Review: Fascinating story in a strange culture
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2013
This is a very emotional story and I really enjoyed it, especially in the first half of the book. While the love story between Wolfkeeper and Cassie was beautiful, I also felt very annoyed by Wolfkeeper's complete lack of mercy toward Cassie as a mother. I found it difficult to accept that he had made the decision to give the baby to his brother and his wife as if he or other people in his tribe could control the supernatural and forced Cassie into an acceptance and later into denial of her own son. What was even worse, as the story progressed and he felt in love with the white woman, he understood her pain but it didn't make him change his mind about the baby.I know quite a lot about the history of red indians as I have been interested in this topic since I was a child. I know that very often they abducted children and brought them up as one of their own giving them so much love and the sense of belonging that these children didn't want to go back to their white families even when they were "liberated" by the army and taken back home. Still, I think it's different from the children's point of view as they were very young therefore they had forgotten their real family very quickly. However, I find it difficult to accept that an adult, a mother would ever forget about her own son for the sake of a new love in her life, especially if this is the man who actually killed her husband and taken away her beloved son.Unfortunately this book really needs an editor as it is full of grammatical errors, punctuation mistakes, unnecessary repetition of words or even sentences - especially in the second half of the book. Sometimes these mistakes made it difficult to follow the storyline. Occasionally I had to go back and read a paragraph again, because suddenly I got lost due to the mistakes and wasn't sure what was going on.Overall, I think it's an enjoyable read as the author takes you to a different culture and shows the way other people think and live. This book is definitely different from most of the other reads and will make you think about what is important in life.