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suzysuzy34's review
5.0
Synopsis from the cover of the book: Maggie is a modern day woman with all her flaws, trust back into a time when men were carving out the history of America. She has just enough knowledge of the past to know trouble is coming, yet soon she is kicking herself for not playing better attention in history class. When she is captured by Winn, a warrior who is torn between is duty to kill her and his desire to keep her, she must adapt to a life she had only read about in history books.
Winn is a Seventeenth century Paspahegh warrior, born in a time before the English settlers arrived on the shores of the Tsenacomoco. He has learned the ways of the English and uses his knowledge to ensure the survival of his people, but when he finds a wounded woman in the woods his loyalty is put to the ultimate test.
Hunted an feared by both the Powhatan and the English, Maggie struggles to find a way home while Winn plots to keep here there. Maggie fights to survive and finds herself in The Massacre of 1622, and Winn sees everything he ever believed shattered by the knowledge she holds. With ties to both the past and future, their lives unfold among the stirrings of a new nation. Maggie and Winn risk everything to survive as the once powerful Powhatan Nation crumbled and the English build a country from the ashes.
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My words: Wow, it isn’t often I find a historical romance that I can get my teeth into and be hooked nowadays (my fav is contemporary) my favourite have always been Native American and this book was phenomenal, I absolutely loved it. The love story between Maggie and Winn was wonderful. The time reading about the Native Americans was engrossing, the scenes of The Massacre of 1662 were awful to read, but at the same time bought history to light. I hadn’t realised the Native Americans fought with the English so early as 1622 and used google to look up facts to find out more.
This book is available on Kindle Unlimited and Maggie and Winn’s story continues in book two called Return of the Pale Feather which I’m starting right away.
Winn is a Seventeenth century Paspahegh warrior, born in a time before the English settlers arrived on the shores of the Tsenacomoco. He has learned the ways of the English and uses his knowledge to ensure the survival of his people, but when he finds a wounded woman in the woods his loyalty is put to the ultimate test.
Hunted an feared by both the Powhatan and the English, Maggie struggles to find a way home while Winn plots to keep here there. Maggie fights to survive and finds herself in The Massacre of 1622, and Winn sees everything he ever believed shattered by the knowledge she holds. With ties to both the past and future, their lives unfold among the stirrings of a new nation. Maggie and Winn risk everything to survive as the once powerful Powhatan Nation crumbled and the English build a country from the ashes.
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My words: Wow, it isn’t often I find a historical romance that I can get my teeth into and be hooked nowadays (my fav is contemporary) my favourite have always been Native American and this book was phenomenal, I absolutely loved it. The love story between Maggie and Winn was wonderful. The time reading about the Native Americans was engrossing, the scenes of The Massacre of 1662 were awful to read, but at the same time bought history to light. I hadn’t realised the Native Americans fought with the English so early as 1622 and used google to look up facts to find out more.
This book is available on Kindle Unlimited and Maggie and Winn’s story continues in book two called Return of the Pale Feather which I’m starting right away.
socorrobaptista's review
4.0
Em uma viagem mágica no tempo, a jovem protagonista se vê no meio de uma disputa entre Ingleses e Indígenas no início da colonização dos Estados Unidos, no período entre a morte de Pocahontas (1617) e o grande massacre (1622). Não posso dizer que é uma narrativa histórica porque a narrativa se dá, quase em sua totalidade, em localidades nativas, que não tinham o hábito de registrar a história por meio da escrita, mas é um bela história de amor que nos permite pensar questões de gênero e pós-coloniais. Gostei muito.
kay_slayerofbooks's review
4.0
I LOVED this!!!
***Warning: There are spoilers in this review***
There were moments I wanted to slap the shit out of Maggie. She was totally getting on my nerves. But I still loved the story. As for her whole thing with Benjamin, how could she not recognize him? Granted I understand it had been over a decade since she last saw him but he couldn't have changed that much. Didn't he recognize her? Why didn't he say something? As for that asshole Mr. Taylor . . . If Maggie was supposed to be his niece from England how could they all not realize that she didn't have an English accent? So many eye rolls. But now I want to know what happens to Benjamin.
