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Nakoa's Woman
The tale of a beautiful white girl who is captured by the Blackfoot Indian warrior Nakoa, and of their stormy relationship as she struggles against her growing love for her captor and he struggles against the customs of his people. A large cast of vivid characters surrounds the young lovers as they work out their fates.
'Previously published as THE SECOND KISS, 1972, by Gayle Rogers Brown'
'Previously published as THE SECOND KISS, 1972, by Gayle Rogers Brown'
339 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1972
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May 24, 2016
I've read this book, expecting to find the story of a couple separated by not only skin color but different heritages and how they would rise above the hindrances keeping them from loving each other.
I am not of the delusion plagued crowd that would find it impossible to accept a hero that mistreated the heroine in any way and I can safely say that I can muster a lot of understanding for different time eras and cultures and the way these played a part in the treatment of women, social customs and the possibilities for romance. So I could appreciate stories even if they held aspects that would, under other conditions, infuriate me (to name but one series that also featured a white girl taken captive by an Indian and even physically mistreated by the hero along the way, I'll list the Grey Eagle series by Janelle Taylor as one that would occasionally show small rays of light among all the dark and despair in form of joy of life and blooming love).
Believing that after great suffering, came great joy, would be a lie. Unlike with Grey Eagle, I could not warm towards the "romance" here and deeply regret reading the book for it has brought me nothing but a heavy heart. Had I but known there would be not even a semblance of a Happy End, I wouldn't have read it. So now I'll warn anyone who wants to find comfort in the knowledge that deep pain and suffering would lead to at least a tiny bit of happiness. That is not the case.
To be honest, I cannot credit either the hero's nor the heroine's "love" to be anything but a sham and believe that the story line would better be described as the sad journey of a woman falling into insanity. After suffering the deaths of all her family, the heroine is but a broken shell and develops a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder and de-personalization. She's edging on schizophrenia and her self is split and shattered. This process is further encouraged by the hero's actions and in spite of what he asks of her ("to accept all her selves and let them be as one"), he actually causes more splintering by his actions.
As the deeply shaken heroine was left trying to hold herself together after having lost every single person she ever held dear, he pushes and probes and in doing so sets the ball rolling on its deadly way of destruction. She believes herself to be falling in love with him, when actually she is acting in a crazed notion to keep from shattering completely psychologically. With everything being torn from her, her brain frantically tried to grasp for straws -any- that would prove her to be still living. So she managed to tell herself that she loved him and clawing onto that hope -or better yet: goal- she let herself be sucked deeper and deeper into the deadly spiral. Her portrayed dreams show all the signs of a deeply instable person, and actions when awake tell the same story. Now this might be better than her psyche shutting down and her sitting on the floor staring blindly into thin air while screaming bloody murder till kingdom come but it is definitely not a story of romance but a psychological drama unfolding in all its ugliness. And as for her going insane, I believe it accomplished fully at the end of the book.
As for the hero, I can only say that I could not find the tiniest bit to like or believe of his so called love. While in all other books of similar topic, the hero at some point becomes at least the tiniest bit more gentle in answer to the heroine yielding to him, his culture and her fate, this hero does not give a damn. Period. There's much to be said about adapting to another culture and accepting other customs but in his so called love, he cannot reach out to her just once. While his culture would have actually allowed him to have just one wife, if he really wished to do so, he stood by his demand to have another/others anyways.The heroine's given up everything, her language, her way of life, her people and he would not even grant her the peace of having him for herself in the few moments he would not have to hunt or go to war, on a daily path on the thin line of death. Symbolically you could say that instead than reaching out to her, as one would normally do towards anyone he loved (or even anyone else he felt a need to help at that), he turns his back on her on purpose to make it even harder.
This book will leave you with a bitter heart because it only shows the ugliness of that time and does not grant even a single person a happy end. Everyone either dies or loses things that are important to him/her, be it loved ones, position within their people or their sanity. While Shakespeare wrote tragedies that unfolded into ugliness, his stories always held this shred of goodness in its center, so you would cry that they died when they had loved so much. Or Titanic..while you would cry for Rose and Jack and what could have been had he lived, the story transports a message of hope and strength that encourages to fight and live on. The ugliness of tragedy is somewhat confined from being just that -ugly and all consuming bitter- by showing the tiny flashes of hope and life itself in living. "Nakoa's Woman" only projects tragedy and ridicules any shred of hope. It's like walking in a canyon of stone and nothing else and when coming upon a flower on the way, it has to be crushed in the most painful way.
