. It was as if someone else had taken over the writing. From that point on, there is an abundance of point of view changes, strange character inconsistencies, "purple" prose, and predictable happenstances. I have not read the other books in this series, so COMANCHE WOMAN may very well mesh perfectly with those. Even though I was personally disappointed in the last half of the book, I'm sure there are Joan Johnston fans who will enjoy the story.
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Summary: Something missing...
Review: There was something missing in this tale of a white woman stolen by the Comanche. The premise itself was engaging but the characters were not. The first book I have read by Joan Johnston, I felt like I was missing some vital history and that the characters I were reading about were really not 2-Dimensional as they appeared to be, but there was more to this that was not included in this particular book. Bayleigh Steward, a tall and beautiful redheaded white woman was stolen three years ago by Comanche from her father's plantation. Her sister Cricket has asked that Long Quiet, a friend of her husband's, search for her. Long Quiet is a son of a Comanche woman and a white father and able to pass between the two worlds of Comanche and white people. Long Quiet once met Bayleigh and had decided that she was the woman for him, the one he wanted to have as his wife. He takes on the responsibility of finding her very seriously. When helping a Comanche, Many Horses, escape from a brutal death, he is embraced as a blood brother and taken back to the camp where he understands a redheaded white woman is being help captive. As a thank you for saving his life Many Horses offers Long Quiet the white woman Shadow he sees he desires to use as he wishes. Of course Long Quiet accepts. The reader is led to believe certain things at this stage regarding Shadow, that her captors abused her. However, this never happened in the ways you would think and it's too unbelievable to accept as a reader. The stage is set, the characters are in place, but something is missing. This story lacks the punch necessary to make this an engaging read.
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