Savage Hope

I just finished reading "Savage Hope" by Cassie Edwards. Generally I enjoy her series. But there are some things that trouble me. First, the men depicted on the covers and even in the photograph on the inner cover, are not Native Americans. They are very clearly white men given copper skin and straight black hair, but their features are in no way Asiatic the way American Indians really look.

Given that Ms. Edwards has some Native American ancestry I'm surprised she lets this kind of thing go on. It's insulting really. The whole point of these books is overcoming prejudice and two races coming together in love and harmony. So why make them look like they are really the same race and there are really no characteristic differences?

The book itself kept me reading but it was a bit disappointing. The heroine was too sweet and the hero was too perfect also. They had one disagreement and that was all. The whole conflict was based on outsiders: a villain who wanted the girl for himself and was willing to do anything, even murder, to get her, and society's prejudice against interracial marriage.

So this one doesn't get four stars. But in general I enjoy her work and I certainly will go back for more. Just a little more conflict between the main characters, please. I like a Hollywood romance where they fight until they fall in love.

Maybe the next romance will be more like that.