If you want to read a real tragedy and find your heart cry out for each of the characters in despair, then this is the book for you. Me, I only regret reading it as I was not prepared for it all to end in misery - for everyone. Whether they believe themselves to be miserable may be questioned, yes, but in my eyes they are all to be pitied and I feel sorrow in my heart.
I am not of the delusion plagued crowd that would find it impossible to accept a hero that mistreated the heroine in any way and I can safely say that I can muster a lot of understanding for different time eras and cultures and the way these played a part in the treatment of women, social customs and the possibilities for romance. So I could appreciate stories even if they held aspects that would, under other conditions, infuriate me (to name but one series that also featured a white girl taken captive by an Indian and even physically mistreated by the hero along the way, I'll list the Grey Eagle series by Janelle Taylor as one that would occasionally show small rays of light among all the dark and despair in form of joy of life and blooming love).
Believing that after great suffering, came great joy, would be a lie. Unlike with Grey Eagle, I could not warm towards the "romance" here and deeply regret reading the book for it has brought me nothing but a heavy heart. Had I but known there would be not even a semblance of a Happy End, I wouldn't have read it. So now I'll warn anyone who wants to find comfort in the knowledge that deep pain and suffering would lead to at least a tiny bit of happiness. That is not the case.
To be honest, I cannot credit either the hero's nor the heroine's "love" to be anything but a sham and believe that the story line would better be described as the sad journey of a woman falling into insanity. After suffering the deaths of all her family, the heroine is but a broken shell and develops a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder and de-personalization. She's edging on schizophrenia and her self is split and shattered. This process is further encouraged by the hero's actions and in spite of what he asks of her ("to accept all her selves and let them be as one"), he actually causes more splintering by his actions.
As the deeply shaken heroine was left trying to hold herself together after having lost every single person she ever held dear, he pushes and probes and in doing so sets the ball rolling on its deadly way of destruction. She believes herself to be falling in love with him, when actually she is acting in a crazed notion to keep from shattering completely psychologically. With everything being torn from her, her brain frantically tried to grasp for straws -any- that would prove her to be still living. So she managed to tell herself that she loved him and clawing onto that hope -or better yet: goal- she let herself be sucked deeper and deeper into the deadly spiral. Her portrayed dreams show all the signs of a deeply instable person, and actions when awake tell the same story. Now this might be better than her psyche shutting down and her sitting on the floor staring blindly into thin air while screaming bloody murder till kingdom come but it is definitely not a story of romance but a psychological drama unfolding in all its ugliness. And as for her going insane, I believe it accomplished fully at the end of the book.
As for the hero, I can only say that I could not find the tiniest bit to like or believe of his so called love. While in all other books of similar topic, the hero at some point becomes at least the tiniest bit more gentle in answer to the heroine yielding to him, his culture and her fate, this hero does not give a damn. Period. There's much to be said about adapting to another culture and accepting other customs but in his so called love, he cannot reach out to her just once. While his culture would have actually allowed him to have just one wife, if he really wished to do so, he stood by his demand to have another/others anyways.The heroine's given up everything, her language, her way of life, her people and he would not even grant her the peace of having him for herself in the few moments he would not have to hunt or go to war, on a daily path on the thin line of death. Symbolically you could say that instead than reaching out to her, as one would normally do towards anyone he loved (or even anyone else he felt a need to help at that), he turns his back on her on purpose to make it even harder.
This book will leave you with a bitter heart because it only shows the ugliness of that time and does not grant even a single person a happy end. Everyone either dies or loses things that are important to him/her, be it loved ones, position within their people or their sanity. While Shakespeare wrote tragedies that unfolded into ugliness, his stories always held this shred of goodness in its center, so you would cry that they died when they had loved so much. Or Titanic..while you would cry for Rose and Jack and what could have been had he lived, the story transports a message of hope and strength that encourages to fight and live on. The ugliness of tragedy is somewhat confined from being just that -ugly and all consuming bitter- by showing the tiny flashes of hope and life itself in living. "Nakoa's Woman" only projects tragedy and ridicules any shred of hope. It's like walking in a canyon of stone and nothing else and when coming upon a flower on the way, it has to be crushed in the most painful way.
If you want to read a real tragedy and find your heart cry out for each of the characters in despair, then this is the book for you. Me, I only regret reading it as I was not prepared for it all to end in misery - for everyone. Whether they believe themselves to be miserable may be questioned, yes, but in my eyes they are all to be pitied and I feel sorrow in my heart.
