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Don't have a Kindle? Montlake Romance 25 March Language: Be the first to review this item Would you like to tell us about a lower price? Customer reviews There are no customer reviews yet. Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a product review. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. Joanna James and her husband, Windhawk, chief of a Blood Blackfoot Indian tribe, have lived happily over the last two years, and Joanna discovers that she is going to have a baby. However, their happiness is threatened by malevolent forces, both new and old, who sow the seeds of mistrust and hatred and force the couple to face great challenges to their marriage and love for each other.

They failed, in part because Joanna and Tag escaped their greedy, and in the case of Howard, lecherous, clutches. Howard has killed Margaret, believing that if he did so, he would inherit Joanna and Tag's money. What he didn't count on, however, is a codicil in Russell James' will stating that the bulk of the money is to be held in trust for Tag until he turns Howard wants the money and Joanna, whom he lusts after, so he concocts a plan to have Joanna and Tag kidnapped and brought back to Philadelphia to try to get them back under his thumb.

Helping Howard in this endeavor is Claudia Maxwell, a woman who has hated Joanna ever since they were on the same wagon train in "Savage Autumn". Claudia is insanely jealous of Joanna-who has done nothing really to earn her hatred-and helps Howard with his scheme.

Before that, however, Claudia tricks Howard into marrying her. Howard and Claudia send a bogus letter to Joanna claiming to be from a friend of hers who needs her help. Joanna goes to meet her friend, never suspecting that she is walking into a trap. Joanna is kidnapped by two trappers who Howard hired to do his dirty work; they were supposed to kidnap Tag as well, but he is away on a trip. The kidnappers beat and threaten to rape Joanna, but Windhawk eventually tracks them down and rescues her. During this rescue, the following things happen: Windhawk kills one kidnapper; the other flees for his life.

Howard suffers a stroke, the significance of this will be revealed more in the next book in the series "Savage Spring. This is not true, but Windhawk believes it is. Windhawk is very angry with Joanna for leaving him again, and, like in "Savage Autumn", he treats her with great emotional cruelty.

Red Bird lusts after Windhawk. All is not well, though. Even though Joanna loves Windhawk, she believes that Tag is dead and she also yearns to be back in white society, in part to get revenge on Margaret and Howard. Her opportunity to do so comes when Windhawk leaves his village after finding out that Tag is being held prisoner by Running Elk. When Windhawk leaves to rescue Tag-he doesn't tell Joanna that he's going to rescue Tag-Joanna is found by a trapper, Crazy Farley, whom she and Tag befriended with their wagon train.

He believes that Joanna is being held against her will-she's not-and they leave the Blackfoot village. When Windhawk arrives back home with Tag and Amanda, he finds that Joanna has left after proclaiming that she loved him, even though she said many times that she wanted to return to the white world.

Windhawk had vowed that he'd never let her go. Windhawk then tracks down Joanna and Crazy Farley, and understandably, he is very hurt and angry with her. As Windhawk brings Joanna back to his village, he is very cruel to her, especially mentally, and he hits her one time. Then, another tragedy strikes. They are travelling in winter, in a raging snowstorm, and Joanna suffers from both exposure to snow and cold, and later, snow blindness. When his medicine woman can't heal Joanna's snow blindness, Windhawk decides to let her go back to the white world, not because he hates her or doesn't want her around, but because of the incredible guilt he feels as he believes that his actions caused her to be blind.

He also deeply regrets hitting her and being emotionally cruel to her, although he doesn't verbalize any of this to Joanna. Joanna, on the other hand, wants to stay with Windhawk, as she now realizes how much she loves him, but she also doesn't verbalize this, and Windhawk takes her to a forr and lets her go. Eventually, Joanna regains her sight, and both she and Windhawk realize that their lives don't have as much meaning without the one they love in it and they come back together and have their happily ever after.

The love Joanna and Windhawk feel for each other is so sweet, pure and most importantly, genuine. Yes, as mentioned in other reviews, a lot of the pain both suffered could have been avoided had they actually talked to each other. When this book was published-October was the original publishing month-people in romance novels didn't talk to each other.

They simply acted out and hid their feelings, and eventually apologized and regretted the pain they caused their loved ones. The only negative about this book for me is that Windhawk hits Joanna once when he finds her. While I totally understand his anger and hurt over Joanna's betrayal, that doesn't excuse what he did. That is the only black mark on an otherwise wonderful book. O'Banyon's loves scenes focus more on the feelings of the act rather than the descriptive aspects of the subject.

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More warm than hot. In addition to the raid on the wagon train the James kids are on and Windhawk's hitting Joanna, there is another scene where Windhawk has to kill three Piegan Indians to rescue Tag and Amanda. None of the violence, however, is graphically described. There are three more books in the "Savage Seasons of Blackfoot" series, one for each of the four seasons.

If the others are as good as this, it should be a wonderful series. This is a great story. There are few authors that can write Indian love stories and this author is one of them. Every once in awhile, I want to read one of these books and count on a good author to find that genre.

