Overall Rating: 4.75:Action: 3.75 / Emotion: 5.0 / Romance: 5.0 / Sensuous: 2.0 / Suspense: 2.5 // Historical Flavor: 4.5 // Laughter: 1 // Teary: 3 / Tears: 5Comanche Woman: 4.75:Since Joan Johnston is a favorite author, it was not surprising that this exciting, entertaining, deeply emotional, well-told story was un-put-down-able. The best book in The Sisters of The Lone Star Trilogy.Hero: 4.75:Long Quiet / Walker Coburn: A well-named hero. This handsome hero walked tall, full of integrity and knew who he was in spite of having the blood of two nationalities running in his veins. Long Quiet is a hero that would melt any woman's heart -- he endlessly pursued the woman he loved.Heroine: 4.50:Bayleigh "Bay" Falkirk Stewart: A beautiful, kind-hearted, sweet-natured heroine that struggled to find her place in a rough and tumble world. It was easy to feel compassion for and anger at Bay and then cheer her on as she struggled to find her place in the world.Story Line: 4.50:The story line was engaging and intriguing and kept readers glued to the book to see how {1} a half-white, half-Comanche man eventually found his way from the tribe that he loved to the woman he loved, and {2} a gentle-natured beauty made a connection to the family from which she felt distant.Action: 3.75:Enough action scenes, highlighting Long Quiet's masculine skills, kept the story interesting for readers who like a little adventure in their books.Emotion: 5.00:Johnston used Long Quiet's angst about his heritage to tie readers to him on a deeply emotional level. It was also easy to establish an emotional connection to Bay because of her feelings about not fitting into a family containing an overpowering father and two outspoken sisters.Romance: 5.00:The aura of romance permeated the entire story. Long Quiet had been in love with Bay for years . . . and then Bay found herself falling for Long Quiet, a man who courted her and showed kindnesses that were entirely inappropriate for his culture.Suspense: 2.50:Johnston kept readers in a continual state of edginess. First, wondering how Long Quiet was going to rescue Bay from the Comanche village and then how he was going to save her from marrying Jonas.Sensuous: 2.00:Johnston did a great job of slipping in some old-fashioned (1980s), very emotional, sensual love scenes that had a bit of sizzle when Long Quiet finally took Bay to his bed.Historical Flavor: 4.50:Johnson does an excellent job of including details about Texas history in the story as she addresses the issues the Texans faced as they warred with the Mexicans and Comanche.Secondary Characters: 5.00:One thing that Johnston does with great skill is to introduce secondary characters, who are important to the plot of the book, and sometimes play minor roles, but when they walk through the pages of the book, they leap out at you. This book featured: {1} Rip Stewart, {2} Sloan Stewart, {3} Luke Summers, {4} Many Horses, {5} He Decides It, {6} Little Deer, {7} Jonas Harper, {8} Cruz Guerrero, and {9} Francisco "Cisco" Guerrero.A more in-depth, detailed, spoiler-ridden review of Comanche Woman appears at Wolf Bear Does Books.
It's a great second novel.Somehow the characters were more likable in Book I. He makes a huge 180° and that's a bit too much to take. I would've wished for a better integration of Native life in the second book and the future of hero & heroine.Ich habe ein Buch bei BookCrossing.com registriert!http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/13057081
What do You think about Comanche Woman (2002)?
I wish I could have liked this one better. The beginning and ending were decent and had moments I really liked. The part in the middle where they were broke up for basically no reason was lame. I just prefer characters to stick together through their trials and tribulations. The whole other man threatening her family thing and so she tells the hero that she doesn't want/love him instead of sharing her problems and having him help her work them out, just doesn't work for me. And then he forgave her too quickly after saying he never would. I liked how the hero was crazy for her. I liked the bits of Indian life explored at the first. I disliked some of the deus ex machine stuff that happened, the wolves and the bank account for example.
—Jacqueline
The heroine is kidnapped by the Comanches at 18 years old and held captive by the war chief for 3 years (he thinks she has great medicine - magical powers). The hero, a half-breed Comanche, has been searching for her and in love with her for years. He finally finds her but "rescuing" her isn't so simple. I appreciated that the hero, Long Quiet aka Walker, really loved the heroine, Shadow aka Bayleigh. It was well-written with enough happening in the plot to keep me interested. Although I think this book could've been even better with more angst and drama.
—April Brookshire
Definitely a romanatized view of being captured by Indians and rescued but I really enjoyed reading the book anyway. I was intrigued by Long Quiet and found it interesting to read about how he made his way between the white world and the Comanche world. Books like this make me so glad that I didn't grow up on the frontier though! Not a lifestyle I would last long in. I did go back and forth some on if I liked Bay as the main character or not. When she decided to marry Jonas so quickly after losi
—Jodi
