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Jasper Renshaw, Viscount Vale, has recently had one fiancee defect on him, and his second has just left him at the altar. Melisande Fleming sees her chance—she's plain and has never attracted his attention, but he's not really in a position to be picky now. So begins the marriage of convenience plot coupled with the loved him from afar plot!

Alas, Jasper is busy figuring out who betrayed his company when they were in the Colonies, leading to their being captured and tortured by Indians.

...yes. Tortured. By. Indians.

Suddenly, my DW has become "rant about race in romances" all day all the time!

Leaving that aside for a little, there are the standard Hoyt things in here that I like a lot. The heroine is more sexually aggressive than the norm in romances and neither the hero or the heroine are described as attractive, although I could have done without the descriptions of the heroine's skin being so white you can see her blue veins through it.

However, the revenge plot is a little too similar to The Serpent Prince for me, with more ARGH moments (Indians! ARGH!) and fewer bits I like.

And did I mention the tortured by Indians thing? I like Hoyt, but I tried reading the first book in this quartet and could not get through it because I was still so mad about the presentation of Native people in romances. I'll probably be skipping the rest of it until she comes out with a new series that hopefully does not have eye-rolling race issues.

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Sun, Aug. 9th, 2009 04:15 am (UTC)
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You know, it occurs to me that Cheryl Reavis has some contemporary category books set on a Navajo reservation. Some characters are Navajo, some white, and the romances vary. (Not all her categories are in this series.)

I read them several years ago, before I knew what to think about the racial issues involved. That said, I have never been able to read most historical romances with Indians for the reasons you note, so it is possible that these are not too horrible. The series starts with One of Our Own from 1994.

This isn't so much a recommendation as a referral. I'm sorry my memory isn't clearer. My books are all packed so I can't grab one to see.

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