![]() I re-read it every year and have been doing so for the last 10 years. ![]() Then I suggest you pick this book right away and start reading ~~ it will be one book that you will never forget. It gave me moments of pure joy in addition to moments in which I bawled my eyes out. Still, the whole story seemed very real to me. Now of course, this book is a work of fiction becuase Robson took many liberties by filling in things that were missing from the actual historical record. Finally, she decided that she had to write out Cynthia's story. The more she read about Cynthia, the more she was hooked. One day, she came across some information about a person named Cynthia Ann Parker and how she grew up with the Comanche tribe. Though it can be considered a historical romance, there is nothing fairy taleish about it that is characteristic of so many other romance novels. What stands out about Robson's writing is that everything seems so real. Since highschool, I have re-read the book many times and each time I read, it's as if I'm revisting old friends.To put it simply, this was one of the first books that made me love reading. The cover was even missing! She just looked at me and said, "Read it." I was rather turned off by the disheveled look of the book, but nonethless I promptly took it home and winded up spending the next three days locked up in my room. When I was in highschool, my best friend handed me a tattered, worn out, pages- falling- out- of- it book. If you never read another book.READ THIS BOOK. I think about it for weeks after each time I finish it. Nothing else I have ever read even comes close. I've tried to find any and all the information I can about Naduah. I cannot wait til my children are old enough to read this book. I have 2 copies that have never been open tucked away in a safe place just in case. I have bought so many copies of this book for friends hoping that they will have the same reaction I have had. I have always had a interest in Indian culture and anyone who has the slightest interest in Native Americans or the west should read this book. ![]() Several times after I finished the book I just had to contact Lucia and tell her how moved I am each time I read it. And when Wanderer goes to the river the night before facing Placido and remembers Naduah from the first day when he captured her is so emotional I can hardly read through my tears. The chapter where Naduah is in the tent with Molly tears my heart out everytime I read it. It made me laugh and especially made me cry and mourn the loss of the great Comanche Nation. And I did exactly what the back of the book says. ![]() From the very first page I was completly hooked. I have read it probably 20 times (the first time being about 20 yrs ago) and each time I finish I cant wait to read it again. It puts you right there in the Comanche camp. The detail and research in her writing cannot be matched. The story of Cynthia Ann Parker is fascinating and Lucia is brilliant in her storytelling. ![]() This is without a doubt the best book I have ever read. ![]()
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