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Though she was born in the East, Kaylee Matthews took to the west like a duck to water. She loves the freedom of the wide open spaces, the beauty of the land. While riding with her neighbor, Randy, Kaylee discovers a wounded Indian. Against Randy's wishes, Kaylee insists on taking the Indian to an empty line shack and nursing him back to health, the way she did with the all the wounded creatures she found. Wounded and left for dead, Blue Hawk is prepared to die even though it means abandoning all hope of avenging himself on the white men who betrayed him. While waiting for death, he receives a startling vision before losing consciousness. On awaking, he finds himself being tended by the white woman in his vision. When he's strong enough to return home, Blue Hawk steals a horse and takes Kaylee with him, intending to trade her back to her family for weapons for his tribe. But somewhere along the way, distrust turns to love and attraction turns to desire, leaving them to wonder if they can heal old hurts and find a way to bridge the differences between them.
- Sales Rank: #15818975 in Books
- Published on: 2008-11-01
- Format: Large Print
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 10.50" h x .79" w x 8.25" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 348 pages
About the Author
Madeline Baker started writing simply for the fun of it. Now she is the award-winning author of more than thirty historical romance books and one of the most popular writers of Native American romance. She lives in California, where she was born and raised.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Beautiful and Timeless Love Story
By Brett
This story was a very sweet, very engaging, and very emotional story from start to finish! I read this book after reading Madeline Baker's Native American romance novel First Love, Wild Love. First thing's first, both books are great. But this book had more plot threads happening that tied up in a satisfying way than First Love, Wild Love did. I see First Love, Wild Love as a A-to-B love story. But Lakota Love Song was a love story with opening and closings in regards to concepts (Mato's vision) and character arcs (Shaun Randall).
Lakota Love Song is about a young woman named Kaylee who comes across a wounded Lakota warrior named Blue Hawk. She takes him into a nearby shack to dress and clean his wounds, despite the fact that her people and his people are at war. Blue Hawk is intrigued with her, mostly because he saw her once in a vision. When Blue Hawk attacks Kaylee's friend Randy, Blue Hawk threatens the young man's life, making Kaylee promise to return him to his people in exchange for Randy's life. During the time spent with Blue Hawk and the Lakota, Kaylee notices Blue Hawk's kindness and gentleness towards her, and they slowly discover feelings for one another, in the midst of constant strife between their people.
This story definitely had its tedious moments, like the detailed descriptions of the Native American way of life (which is okay in small amounts, but this book decided it wanted to be a textbook for a few pages instead of a novel) and the daily grind of an army recruit. But there were plenty of tender moments, sad moments, and intense moments. And the last quarter of the book was actually very well done! I was worried it would be like the last quarter of First Love, Wild Love, but thankfully it was not! Oh, and beware of repetition. Because this book and First Love, Wild Love are both about a Lakota male lead, the author practically copies and pastes plenty of details from one to the other, such as descriptions of the Black Hills (Paha Sapa), Crazy Horse, and the Sun Dance. That makes parts of the story skimmable. She did sneak a few new things, though, so there's that I guess.....
Would I read this book again? Sure! The love story was sweet and didn't rush itself. There were a lot of memorable moments, so I definitely recommend this to historical romance lovers!
Also...the ending was not something I would have predicted EVER. It's not a twist, but it's an event that almost takes place...scary!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
LOVED IT
By Dawn
++Spoilers++
4.5 stars
I really loved this book. Not quite a 5 star read for reasons I will later explain.
Tales of native Americans are always heartbreaking for me. There is no happy ending for these people. It breaks my heart how this beautiful race of people were treated, and thrown into virtual extinction.
Don't get me wrong, this book does have a HEA for the h & H romantically but I just felt so depressed about Blue Hawks people, even he knew there was no future for Native Americans.
But anyway..
The first half of the book I liked best. I loved reading about what life was like living with the Lakotas. I was so glad the heroine chose her heart and decided to stay with Blue Hawk and his people (if only for a while).
Their love was beautiful, fated. He just lived and breathed her and she him.
