tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43099640888629965162024-03-08T00:06:08.597-08:00BookReviewsbyJoanI now review both fiction and non-fiction books for Amazon and others and I post my reviews of the more enjoyable books on this blog site for the convenience of the readers.Joan Adamakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13731811615518216116noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4309964088862996516.post-23033964456769318532015-03-19T14:04:00.004-07:002015-03-19T14:04:51.669-07:00PASSION'S PRICE<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">PASSION’S PRICE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Book 3 Passion Series<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">By Mary Adair<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Love Finds Its Own</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In Book 2, Raven was dismissed by the Cherokee Tribe for
having no control over his temper. He is
sent by Chief Red Panther (James Fitzgerald) to oversee his business in London.
Raven believes that he will never be allowed to go home and in his loneliness,
he meets a beautiful, sophisticated woman named Marguerite, to whom he becomes
engaged. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">His Cherokee love, Golden Dawn, daughter of Red Panther,
believes that she and Raven are destined for each other and that she is to save
his life. Through guile and lies, she
manages to get on a ship headed for London to find Raven. She does find him, along with his half-brother
William and William’s two older aunts. These aunts love to interfere in others’ lives
and they determine who should be matched with whom. Raven has been to their house often and when Dawn gets to London, she manages to find
someone who will take her to that house so she can announce to Raven that she
has come to save his life and they will be married.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Raven is totally surprised and angry at Dawn because she is
from the colonies in the U.S. and not sophisticated enough to be let loose in
London. He can’t convince her to return
home and Marguerite soon learns about her.
Marguerite throws a tantrum and drops Raven, who now realizes he doesn’t
love Marguerite, but he is sure Chief Red Panther will never let him return to
the colonies or marry Dawn. No matter
how he tries to maneuver Dawn to go home where she is safe, she manages to
sidestep him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I enjoyed Book 3 of this series more than the other two. It is for more mature readers, it is
romantically interesting and yet there are dangers throughout the plot, which
keep the reader hooked. I recommend this
book for those who enjoy romances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I was given a complimentary copy for an honest review. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Joan Adamakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13731811615518216116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4309964088862996516.post-55878878905453120682015-03-17T14:44:00.001-07:002015-03-17T14:44:12.061-07:00Raven's Passion, Book 2<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">RAVEN’ PASSION, Book 2<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">By Mary Adair<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Young Love</b></span><div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This is definitely a YA genre and although the author uses
Indian names like one might expect, it is simply written and has a good share
of imagination in the plot, which would make it particularly interesting for
teenagers, about whom most of the story centers. Her language, however, does not particularly
feature how Indians would speak in their language. Also when the deer was killed and the girl went
to skin it, with the boy’s help and then she takes the skin away to wash it and
he wraps up the meat, with no electricity how was he going to keep the meat
from spoiling? Also, usually when there
was a skin, it would take three Indian women to scrape the skin clean of
gristle and fat on one side and hair on the other. And then it was soaked in animal urine to make
it soft. As far as keeping the meat,
usually it would be cut in strips and dried.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">But taking into consideration who would be reading this
story, I think it is a good plot with heroes and heroines and bad men, and
fantasies that make it enjoyable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I was given a complimentary copy for an honest review. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
Joan Adamakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13731811615518216116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4309964088862996516.post-29577630616552757412015-03-08T12:12:00.001-07:002015-03-08T12:12:15.903-07:00ADOBE GOLD<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">ADOBE GOLD<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Stone Justice Series, Book 1<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">By Robert C Mowry<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Action packed, fast moving Western during Civil War times, and
also an historical novel.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Colonel Tyrone Rafter was sent by his friend, President
Lincoln, to find a man important to the Civil war in Mexico. Rafter was captured, his leg wounded so badly
it was sawed off by a rather incompetent Mexican doctor and he was kept a
prisoner for seven years, subjected to torture, starvation and terrible living
conditions. He finally managed to
escape, but upon returning home learned that his beloved wife Laura had been
told he was dead and had remarried.
Rafter became extremely bitter and hostile, never revealing to Laura
that he was alive because of her remarriage.
He remained mostly in Mexico and became so violent and dangerous that he
was known El Pata Fantasma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">He let President Lincoln know he was alive and Lincoln eventually
sent for him to send him on another dangerous mission. Lincoln had been promised by a Mexican
constituent a large amount of gold that had been mined by the Mexican and
hidden. There were rumors of gold being
in the Santa Fe, New Mexico area, but no proof.
Rafter was to ascertain if there actually was gold available for the
Union’s use. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Rafter spent two weeks with a minister who helped him adapt
to the role of being a minister, and he was an atheist. He read the Bible in most of his spare time,
adopted an abandoned dog, Dinger and visited all of the Methodist churches in the
towns between Washington D.C. and Santa Fe to firm his role as Pastor Justin P
Stone. Because his wooden leg was so
tender, he purchased a buggy, which was his trademark. As the story proceeded, he learned that Laura
died, his son Buck, a young man now, although in the military, had a terrible
temper, and as he visited the different churches, was called upon to do
weddings, funerals, sermons, and give solace and comfort to many. He began to question whether there was a
God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The story is filled with war, death, Indian attacks,
romance, betrayal, love, hate and is a page turner. I truly enjoyed it and recommend it to anyone
who likes Westerns, especially when it includes so much history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I was given a complimentary copy for an honest review.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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