4 stars
***Warning: There are spoilers in this review***
There were moments I wanted to slap the shit out of Maggie. She was totally getting on my nerves. But I still loved the story. As for her whole thing with Benjamin, how could she not recognize him? Granted I understand it had been over a decade since she last saw him but he couldn't have changed that much. Didn't he recognize her? Why didn't he say something? As for that asshole Mr. Taylor . . . If Maggie was supposed to be his niece from England how could they all not realize that she didn't have an English accent? So many eye rolls. But now I want to know what happens to Benjamin.
4 stars
hooksbookswanderlust's review
4.0
Maybe it's because I'm a sucker for historical fiction. Maybe it's because I'm pretty sure that I was Native American in a past life. Maybe it's because I'm a bit of a sap for a good romance. Whatever it is, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The only thing keeping me from giving this 5 stars was that it really, REALLY needed the polishing of a good editor. From poor grammar to syntax errors and at times confusing inconsistency with time / scene changes and the way characters spoke, I found myself really looking for a red pen to mark it up. I can overlook the grammar and syntax errors, this was a freebie after all. But when Maggie starts the book with the cadence and vernacular of 2012 and then randomly switches to that of 1622, then back again, it was a bit strange, particularly because it was while she was alone with Winn, for whom she didn't have to guard her tongue. Also, the supposedly "English" spoke more of an Irish brogue it seemed than the cadence of 17th century English. Even Finola, Norse by origin, spoke with more brogue than anything, though Norsemen did influence Scots, so maybe I'm of base on her. I acknowledge that there were probably a fair share of Irish settlers but not likely of the class the characters we met in this book. So that left me pretty perplexed. But alas, I really did love the story and the characters. I have my theories about what happened to Maggie's mother and the identity of Pale Feather. We shall see if I'm correct!
amynbell's review
3.0
Here's the thing. I don't like bodice-ripping (or buckskin-ripping) romances. I tend to read all the steamy scenes as, "she kissed his blah blah blah and blahed his blah blah blah." As such, I'm obviously the wrong audience for this book since the first half of the book has far too much "quivering" (x3), "shaking" (x48), and "shivering" (x14) for my tastes.
So why did I read it? It was chosen as our book of the month for our time travel book club. Since the time travel in the novel takes the main character, Maggie, to colonial America to live among the Powhatans, I was very interested in reading it. However, it was just not my cup of tea.
Had the first half of the book been more like the last half of the book, I think I would have liked it better. In the first half of the book, the focal point is the romance between Maggie and a Powhatan warrior named Winn. However, the Maggie of the first half of the book has quite an explosive personality. She bristles, thrashes, and rages at everything. Of course, she's not used to the rules of conduct of women in a Powhatan village and does not relish being the "slave" and "property" of Winn. I can understand the sentiment, but it's one thing to be dropped into the 1960s and bristle at such social mores and quite another thing to be dropped into the 1622s and expect to be able to behave as an equal to the men around you. Many of the misadventures that Maggie has in the first half of the book are a result of her quick temper. However, there are too many times when she explodes as a result of practically nothing. Maybe some men like that? Anyhow, it makes for an interesting character, but I think her temper is a little too extreme to be realistic. At least I'd like to think so.
The last half of the book seems like almost a different book entirely. There is an interesting storyline as the Powhatans plot against the English and visa versa, various people get kidnapped, the romance is toned down from a 10 to a 5, and Maggie's temper has been tamed. Whereas I would give the first half of the book 2 stars, the second half gets 4 stars.
I have to say, though, that my favorite line in the book is a typo. Well, at least I hope it's a typo: "Maggie watched as Winn said something tense to the man and waved his question off, shaking his head, while pushing a bowel of food into the man’s hands as if to distract him." I know I'd be distracted by a bowel of food being shoved into my hands!