They were both vigins and each others firsts, and I have to say this author deserves a tremendous amount of praise on how she handled it. She did it PERFECTLY. How? By not making a big deal about it. For example, in the first loving scene she says to him.."I've never.." and he says "neither have I.. we will find our way together." PERIOD! He's not a virgin because he was tormented, cold, insane, abused, scarred, an outcast.. nor is he overly religious or pious. He just was a virgin. Why is it that authors nowadays feel that being a male virgin means something is wrong with him. I didn't question it at all. I totally accepted it as a reader. I also LOVED that there is absolutely NO mention of past women. In one instance, Kaylee asked.."did you ever court any women?" his answer.... "no." That was it! I Loved it!!! There was no jealousy of ex girlfriends or other women who wanted him or lusted after him. WELL DONE!!! A breath of fresh air!
There was however a question Kaylee asked Blue Hawk about having multiple wives. She asked if his people have more than one wife. He said yes. And basically it was said he only wanted her, and she said she didn't want to share him. He goes on to explain how she could, if she wanted, have more than one husband (not that he'd want it, it was just an explaination of his people's customs). Needless to say, they only wanted each other.
I started getting anxiety when Kaylee (heroine) thought Blue Hawk was dead and decided to go back home with the army. But fear not! All works out in the end. I wont give out too much, so as to not ruin it for you, but no worries. Trust me.
What brought down the stars for me was a combination of things. First, much of the book has the heroine acting exactly as I would have until about 65%. Until she wanted to go home. I couldn't fault her for wanting to make sure her mother was ok, but part of me was hoping they would stay with his tribe. They didn't. In truth, it was impossible, and the H & h knew that. It would have been a life of constant war for Blue Hawk, and as much as I wanted them to go back to the indians, it could have meant him being killed in a fight. So I guess I really can't lower a star because of this, it was logical for them to stay in the "white world." But I HAD to lower a half a star for how quickly the townspeople changed from lynching Blue Hawk to accepting him. It was too fast. I'm glad it was fast and that they did accept him, but it felt unrealistic. I also felt the heroine whimped out by giving into the sherriff. I wanted them to run off together, back to his tribe after escaping him the first time.
Well.. it all worked out in the end anyway.
On a technical note, the story has lots of wonderful history that is interlaced with the story as to not sound like a history lesson. I loved it but others may not. The pace was slow and steady up until about 90% and then we get slammed with all sorts of emotional issues that literally get resolved by the near end. The conflict was pretty good, mild at times but enough to keep me interested.
The epilogue was ok. I would have rather have had a few more chapters than this summary crammed full of what happened 2 years later. All good things! Happiness, babies.. etc.. but I still left this read with such sorrow about how Kaylee and Blue Hawks children will not be raised in indian fashion. The loss of his culture just weighed heavy on my heart, just as it did for him.
But logically he knew the world was changing and his children would have a better life raised in the white world.
Overall I loved this book, I would definately would recommend and will look into more of this authors work.
Safety
Hero-Virgin
Heroine-Virgin
OW-NONE WHATSOEVER
Cursing-No
Violence- Yes. Talk of scalping, mutilating, but not detailed in description.
Rape-No
Adultry-No
HEA- Yes for the romance, no for the Native Americans as a whole. But we already know this.
Marriage-Yes - In the traditional Native American fashion
Babies-Ye
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Nice, light read
By FenHarel
Lakota Love Song is the first of its genre I've ever indulged in, but for the exceptional e-book price ($1.99), I felt adventurous enough to give it a try.
Baker does her homework and it shows in this book as she makes the effort to expose the reader to Lakota culture in a way that's interesting and enlightening. Her character, Blue Hawk, is brave, noble, amiable, and easy to fall in love with.
There was a lull in the middle of the book where the love scenes grew redundant and the pace slowed tremendously, but when you reach the final few chapters you'll feel it was worth the push as the climax will leave you on the edge of your seat until the final page.
I would recommend it for western lovers who are looking for an light, easy romance to read.
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