June 23, 2013
A few weeks ago on my blog I wrote a post about the first romance I ever read. I vowed to find a copy and reread.
The lovely lady that runs my local Indie bookstore found me a copy, with the same cover as I remembered! Opening the yellowed pages instantly took me back to that first time I read this historical romance back in the early seventies.
We start the book with Nakoa having his vision quest, where he sees a white woman and accepts her as his Nitosan, a vision from Napi that will protect and guide him. Years pass. A brutal attack on her wagon train finds the lovely Maria Frame as the only survivor. Running for her life she is taken captive by the Blackfoot warrior, Nakoa. From the initial moment of her capture, Maria fights not only her growing feelings for her captor, but the scorn from the Blackfoot tribe. The two lovers soon find themselves challenging not only their people, but the Blackfoot and White customs as well. This is a powerful, bittersweet, violent, depressing, uplifting romance.
I will admit that I had slightly different thoughts about the protagonist Maria this second time around. She worked on my nerves in places with her stubborn, ditzy, immature ways. Of course, this change in thinking is based on gathering over forty some years of life experience. Reading a book at thirteen and then reading it again at fifty-two is likely to bring about some changes in how you relate to the characters involved. Maria reminded me a good deal of Bella Swan, who set my teeth on edge throughout her own series, because of her immaturity. Yes, I know, these are young women both in their late teens, and so this type of behavior is to be expected.
There was a very funny tidbit I read on the internet written by Andy Rooney, where he praised women over forty. One particularly hilarious line that I have passed along to my dear hubby went something like this –
“A woman over the age of forty will never wake you up in the middle of the night to ask what you`re thinking. She doesn`t care what you think.”
Bazinga! I`m at that stage in my life, and admittedly I find it grueling to read young women throwing themselves around, whining and plotting and whimpering when the man they love doesn`t devote himself to them twenty-four seven and three sixty five. But, this is my problem to deal with. The author did a wonderful job of bringing the angst of a young woman`s first love to life. The romance moved me as it did all those years ago. The secondary characters made me laugh and weep. I really enjoyed taking this walk through such a moving physical and spiritual love. Yes, the writing style is dated. That didn`t detract from the experience one bit for me.
As a historical romance Native American romance, I happily give Nakoa`s Woman four stars. And I plan to gently retire this book to my shelves of never to be traded novels.
Oh, you`d like to see those shelves? Okay, next week I`ll share my keeper books with y`all on my blog. Maybe we have a few shared tastes! At the very least you`ll get to know why certain books never leave my hands.
The lovely lady that runs my local Indie bookstore found me a copy, with the same cover as I remembered! Opening the yellowed pages instantly took me back to that first time I read this historical romance back in the early seventies.
We start the book with Nakoa having his vision quest, where he sees a white woman and accepts her as his Nitosan, a vision from Napi that will protect and guide him. Years pass. A brutal attack on her wagon train finds the lovely Maria Frame as the only survivor. Running for her life she is taken captive by the Blackfoot warrior, Nakoa. From the initial moment of her capture, Maria fights not only her growing feelings for her captor, but the scorn from the Blackfoot tribe. The two lovers soon find themselves challenging not only their people, but the Blackfoot and White customs as well. This is a powerful, bittersweet, violent, depressing, uplifting romance.
I will admit that I had slightly different thoughts about the protagonist Maria this second time around. She worked on my nerves in places with her stubborn, ditzy, immature ways. Of course, this change in thinking is based on gathering over forty some years of life experience. Reading a book at thirteen and then reading it again at fifty-two is likely to bring about some changes in how you relate to the characters involved. Maria reminded me a good deal of Bella Swan, who set my teeth on edge throughout her own series, because of her immaturity. Yes, I know, these are young women both in their late teens, and so this type of behavior is to be expected.
There was a very funny tidbit I read on the internet written by Andy Rooney, where he praised women over forty. One particularly hilarious line that I have passed along to my dear hubby went something like this –
“A woman over the age of forty will never wake you up in the middle of the night to ask what you`re thinking. She doesn`t care what you think.”
Bazinga! I`m at that stage in my life, and admittedly I find it grueling to read young women throwing themselves around, whining and plotting and whimpering when the man they love doesn`t devote himself to them twenty-four seven and three sixty five. But, this is my problem to deal with. The author did a wonderful job of bringing the angst of a young woman`s first love to life. The romance moved me as it did all those years ago. The secondary characters made me laugh and weep. I really enjoyed taking this walk through such a moving physical and spiritual love. Yes, the writing style is dated. That didn`t detract from the experience one bit for me.
