Review: Full of adventure and incident
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2010
'Beneath The Shining Mountains' is set during the 1830s in North America, on thelands of the Apsaroke. It opens with the heroine, Moon Hawk, who is restless.She hopes Winter Man, a Good Man of the Apsaroke and member of the dashing Foxwarrior clan, will bring horses to her father in exchange for her hand inmarriage. She and her mother devise a way to snare Winter Man's interest, butMoon Hawk has another suitor and he is less than honourable orgood....'Beneath The Shining Mountains' takes the reader into the world of the Apsaroke. Iloved learning about their customs and rich culture, and seeing the land throughtheir eyes. It is an epic, heroic world, where wealth is measured in horses andwarriors win pride and honour by the dangerous sport of stealing horses from rival peoples.Winter Man and Moon Hawk are well matched, both proud and brave, and both sparand tease each other in their courtship. Theirs is a testing path to love and anexciting one, full of adventure and incident. The feelings of both young peopleare sympathetically revealed and realistically shown and I was enthralledthroughout.I look forward to reading more of Linda Acaster's work.