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Summary: Disappointing
Review: As a Texan, I enjoy reading about the early days of the Republic, but Joan Johnston makes some historical mistakes that jarred me out of the novel several times, and Cricket's father Rip just isn't a sympathetic character at all. Johnston tries to convince us he's a loving father, but the man is frankly a child abuser and no motivation justifies his treatment of his daughters. She also made some errors with Comanche culture, especially the Numu language. This series is entertaining if you simply want to read a romance, but fans who select historical fiction tend to be quite knowledgeable about their favorite time periods, and WILL catch glitches. I think this talented author could have been a bit more careful with her research and the novel would have been MUCH more entertaining. For that reason, only two stars.
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Summary: Wonderfully done!
Review: Creighton "Cricket" Stewart is a woman of many means, a woman of strength, a woman who would rather live as a man, until Jarrett Creed. Jarrett Creed, a Texas Ranger, who also, like Cricket, is a loner, until he meets Cricket Stewart. The two meet during a time of Comanche raids and the Wild West, before it was won. Their story takes them across Texas and into New Orleans and back again, all to save Cricket's sister, Sloan and the Texas frontier. The last thing the two expect is to fall in love... *****Another five stars from me. This book I approached apprehensively, (I'm not really into these types of novels) but I found that I could not put it down! This novel was wonderful, full of character and humor. I was reading it on my breaks and people were staring at me because I was laughing so hard. This is definitely a good read, and now I'm looking forward the rest of this series called Bitter Creek. ***** Reviewed by Kim Blair
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Summary: A riveting story that grips from the first page.
Review: Creighton "Cricket" Stewart is the youngest of Rip Stewart's unusual daughters. He dreamed of having sons, sons whose futures he had planned. Each of his daughters is different and Cricket is his favorite, the child of his heart. She is rough-and tumble, can ride and shoot, fight and curse with the toughest man. Until she meets Jarrett Creed, a Texas Ranger with ties to the Comanche. I like the way the author made the heroine strong (at a time when women were treated as the gentler, weaker sex) yet believable. Creed is the perfect match for Cricket and gets her to see that, despite her rugged upbringing, she is forever and always, a woman. This story made me anxious to read the next in the series.
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Summary: A riveting story that grips from the first page.
Review: Creighton "Cricket" Stewart is the youngest of Rip Stewart's unusual daughters. He dreamed of having sons, sons whose futures he had planned. Each of his daughters is different and Cricket is his favorite, the child of his heart. She is rough-and tumble, can ride and shoot, fight and curse with the toughest man. Until she meets Jarrett Creed, a Texas Ranger with ties to the Comanche. I like the way the author made the heroine strong (at a time when women were treated as the gentler, weaker sex) yet believable. Creed is the perfect match for Cricket and gets her to see that, despite her rugged upbringing, she is forever and always, a woman. This story made me anxious to read the next in the series.
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Summary: A rootin', tootin' good read
Review: Cricket Stewart is the youngest of Rip's daughters, the rebel. She's opinionated, dresses and fights like a man. Jared Creed, a Texas Ranger who spent many years as a Comanche brave, is her match in every way. From him, Cricket learns to accept and love her femininity, and still retain her fiery spirit. This book was the first in a series to feature three daughters who are unusual for their time, when women were considered inferior. I found myself encouraging Cricket to let go of her fears of being a woman and Jared for being the man to do it.
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Summary: Spitfire
Review: Frontier Woman by Joan Johnston has exceptional side interests with the main family of Rip Stewart consisting of daughters that are spitfires. Their escapes are thrilling, dangerous and romantic. When will I be able to purchase Texas Women the continuation story?
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Summary: This book delivers one poor opinion of women!!!
Review: I realize that this book was first published some twenty years ago but that does not excuse its stone-age take on women (or men, for that matter). The author takes great pains to explain that the 3 daughters in the book, were raised to be as men (read a woman of the modern day), then goes on to describe them in a most unflattering light. The youngest (and the main character, here) is completely selfish, stupid, unreasonable and woefully ignorant. The hero, at least, is unfailingly perfect (strong, intellegent and brave). Repeatedly we are confronted with ridiculus sollutions to non-problems, the lovely idea that "no" means "yes"...and women REALLY DO want to be treated as possessions! The constant clap-trap about "being a REAL woman" was embarassing. I had hoped that this book would have at least had some authentic frontier background to it, but beyond the author placing the date at the beginning of the book and one or two names (pulled from history books) thrown in, there was little to suggest that it was anything but a contemporary setting.
I suffer from an unreasonable need to finish any book that I start but this one presented one of the greatest challenges of my 50+ years. The writing was amateurish, the story was pure drek and the sentiments were insulting to all people everywhere.
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Summary: Page Turner
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I am looking forward to the sequel.
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Summary: A really great story!
Review: I thought this was a well written story. It is filled with lots of history and some frontier realities. It has the makings of a wonderful story with strained feelings of love, old enemies and betrayal. The main characters are Creed and Cricket but the story is also very full of Crickets two sisters, her father and Creeds brother Tom and his wife Amy. It's a book that, once started, is very hard to put down. I highly recommend this book. It's a keeper! I am looking forward to reading about the other two sisters in Commanche Woman and Texas Woman.
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Summary: A delightful romance
Review: In 1840 Texas, rancher Rip Stewart orders his youngest daughter Cricket to take his middle daughter Bay hunting and not to return without a kill. Cricket knows that Bay is too soft to kill anything, but they go anyway. During the hunt, Cricket finds a naked man bathing in the river with several of her father's horses nearby. After quite a tussle and with a lot of help from her three pet wolves and some shaky assistance from Bay, they capture the horse thief. On the way home, Cricket suffers from the monthly miseries, using alcohol to ease her pain. She leaves the tied up prisoner in the barn for Rip to handle. The next day, Cricket learns that her prisoner is Texas Ranger Jarrett Creed, who regained the stolen horses from the Comanche. As Cricket and Creed fight and squabble they begin to fall in love. However, he wants someone more feminine and she wants no man in her life. However the catalyst of a deadly conspiracy hangs over their heads and when the Comanche captures Cricket, it makes them both reassess their values. FRONTIER WOMAN is a reprint of a novel from the late 1980s miniseries starring the ancestors of the modern day Bitter Creek tales. The enticing story line remains fresh as Joan Johnston instills problems for her hero and heroine (i.e., a cramping period while riding) that seem genuine while providing a taste of the Lone Star Republic. Fans of the Bitter Creek books will want to read this novel as well as the upcoming reprints that tell the stories of Cricket's two sisters. Harriet Klausner
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