As a historical romance Native American romance, I happily give Nakoa`s Woman four stars. And I plan to gently retire this book to my shelves of never to be traded novels.
Oh, you`d like to see those shelves? Okay, next week I`ll share my keeper books with y`all on my blog. Maybe we have a few shared tastes! At the very least you`ll get to know why certain books never leave my hands.
August 26, 2020
I read this when I was in High School. I read it twice. It was so good and so sad. I don't want to read it again because I am pretty sure my standards have changed. I will always cherish the memory and we will leave it at that.
avoid
July 7, 2022Self note avoid.
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No HEA. H dies.
H had multiple wives with h.
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No HEA. H dies.
H had multiple wives with h.
January 18, 2013
The plot was beautiful, but I really wish the book was written differently.
I didn't mind the ending very much, but it was really the character of Maria, I didn't care much for her, at some point in the book I wished she would just die!!??
And I didn't think much of the conversations as well, especially those with Nakoa and Maria, I didn't have a problem with the other characters.
I would have loved to see more of Nakoa, he was a really interesting character, and I loved the insight into Native Indian life, and the strong secondary characters.
I wish I could read another one with a good plot and better writing , but not one of those romances with "Savage" in their title!!
I didn't mind the ending very much, but it was really the character of Maria, I didn't care much for her, at some point in the book I wished she would just die!!??
And I didn't think much of the conversations as well, especially those with Nakoa and Maria, I didn't have a problem with the other characters.
I would have loved to see more of Nakoa, he was a really interesting character, and I loved the insight into Native Indian life, and the strong secondary characters.
I wish I could read another one with a good plot and better writing , but not one of those romances with "Savage" in their title!!
July 11, 2018
Most boring book EVER written. At least the Dick and Jane books in first grade did something. This was more painful than a root canal.
August 13, 2014
I tried with this book. Many times. I tried. I finished it only to see if I could ever, ever like the heroine, Maria.
I couldn't. She experienced great trials, I understood. She had to handle severe cultural displacement, sure. She fell in love with the handsome Blackfoot man whom she regarded as her captor...way too easily considering every other thing happening in her life.
Maria was a selfish, conflicted woman who seemed only to see the error of her ways when people had been hurt by her actions. But she did not seem to truly learn any of the lessons so many took the time to teach her.
This might be considered a romance...but I consider it to be a tragedy. And I don't even want to talk about the ending.
I admired the secondary characters far more than the heroine. Anatsa was a darling. Natosin was wise and very much a man of his time. The spiritualism of the Blackfoot was heeded and honored and I appreciate that.
The hero, Nakoa, was a good man, too. I felt dreadful for him to have fallen for Maria, He deserved so much more. Really.
I give the book two stars because I appreciate the work that went into it as well as the secondary characters.
I couldn't. She experienced great trials, I understood. She had to handle severe cultural displacement, sure. She fell in love with the handsome Blackfoot man whom she regarded as her captor...way too easily considering every other thing happening in her life.
Maria was a selfish, conflicted woman who seemed only to see the error of her ways when people had been hurt by her actions. But she did not seem to truly learn any of the lessons so many took the time to teach her.
This might be considered a romance...but I consider it to be a tragedy. And I don't even want to talk about the ending.
I admired the secondary characters far more than the heroine. Anatsa was a darling. Natosin was wise and very much a man of his time. The spiritualism of the Blackfoot was heeded and honored and I appreciate that.
The hero, Nakoa, was a good man, too. I felt dreadful for him to have fallen for Maria, He deserved so much more. Really.
I give the book two stars because I appreciate the work that went into it as well as the secondary characters.
May 19, 2009
I read this book when I was in high school. My best friend had read it and told me how good it was. It was pure trash and very descriptive. I couldn't put it down. I remember secretly reading it in Algebra. It isn't something I would enjoy reading now, but back then, I thought it was great!
June 2, 2012
After reading Brie Lives her Fantasy by Red Phoenix last night, it reminded me of this book. In Ms. Phoenix's story Brie's fantasy is to be captured by an Indian Warrior. Very hot, indeed!
I read Nakoa's Woman maybe twenty years ago and it was probably the first romance book I ever read.It's about a white woman who is captured by and eventually falls in love with an Indian Warrior. It revolves around the difficulty between the love of a Native American and a New American. It's available in e-book format now. Just might have to read this one again !
