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Savage #14
Savage Devotion
Sailing the deep, clear waters of the Puget Sound, beautiful red-haired Janice Edwards is bound for a new beginning. Leaving behind the wealth and luxury she's known in San Francisco, she hopes to find a simpler, sweeter life in the towering forests of Tacoma ... and a man who will love her for who she is, not what she has. But when the steamer Hope is wrecked by a sudden storm, Janice is rescued by a man like none she's ever known. Tall, with muscular limbs and a powerful chest revealed by his buckskin clothing, he is a Skokomish Indian-from all she's heard, a savage to be feared. Yet in his gray eyes she sees tender caring, in his strong arms she discovers untold passion, and in his wild heart she will find ... savage devotion.
390 pages, Paperback
First published June 30, 2000
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About the author
Cassie Edwards
163 books419 followersEdwards began writing romances in 1982 and released her 100th novel, Savage Skies, on August 28, 2007. Although her earlier books were classic historical romances, the vast majority of her novels involve Native American tribes. Edwards's grandmother was a full-blooded Cheyenne. Her first 99 books sold a combined 10 million copies as of August 2007, with her more recent novels averaging sales of 250,000–350,000 copies.
Edwards has won the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award and the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, as well as being named one of Affaire de Coeur's top ten favorite romance writers. Edwards has a reputation for meticulously researching the proper anthropological backgrounds of each tribe she writes about.
Edwards and her husband Charles, a retired high school biology teacher, have been married for over 50 years. They have two sons, Charles and Brian, and three grandchildren. The family lived in St. Louis, Missouri for over thirty years, but now reside in Mattoon, Illinois.
Edwards has won the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award and the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, as well as being named one of Affaire de Coeur's top ten favorite romance writers. Edwards has a reputation for meticulously researching the proper anthropological backgrounds of each tribe she writes about.
Edwards and her husband Charles, a retired high school biology teacher, have been married for over 50 years. They have two sons, Charles and Brian, and three grandchildren. The family lived in St. Louis, Missouri for over thirty years, but now reside in Mattoon, Illinois.
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July 9, 2021
Heartwarming. Edward's definitely knows how to write happy endings.
November 12, 2015
I am waiting until I complete this review to actually assign this book a star rating. Maybe I will be able to decide what I want to rate it by then.
Allrighty, here it goes. First off, this book was an incredible cliche of romance novels (which actually made me like it more). This story is simple, cliched, dramatic, and oh so very cheesy. Yes, those can be turn offs but sometimes it's nice to read something simple. I also have to take into consideration when it was written. The book I have is copyrighted 2000 and yes, that is only 15 years ago but so many things change in that span that it is impossible to really judge it by the romances of now.
This book has the stereotypical things: hot & compassionate heroine, strong and willful hero, and *drumroll please* insta-love! I love insta-love it insta-makes me sick but in the way that you can't just look away, like a car wreck. It was so dramatic that I felt like I was watching a soap opera. I mean seriously, swooning heroine, strapping young hero at her beck and call, who could want more???
As I said, this was a super simple read and I think that's what I liked about it. Many romance novels are part of a series and quite a few series actually build up for the next book and then you need to remember certain events in the 2nd book that are going to happen in the 22nd book and so on. Don't get me wrong, generally speaking I prefer this but it is also nice to just read a book with no worries like that. Details weren't hugely important and you could pretty much figure out what was happening.
The one thing that bugged me was the overuse of exclamation points and the ellipsis (...) example, "would...they...each want a part of her?" (Pg. 39). This is where I get to the over-done drama which made me laugh because it was so ridiculous. So each time there was an ellipsis I imagined a tv show where the heroine is fainting like the classical stereotypical faint, the whole, hand against forehead and gracefully collapse on a chaise type of faint. Yes, really, this is what it reminded me of.
All in all, I did like the book, it was simple, interesing, maybe not historically accurate but generally I don't care, and of course insta-love! Yay insta-love! Now to explain the four star rating: I see it like this, I needed something different to read, I've never read anything by Cassie Edwards before and it seemed like a good idea. Also, I had to think about it from a different point of view, when romances were overly dramatic, thats what made them desirable. I really did like the book so if you really want a corny, insta-love, overly dramatic love story this is for you!
Allrighty, here it goes. First off, this book was an incredible cliche of romance novels (which actually made me like it more). This story is simple, cliched, dramatic, and oh so very cheesy. Yes, those can be turn offs but sometimes it's nice to read something simple. I also have to take into consideration when it was written. The book I have is copyrighted 2000 and yes, that is only 15 years ago but so many things change in that span that it is impossible to really judge it by the romances of now.
This book has the stereotypical things: hot & compassionate heroine, strong and willful hero, and *drumroll please* insta-love! I love insta-love it insta-makes me sick but in the way that you can't just look away, like a car wreck. It was so dramatic that I felt like I was watching a soap opera. I mean seriously, swooning heroine, strapping young hero at her beck and call, who could want more???
As I said, this was a super simple read and I think that's what I liked about it. Many romance novels are part of a series and quite a few series actually build up for the next book and then you need to remember certain events in the 2nd book that are going to happen in the 22nd book and so on. Don't get me wrong, generally speaking I prefer this but it is also nice to just read a book with no worries like that. Details weren't hugely important and you could pretty much figure out what was happening.
The one thing that bugged me was the overuse of exclamation points and the ellipsis (...) example, "would...they...each want a part of her?" (Pg. 39). This is where I get to the over-done drama which made me laugh because it was so ridiculous. So each time there was an ellipsis I imagined a tv show where the heroine is fainting like the classical stereotypical faint, the whole, hand against forehead and gracefully collapse on a chaise type of faint. Yes, really, this is what it reminded me of.
All in all, I did like the book, it was simple, interesing, maybe not historically accurate but generally I don't care, and of course insta-love! Yay insta-love! Now to explain the four star rating: I see it like this, I needed something different to read, I've never read anything by Cassie Edwards before and it seemed like a good idea. Also, I had to think about it from a different point of view, when romances were overly dramatic, thats what made them desirable. I really did like the book so if you really want a corny, insta-love, overly dramatic love story this is for you!
September 16, 2017
I really love Cassie Edwards and have read almost all of her books. I love books about the Native Americans because you really get to see how life was for them and Cassie Edwards makes you feel like you're with them during everything. Great author.
August 6, 2018
Reading these books again are absolutely wonderful. Forgot how much I love them.
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