Customer Reviews

Savage Longings (Savage (Leisure Paperback))

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I read one other C. Edwards book, and it was good. But this one was an exbarrassment. It had a lot of potential, considering it was a true story of the author's ancestors. But the dialogue sounded like it was written by a 4th grader - terse, and too flowery. Oftentimes there was a "huge" conflict presented on one page, turn it over and the problem is magically solved. Both lead characters were so - "wussy" for lack of a better word. It was, sadly, a complete waste of time.

This story is so stupid, especially since it is suppose to be based on a true story. First off, Indians didn't have princesses. That was one mistake she made with me. If I'm not mistaken this book is a sequel to I forget which book. I remember in the end Snow Deer comes to live with her father and his white wife. So why the heck would Snow Deer father get upset that she loves a white man when he loves a white woman? Cassie Edwards romanticizes Native American culture so much that she makes her great great-grandfather a chief and her great grandmother a princess. Give me a break. She could've kept this story. Her characters like all her characters are never developed and weak which is a shame since this story is about her own great -grandmother.

Savage Longings was a very sweet and romantic book. It was just as good as Savage Secrets, and I loved reading about Snow Deer, Charles Cline, Blazing Eagle, Becky. I have read both books,and both are very well researched, and very well written. Cassie Edwards did very well with these two novels. This book had everything a romance novel is supposed to have. It did lack a little adventure, but that is okay. Savage Longings, and Savage Secrets are still very good romance novels. I hope there is more people who love her books as much I do.

having read several Savage books by this author, I was happy to see what seemed like a different story. In the usual Savage book, a white woman is kidnapped by an Indian (usually a chief) and develops Stockholm Syndrome under his touch and falls for him, so this story actually sounded promising.

In some ways, it is. Instead of a white woman/Indian man, we have a Indian princess/white man. However, Princesses did not exist in Indian culture - yes the son or daughter of a chief was often esteemed, but there was no such 'Princess', and it was jarring to hear Snow Deer refer to herself as such. Snow Deer is kidnapped by murderous trappers, but is rescued by the male protagonist. He does NOT force her to stay with him and lets her act of her own volition, which was refreshing.

Cassie Edwards uses a lot of ellipses, which gets annoying, and some parts of the story are really cliched and annoying. I found the ending to be really cheesy, and it threw me off - not just how it ended, but how it was written.

The cover also bothers me. Snow Deer is Cheyenne, yet she is depicted as having pale skin, and Charles actually looks more like a Native American than she does!

I liked this book and if it's not 100 % historically accurate, who cares. I'm reading it for the romance and the fantasy, not for a history lesson.

This is a wonderful book. I could not put it down. It is not a historical romance but who cares? I read it beacsue it is romance and hey, I like princesses. My country have a princess so don`t say anything bad against that. Besides this is not a history lesson but a book. And as a book it is great.

This was a great love story!!! It was different from a lot of her other books, because this time it was an Indian woman falling in love with a white man, instead of the other way around (still, I do like the stories better when its a white woman falling in love with an Indian, I think they're sexier that way. =0)). I liked reading about how Charles and Snow Deer's love was stronger than all the conflicts they faced. And I really liked how this book had all the characters from one of Cassie Edwards other books, Savage Secrets. Savage Secrets is my fave book in the Savage series (so far), and I loved reading about Blazing Eagle and Becky again. This book was sweet and romantic, but I thought it lacked mystery and adventure. Also, I like it better when the main guy of the story is an Indian. They seem more manly then the white men. lol.Still, it was a pretty good book. I would've givin it three stars, though, if Becky and Blazing Eagle weren't in it.

SAVAGE LONGINGS IS A EXCELLENT STORY ABOUT TWO PEOPLE IN LOVE, THAT WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO BE TOGETHER. WITH THE DIFFERENCES IN SKIN COLOR, SNOW DEERS FATHER FORBID HER TO BE WITH THE WHITE MAN,ALTHOUGH CHARLES WOULD NOT GIVE UP THAT EASILY SNOWDEER EVENTUALLY PUSHED CHARLES AWAY, FEARING THAT SHE WOULD LOSE HER PEOPLES RESPECT, AND BEING A PRINCESS SHE DID NOT WANT TO RISK THAT. THIS STORY PULLS YOU INTO THE BOOK, AS IF IT'S YOU WHO IS BEING WROTE ABOUT. IT MAKES YOU CRY WITH SADNESS, ANGER, AND DISAPOINTMENT. YOU FEEL THE PAIN THAT SNOWDEER AND CHARLES EXPERIENCED.PART OF THIS IS A TRUE STORY, CASSIE EDWARDS IS AN EXCELLENT AUTHOR. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ALL READERS OF ROMANCE.