I've had this book for a few years, read it twice, and enjoyed it as much the 1st time as the 2nd.
After her hell and brimstone preacher father died, Victorine Wellesley went to live with her older brother and his wife. Being so much older, she really doesn't know him well only that he is following in his father's footsteps as a preacher. Her brother is determined to take his religion to this untamed land and to the Flathead tribe, certain of his calling and that they will be welcome. (Anybody love the movie JEREMIAH JOHNSON?)
What their little party finds is a Blackfoot war party. Victorine watches as her brother, sister in-law and the remainder of their small party is massacred. She, herself, is taken as slave to a warrior...and so the story begins.
Great characterization. The Scottish mountain man, Cougar, is a larger than life hero. The man is as wild as his spirit name, fearless yet honorable, Alpha to the extreme and as unfettered as his beautiful Rocky mountains.
On the other hand, Victorine evoked little empathy from me. Her stubborn negativity soon got on my last nerve half way through the book. This might have been due to the fact that her characterization enhanced that side of her and not on the development of why she behaved as she did.
After her hell and brimstone preacher father died, Victorine Wellesley went to live with her older brother and his wife. Being so much older, she really doesn't know him well only that he is following in his father's footsteps as a preacher. Her brother is determined to take his religion to this untamed land and to the Flathead tribe, certain of his calling and that they will be welcome. (Anybody love the movie JEREMIAH JOHNSON?)
What their little party finds is a Blackfoot war party. Victorine watches as her brother, sister in-law and the remainder of their small party is massacred. She, herself, is taken as slave to a warrior...and so the story begins.
Great characterization. The Scottish mountain man, Cougar, is a larger than life hero. The man is as wild as his spirit name, fearless yet honorable, Alpha to the extreme and as unfettered as his beautiful Rocky mountains.
On the other hand, Victorine evoked little empathy from me. Her stubborn negativity soon got on my last nerve half way through the book. This might have been due to the fact that her characterization enhanced that side of her and not on the development of why she behaved as she did.
