Review: 2.5 stars,  A story which needs a little updating and a heroine who needs to be as interesting as her hero
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 27, 2012
Medicine Man's Affair is a novel that shows its age.  Written in the 1980's there are some politically incorrect parts to this story about a Native American football player and a Publicity Director of a Philadelphia football team.Bradley Youngson (Lee) is a star football player newly acquired for the Philadelphia team.  He is handsome and confident and he notices Jennifer Gardiner at their first meeting.Jennifer is all business with Lee and she tries very hard to keep it that way.  She does not respond to his overtures and she is a hard woman for both Lee and the reader to know and at first like.  She is condescending and so rude that I wondered at her "PR" skills. She keeps an emotional distance and she runs hot and cold with the hero.Lee's past is more interesting than Jennifer's.  She is a lawyer turned PR director and she had a basic cookie cutters WASPish life.  Then she married a jock and, well, it went downhill from there.  She is divorced and is suspicious of all athletes. Bradley received a football scholarship and instead of becoming a doctor went into the NFL.  His Native American roots are important to him (although he has no problem with his team mates calling him Chief, again this is an 80's romance).  He is falling for Jennifer fast but at the same time wrestling with his commitment to his heritage.This story had some very good moments; most of them with Lee trying to navigate his future in the NFL with his familial obligations.  His romance with Jennifer was not as engaging.