Book Review: White Dove

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

White Dove     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Susan Edwards
Class/Genre:   Romance
Leisure, Jul 2001, $5.99, 374 pp.

In 1859 in the Nebraska Territory, Jeremy Jones tries to impress his family and his beloved White Dove by taking honey from a hive. However, he soon finds himself and an Indian lad in danger from a bear. White Dove saves his life. She beat Jeremy when they compete and taunts him by saying that he is not as good a warrior as she is.

Jeremy realizes that the only way he will become husband to his beloved White Dove is to become a Lakota warrior because she believes her mate will be a great warrior. To White Dove’s shock, he asks her father to teach him and her father assigns her to train Jeremy. Even more shocking, Jeremy takes to her teaching like a pro. However, will she ever accept him as that great warrior mate that Jeremy desperately wants to be?

Susan Edwards "WHITE" novels (see WHITE WOLF and WHITE WIND) have quickly become one of the more popular Native Americana romance series in the genre. Her latest tale, WHITE DOVE, may be the best of the group as the plot provides her audience with a gender bender heroine and the only man who accepts her as she is. The return of the lead characters from other books in this series now shine in their own tale. Secondary characters making a brief appearance from previous and that adds a feeling of homecoming especially since the story line is what fans expect from a Susan Edwards story: exciting, non-stop action and romance. Still this Annie Get Your Gun rendition works because Ms. Edwards describes people readers want to meet and know.

Harriet Klausner

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