August 26, 2014
I was confused by this book. I could see where the hero was coming from, wanting the woman, wanting to be with her and yet somewhat controlling... but the heroine..she...confused me. she was a big tease and didn't really know, in my opinion if she wanted to be with Nakoa or not. I ordered this off of Amazon and I kind of wish I hadn't. It really had to skim through pages just to get through it...Anyone else who reads this...good luck...
December 24, 2020
If you read this when you're about, say, 13, you will fall head-over-heels in swooning love with Nakoa, and you will never, ever forget this book and how it made you feel. I read this book when I was about 13, I have clearly never forgotten it, and I am still in love with Nakoa to this day.
June 28, 2014
This was the first romance novel I ever read. I was 16 at the time. It has stuck with me all these many years as I am in my 50s now. I think I will have to read it again!
October 21, 2018
Not sure quite how I feel about this book. so this will be one of the more challenging of the reviews I've done, but I'll give it a shot.
The beginning hooked me in - I loved the portrayal of the life of pioneers, traveling the Oregon Trail and the insurmountable obstacles they faced; the way of Native American life and their spirituality. Maria was okay in the beginning, but I grew increasingly frustrated with her throughout the book, right to the end. Yes, she was a young woman (15-16?), really a child by today's standards, girl's were forced to mature at a much faster pace due to survival. I could completely understand the trauma endured by the loss of her family, being kidnapped, but the author really didn't draw my empathy for her. Something was lacking in the portrayal of Marian's emotions and actions. Immature, selfish, impossibly stubborn and stuck in her own hurt, not caring how her actions affected other's, unless called out on them.
Nakoa, while not exactly the attentive type (at first), was ever so patient and stoic with her. In his own way, tried to validate her, but mostly to help her mature mentally and spiritually. Maria wasn't having any of it. A definite tale of you don't know what you've got until it's gone. I'm still not sure how to interpret the ending, although, I think the author left it up to the reader, it seems obvious. I had hoped for a better, more definite ending to all the chaos in this story.
The beginning hooked me in - I loved the portrayal of the life of pioneers, traveling the Oregon Trail and the insurmountable obstacles they faced; the way of Native American life and their spirituality. Maria was okay in the beginning, but I grew increasingly frustrated with her throughout the book, right to the end. Yes, she was a young woman (15-16?), really a child by today's standards, girl's were forced to mature at a much faster pace due to survival. I could completely understand the trauma endured by the loss of her family, being kidnapped, but the author really didn't draw my empathy for her. Something was lacking in the portrayal of Marian's emotions and actions. Immature, selfish, impossibly stubborn and stuck in her own hurt, not caring how her actions affected other's, unless called out on them.
Nakoa, while not exactly the attentive type (at first), was ever so patient and stoic with her. In his own way, tried to validate her, but mostly to help her mature mentally and spiritually. Maria wasn't having any of it. A definite tale of you don't know what you've got until it's gone. I'm still not sure how to interpret the ending, although, I think the author left it up to the reader, it seems obvious. I had hoped for a better, more definite ending to all the chaos in this story.
September 26, 2023
Unfortunately, this was garbage. It was one of those - girl falls in love incredibly fast—days after her loved ones are slaughtered in front of her by the natives-
She did not seem like a woman of the times but a bratty high school girl. The few side characters were really annoying and were given too many pages. I did chuckle at the old whore-lady a little but she grew unbearable as she was kinda supposed to.
I didn’t buy this love at all. It was not hot or sultry, or beautiful. It was just there and unbelievable. There was no culture really to fall in love with. The girl didn’t immerse herself in their ways enough for us to truly enjoy the Blackfoot people.
I like both when the woman are captured and owned like slaves and/or when they are adopted into the people IF DONE RIGHT. This just felt like a school drama.
I didn’t like anything about this story. I read over half of it and couldn’t go any farther—I only the physical book itself which was large— I was happy to see didn’t look like all my other native romance covers.
She did not seem like a woman of the times but a bratty high school girl. The few side characters were really annoying and were given too many pages. I did chuckle at the old whore-lady a little but she grew unbearable as she was kinda supposed to.
I didn’t buy this love at all. It was not hot or sultry, or beautiful. It was just there and unbelievable. There was no culture really to fall in love with. The girl didn’t immerse herself in their ways enough for us to truly enjoy the Blackfoot people.
I like both when the woman are captured and owned like slaves and/or when they are adopted into the people IF DONE RIGHT. This just felt like a school drama.
I didn’t like anything about this story. I read over half of it and couldn’t go any farther—I only the physical book itself which was large— I was happy to see didn’t look like all my other native romance covers.
