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Wild Whispers

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This is not the worst book I've ever read, but that's the best I can say about it. Many of Cassie Edwards' books are interesting reads, but her quality from book to book is uneven. She also seems to rework plots. This book plot is remarkably similar to, "Savage Quest", in that an unscrupulous carnaval owner in both books impulsively kidnaps and imprisons an indian child to be displayed as an act. In both books, most of the consequences falls on the head of the adopted daughter. In Wild Whispers, both Kaylene and her "father" are taken by Chief Fire Thunder's war party. Kaylene's father is left staked out with wet rawhide which will shrink and dislocate his limbs face down in a pit with rattlesnakes, (I was a little disappointed they didn't include a lava lake or hanging boulder set to crush him if a breeze springs up), while Kaylene is taken on to the Choctaw village. It seems Fire Thunder has been having some hot dreams about Kaylene and wants to keep her but is worried that she will now dislike him because of his actions toward her father. His solution to this problem? He decides to show her how justified his actions were. So, on her first night in his village, while she is in pain and weak from a knife wound, (Night Thunder manages to accidentially stab her in the shoulder when her pet panther startles him), he puts her in a very small cage that requires her to remain in a crouched position while he rides away to raid and to "think" about their future together. When he returns at Midnight and releases her he explains his reasons, but that he now regrets doing it and they are off in each other's arms because, as it turns out, Kaylene has also been having hot dreams about him. I must admit...I don't much like doormat heroines. If someone gifted me with this lesson, I would gladly return the favor by giving him a lesson on why it is unwise to treat me like that and then release me into a position where I can lay my hands on blunt objects or other easily grabbed weapons, hot dreams or not. there are also several sub-plots that rotate around, but never really seem to connect with the main story and some are just left sort of hanging there (and don't even get me started on the little plot device used when our hero is brooding about how he can love someone who has such "bad" blood and suddenly it occurs to him she must be adopted, and Wow, what would be the odds he was right). Some of Cassie Edwards books are very good reads. This one, while not a total disaster is not her best work.