Apache Wind

Apache #1

by Carol Finch

He is a half-breed Apache, framed for murder and on the run. She is a bold lady lawyer, honor-bound by an old family debt to clear his name. When he takes her as his hostage on a perilous journey through the rugged Guadeloupe Mountains, their world's collide in a searing blaze of unforgettable desire as untamed as the wild Apache wind!

Genres: Western Historical Romance

446 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1993

About the author

A pseudonym used by Connie Feddersen.

Connie is well known for her fast-paced adventures, sparkling humor and lively dialogue. She is the best-selling author of historical and contemporary romance, as well as mystery and suspense. Writing under 5 pen names—Carol Finch, Gina Robins, Connie Drake, Debra Falcon and Connie Feddersen—she has penned 57 books for Zebra and Pinnacle Publishers.

Connie and her husband have 3 children and raise cattle and wheat on their ranch near Union City, Oklahoma.

Reviews

[ann_zack_cee_am_ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

I rather like this storyline despite it’s controversial rape threat from the hero to heroine (although it was meant to be a harmless joke to scare the heroine) and also demeaning remarks about the hero being a half Native but like one of the readers said, you can’t turn a blind eye to things that could happen in reality to take it with a grain of salt. It’s purely fantasy, don’t bring political correctness on a fiction meant to be a fantasy for readers. This book has a lot of the 80’s HR trappings like the miscommunications, spitfire heroine who is too for hero but always melts at the slightest kiss. The cliches and that. But I love how their love really blossoms towards the end when Tempest got shot. The funniest part would be when she lost command of her senses under an influence of Apache medicines so she started to ramble on about all the good things about Cord to Cord, not knowing that she was talking to Cord😅🤣

[Amarylisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

เรื่องนี้เป็นเรื่องแรกที่อ่านนิยายของ carol finch ปูฉากหลังแบบตะวันตกได้ดีมาก หลายเรื่องที่เป็นแนวคาวบอยหรือตะวันตกที่เคยอ่านแทบไม่ได้ความรู้สึกแบบนี้เลย อ่านแล้วทำให้รู้สึกว่าได้เดินทางผจญแดนตะวันตก ทุ่งหญ้า น้ำตก ภูเขา ไปกับพระเอกนางเอกด้วย เรื่องหลักๆก็คือพระเอกหนีคดีที่ตัวเองโดนใส่ร้าย เลยวางแผนจะแก้แค้นด้วยการลักพาตัวคู่หมั้นของฝ่ายตรงข้าม แต่ลักพาตัวผิดคน กลายเป็นนางเอกแทน ซึ่งตัวนางเอกนั้นเป็นทนายความที่ตั้งใจมาว่าความแก้ต่างให้พระเอก

[Terryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thoroughly enjoyed this book. It kept me entertained with plenty of action, romance etc. Yes, this book does have a forced marriage / rape storyline to it but when are people going to understand that these things did and still happen. You can't just turn a blind eye to it. He is a half breed out for revenge while she is at the wrong place at the wrong time and gets caught in the drama. He drags her everywhere, more like a prisoner than a so-called wife. HEA ending.

[Mercury & Jupiter · Rating 2 out of 5]

TRIGGER WARNING: forced marriage, rape culture

My facebook reviews:

Apache Wind: Claims to actually be about an Apache this time, but his name is Cord MacIntosh.

Apache Wind is the worst thing I've ever read. If I ever meet the author, I'm going to kick her in the shin.

Depression: "This vital, dynamic man had turned sullen, and no one could draw any emotion from him. He merely existed--like a hollow shell abandoned by a turtle."

Sex: "His hard, penetrating thrust sent her spiraling through a universe of glittering rainbows and warm sunshine. It was such a satisfying paradox to be held in his arms and yet experience a unique sense of freedom to soar like a wild, free bird."

"Odd, Tempest thought as she was consumed by an incredible rapture."


So the hero was constantly referred to in the narrative as "this man"
or "this giant of a man." The heroine was called "high-strung" at least once a chapter for objecting to being kidnapped, married against her will, and essentially raped by this giant of a man. She's also repeatedly referred to as naive, which the author seems to think is a synonym for virgin. It got weird when she was called naive and a cynic in the same paragraph. Repeatedly.

The kidnapping was a somewhat understandable case of mistaken identity, but then came the forced marriage, which didn't really happen for any good reason. They were married by a friend of the hero's, who fully understood that the heroine was being kidnapped and raped, and had a good laugh about it. During the ceremony, she tried to say "I do not," but it came out as "I do--ouch!" because he pinched her. You'd think, being a "lady lawyer," that she would know that she wasn't legally bound to the kidnapper who signed her name for her on the marriage certificate, but hey, she was never shown to actually be any good at her job.

So the novel was basically coercive sex scenes that she always came around to because he was handsome, laughably overwrought metaphors, and him forcing her to confront her fear of heights by dangling her over the sides of mountains and then making fun of her for being high-strung. I admit it wasn't actually, literally the worst thing I've ever read, but it wasn't good.

Oh, and the heroine's name was Tempest Litchfield. The hero demonstrated his razor-sharp wit by constantly referring to her as "Miss Witchfield," emphasis not mine.

-Mercury