I do think that certain readers would really love this book. If I did enjoy an erotic romance to go along with my colonial literary fiction, I might have given the book 4 or 5 stars. The book is well-written (minus the bowel incident and a few other typos), well-researched, and chock full of history. Plus, Winn is a drool-worthy character that fan girls would certainly love to put on the same pedestal as all their other lust-worthy book men. I was imagining a male version of Pocahontas from the movie "The New World" (played by Q'orianka Kilcher). Perhaps her brother Kainoa would fit the role. And of course, Wes Studi has to be Opechancanough as he is in "The New World". However, for me, this book is just a 3-star book by no fault of the author.
So why did I read it? It was chosen as our book of the month for our time travel book club. Since the time travel in the novel takes the main character, Maggie, to colonial America to live among the Powhatans, I was very interested in reading it. However, it was just not my cup of tea.
Had the first half of the book been more like the last half of the book, I think I would have liked it better. In the first half of the book, the focal point is the romance between Maggie and a Powhatan warrior named Winn. However, the Maggie of the first half of the book has quite an explosive personality. She bristles, thrashes, and rages at everything. Of course, she's not used to the rules of conduct of women in a Powhatan village and does not relish being the "slave" and "property" of Winn. I can understand the sentiment, but it's one thing to be dropped into the 1960s and bristle at such social mores and quite another thing to be dropped into the 1622s and expect to be able to behave as an equal to the men around you. Many of the misadventures that Maggie has in the first half of the book are a result of her quick temper. However, there are too many times when she explodes as a result of practically nothing. Maybe some men like that? Anyhow, it makes for an interesting character, but I think her temper is a little too extreme to be realistic. At least I'd like to think so.
The last half of the book seems like almost a different book entirely. There is an interesting storyline as the Powhatans plot against the English and visa versa, various people get kidnapped, the romance is toned down from a 10 to a 5, and Maggie's temper has been tamed. Whereas I would give the first half of the book 2 stars, the second half gets 4 stars.
I have to say, though, that my favorite line in the book is a typo. Well, at least I hope it's a typo: "Maggie watched as Winn said something tense to the man and waved his question off, shaking his head, while pushing a bowel of food into the man’s hands as if to distract him." I know I'd be distracted by a bowel of food being shoved into my hands!
I do think that certain readers would really love this book. If I did enjoy an erotic romance to go along with my colonial literary fiction, I might have given the book 4 or 5 stars. The book is well-written (minus the bowel incident and a few other typos), well-researched, and chock full of history. Plus, Winn is a drool-worthy character that fan girls would certainly love to put on the same pedestal as all their other lust-worthy book men. I was imagining a male version of Pocahontas from the movie "The New World" (played by Q'orianka Kilcher). Perhaps her brother Kainoa would fit the role. And of course, Wes Studi has to be Opechancanough as he is in "The New World". However, for me, this book is just a 3-star book by no fault of the author.
victoriaalexander's review
3.0
Bodice rippers are tedious reading, but I am a big fan of time travel stories so, decided to give this one a go.
Maggie, a twentieth century woman, travels back to early colonial times. She meets up with a sexy Brave and for awhile, the story is all about him telling her what to do (appropriate for the time period), her resisting, then usually submitting.
That's the tedious part.
This turned out to be a page-turning story with a good historical base. I liked it well enough to read the next three books, learning to skip over the overdone love scenes and be carried away with the characters and their challenges.
I think this gifted storyteller would benefit by some good editing.
Maggie, a twentieth century woman, travels back to early colonial times. She meets up with a sexy Brave and for awhile, the story is all about him telling her what to do (appropriate for the time period), her resisting, then usually submitting.
That's the tedious part.
This turned out to be a page-turning story with a good historical base. I liked it well enough to read the next three books, learning to skip over the overdone love scenes and be carried away with the characters and their challenges.
I think this gifted storyteller would benefit by some good editing.
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