June 22, 2017
Interesting reaching about Indian customs and their spirituality, and how the characters struggle for their love against opposing traditions and beliefs.
October 19, 2017
Stoopid!!
July 22, 2021
Love this beautifully written book.felt all the emotions.
November 26, 2025
If what you are looking for is epic amazing love story you will be very dissapointed. This book is anything but romantic. Yeah the FMC is annoying but Nakoa the MMC is a jerk. I don’t buy it at all that they loved each other… this book is not romantic, its just… tragic and depressing. But maybe that’s how it was meant to be. Still… no, not for me. I can’t write a review since I don’t remember much about it anymore, I read it many years ago. Maybe this is for you who are not looking for a romance but something realistic, I guess. If what you are looking for is something romantic, look elsewhere…there are way better native american man/white woman books out there that actually are very romantic.
July 8, 2014
A romance novel that I picked up more than 6 years ago, at a very young age, and abandoned because at the time I couldn't understand the writing style very well. However, there were many things that I did understand, and those things stayed with me to this day.
Although I have now graduated high school, I haven't been able to forget this book. I returned to it's pages to see if I could read it better, understand more, now that I was older. It didn't disappoint.
What an adventure. This story that stayed with me for more than 6 years definitely does not disappoint. The story is gripping and the characters are vivid. I finished this book hours ago and my heart still hurts. There were times where I had to put the book down and take a break, because the emotions it pulled from me were so intense.
Read this book. If you love romance, and captor/captee relationships, with a lot of interesting history and culture, please read this book.
Although I have now graduated high school, I haven't been able to forget this book. I returned to it's pages to see if I could read it better, understand more, now that I was older. It didn't disappoint.
What an adventure. This story that stayed with me for more than 6 years definitely does not disappoint. The story is gripping and the characters are vivid. I finished this book hours ago and my heart still hurts. There were times where I had to put the book down and take a break, because the emotions it pulled from me were so intense.
Read this book. If you love romance, and captor/captee relationships, with a lot of interesting history and culture, please read this book.
September 16, 2012
Bought the digital version at amazon. I used to own the paper but no longer.
I read this book several years ago - maybe 20-30 years ago and was then titled "Nakoah's Woman", and had remembered it being a favorite book of mine so decided to read it again. This is still a favorite of mine. I really loved this book. Maria is traveling with her father and sister on a wagon train and the train is attacked by snake indians and everyone is killed except Maria who gets away on a horse. She is found by Blackfoot Indians and particularly saved by Nakoah - son of the Blackfoot Chief. This is a very spiritual book about two people being bound together for eternity but also remaining onesself and finding onesself. ***** + 5+ stars!
I read this book several years ago - maybe 20-30 years ago and was then titled "Nakoah's Woman", and had remembered it being a favorite book of mine so decided to read it again. This is still a favorite of mine. I really loved this book. Maria is traveling with her father and sister on a wagon train and the train is attacked by snake indians and everyone is killed except Maria who gets away on a horse. She is found by Blackfoot Indians and particularly saved by Nakoah - son of the Blackfoot Chief. This is a very spiritual book about two people being bound together for eternity but also remaining onesself and finding onesself. ***** + 5+ stars!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 31, 2011
I read this book eons ago and loved it ...not sure what I would think of it now, but it's one I've always remembered
update after re-reading Nakoa's Woman .. still a good story of Indian life and a white woman trying to live their way, but I have to go with 3 stars and not 4 considering some of the other books I've read and given 4 stars to. Still a good read though. And has anyone really ever figured out the ending ?????
update after re-reading Nakoa's Woman .. still a good story of Indian life and a white woman trying to live their way, but I have to go with 3 stars and not 4 considering some of the other books I've read and given 4 stars to. Still a good read though. And has anyone really ever figured out the ending ?????
January 15, 2009
Originally published as NAKOA'S WOMAN.
January 18, 2010
Someone who has read this book - help me please!!!!!!!!
What was that ending all about? Seriously - what?????
What was that ending all about? Seriously - what?????
January 27, 2011
A Blackfoot warrior and a white woman fall in love.
May 6, 2011
I absolutely LOVE this story! A true love story. A must read.
April 21, 2013
I read this book MANY years ago and remember loving it, even though it was a bit sad, but now can't remember much of the story and want to re-read it.
May 18, 2013
A heart wrenching love story written by my fairy Godmother Gayle
July 28, 2019
one of my favorites of that genre
Read
August 26, 2017Great but heart breaking in the end.
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