NUMBER: 24TITLE: Hope's Captive
AUTHOR: Kate Lyon
STARTED: March 11, 2006
FINISHED: March 14, 2006
PAGES: 375
GENRE: Romance
FIRST SENTENCE: "Wake up, thief!"
SUMMARY: [From the back of the book] Zach McCallister was a man on a mission. His son had been kidnapped by the Cheyenne, and he vowed to find the boy against all odds. All he needed was someone to get him into the Cheyenne camp before the Indians broke their reservation treaty and bolted for Montana, taking Luke with them. And Caroline Whitley seemed to be the answer to his prayers. Rumored to be the wife of the Cheyenne chief, she needed Zach to deliver medicine to her husband and his people. But after long nights on the trail, Zach found himself hopelessly mesmerized by the inner strength of the determine beauty.
Caroline trusted only one man in her life: Little Wolf, the brave Cheyenne chief who saved her from an abusive Kiowa captor. One man, that is, until she met Zach. His very presence calmed her fears, and his gray eyes reassured her that he was a man of his word. But he through she was a married woman, beyond his reach; and until Caroline found the courage to open her heart and tell him the truth, she would remain... Hope's Captive.
REASON FOR READING: I read on a blog that it was better than the cover.
THOUGHTS: It was indeed better than the cover. I echo Super_Librarian when she says this was a "When bad covers happen to good books" incident.
Overall, I found this book to be well researched and well written. What I particularly enjoyed were all the details of life at the time that the author was able to throw into the narrative. I never would have considered how the Native Americans made it through the winter if Lyon had not put it in her novel.
Sadly, the characters, in my mind, had no chemistry. But, the were written with such depth that the lack of spark did not hurt the story. Also, there were so many other lesser characters that rounded out the book that, for me, this should not be a romance novel. I would have been just find reading a fictional story without all the cliches of romance the author dropped in.
My one other complaint is that Lyon jumps from scene to scene too quickly. I wish she had spent more time developing each scene as one whole chapter instead of chopping each scene up into little vignettes.
MISCELLANEOUS: Why is the male on the cover wearing buckskins? He never does that in the book.
KEEP/SHARE/CRINGE(?): PBSing
RATING: 7/10 [Very Good]
CR: Y The Last Man Brian K. Vaughan
RN: The Sandman: The Wake by Neil Gaiman
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