Review: Too full of hyperbole and historical inaccuracies!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2012
The writing in Enchanted Heart was excessively verbose, to say the least. Also, the author seemed to have a love affair with alliteration. Marty's reaction to Caid's kiss was a "swirl into the dizzying depths of delight" and her nipples were described as "pink petals of pleasure." I just picked two examples at random but the entire book is composed of excesses like these. Frankly, such language becomes boring after a while so I ended up skimming over lots of the book. There was very little dialogue in relation to the large amounts of narrative which is another style that I don't like and leads to me skimming rather than reading.An important point of an historical book, even a romance, is using facts accurately and there were multitudes of errors throughout the book. Some examples are: the book spoke of the Comanches in Texas using teepees but teepees were found on the Great Plains and used by the Dakotas, Lakotas, Cheyennes, and other Native Americans of that area. Propriety was very rigidly enforced, so there was no way that Caid's and Marty's behavior at the campfire or them taking off alone for hours without a chaperone would have been tolerated. Buck would NEVER have cursed in front of Marty or Greta let alone used language like that when addressing them. Greta could not have been safely moved after receiving a compound fracture of the leg and I don't see how she could have survived at all, even with a doctor's help given the state of medical knowledge at the time. It is extremely unlikely that Marty could have lived through her miscarriage even if she lived long enough to have a transfusion for which Buck would not have had the necessary equipment or any knowledge of the ABO blood typing (which was discovered by Karl Landsteiner in the early 20th century). Mulling over these and other inaccuracies spoiled the flow of the story for me.Perhaps most importantly when reading a romance is to believe in the love between the characters. For both Marty & Caid and Greta & Buck, their overwhelming, instant, heaven-sent, all-encompassing love was simply not believable. I really didn't enjoy reading this story and I would not recommend it to anyone else.