This storyline is about a young Joanna at seventeen and her brother, Taggart, who have lost their mother while their father is away on a ship. An aunt and uncle come to their home and more or less take over. When they find a letter saying the father is dead, the unscrupulous uncle contacts their attorney and takes over guardianship.

He then sets about making plans to get rid of Tag so he can possess the young girl and steal the wealth of the family. The story is the escape to the west, a wagon-train trip, a savage Indian raid and the life of these young people when they are taken to different Indian encampments - one kind and one mean.

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I loved the way this story took the twists and turns along the trail. You will love this book. One person found this helpful. I read this book because I loved the Author's book, Comanche Moon. This book almost seemed like it was a different author. I liked the premise of the book. But not the way it was written. I thought I was going to pull my hair out trying to just get to the end. Most romances have the whiny back and forth "I love him but he doesn't love me so I'm not going to say anything" sequence. But this book took that character "pride" to a whole new level.

And the fact that the main male character was so angry that he had to hit her and toss her about and neglect her to the point of blindness really pissed me off. How can you continue to respect a character like that? And listening to the main female character say it's all okay and she just loves him so much while he's doing it? From the beginning, she told him she couldn't stay with him, then when she gets away it's somehow okay for him to abuse her?

After that I lost all respect for either of the main characters. I won't be buying the sequels or probably any other books from this author. This was a great book. Many parts of it brought tears to my eyes. I liked that it had a complete ending not leaving you hanging with questions at the end. I highly recommend this series of books. I didn't know it was a series at first. Book 2 was the first I read and I loved it so much that I had to read book 1. I was very intrigued and couldn't put this book down. It was very entertaining. I loved the story taking place primarily in the Blackfoot village.

It isn't often that I find a favorite new author with a series that has so many books to look forward to. I may be late to the Hap and Leonard party, but now I get to binge the rest of the novels. This one is a good introduction to the pair, even though there is nothing really new or groundbreaking to the story, it serves its purpose and makes me want to read more. I could pretty much guess where this was going, but that didn't ruin the story for me or make me less interested in the dynamic between the two main characters.

Everyone else in the novel is pretty despicable, and I have a feeling that Hap is going to continue to be led by his heart while Leonard is the voice of reason. I love how Leonard knows the scheme in this novel is too good to be true, but he's such a good friend to Hap that he can't let him go on his own. I'm not going to rehash the plot, but I will say there's a "get rich quick" scheme that goes exactly the way you think it would.

The dialogue is hilarious, the characters are colorful, and Hap and Leonard are the hapless duo we all need right now. I just wrote that and suddenly realized how Lansdale most likely named one of his most popular characters. Pick this one up. I highly recommend it. View all 3 comments.

Se non fossi frocio forse l'amerei anch'io. Lansdale's novels and short stories are very visceral reads. When Lansdale writes action, you can smell the sweat and taste the dirt. He knows how to keep the reader on the edge of their seats. Add onto that, a very sharp wit and you rarely come away from one of the author's stales disappointed. Savage Season is the first of a series of suspense novels featuring Happ Collins and Leonard Pine; the first one I have read, but I am eager to devour the rest of the series.

Happ and Leonard seems Joe R.

Happ and Leonard seems like an odd couple, a white straight man and a black gay biker, but their rapport and politically incorrect slings at each other sound as natural as it comes in real life. Stir in the rural surroundings of East Texas, Happ's unlucky love life, burn-out sixties radicals, and a fortune hunt for illegal loot. It has been a long time since I read a mystery novel that kept me so involved.

Funny like Hiaasen, gritty like Spillane and uniquely Lansdale, you will wonder why the author is not a household name. Oct 11, Bark rated it really liked it Shelves: All they have to do is find the money that is supposedly buried somewhere in an icy river where Hap grew up. But nothing comes easy for these two and it isn't long before they're not only dealing with vicious weather but also greedy and psychotic humans. This is a short little book that packs a punch. It is unflinchingly and sometimes painfully graphic but the characters of Hap and Leonard, who both have a really nasty sense of humor, provide much needed comic relief.

I don't want to give too much away here but this book isn't going to become one of my favorites, even though I enjoyed most of it, because of a certain horrendous plot twist towards the end of the story that tore out my heart. Apr 29, Tfitoby rated it liked it Shelves: A pretty decent crime caper noir, my first Lansdale, feeling like a cross between the wise cracking Elmore Leonard and the more brutal Don Winslow with a pair of "heroes" in Hap and Leonard that are a joy to read.

It was Hap and Leonard that saved this one for me, the two of them together are funny, conflicted and real, a great channel for Lansdale's obvious talent with dialogue; providing the kind of banter and realism that Leonard would be proud of.

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That aside, for a slim novel it felt like it w A pretty decent crime caper noir, my first Lansdale, feeling like a cross between the wise cracking Elmore Leonard and the more brutal Don Winslow with a pair of "heroes" in Hap and Leonard that are a joy to read. That aside, for a slim novel it felt like it was dragging for the middle 60 or so pages which dragged the overall enjoyment down and caused me to distance myself from the brutal ending through a kind of boredom brought on by the behaviour of the ridiculous 60's throwback renegades.

Lansdale manages to pack lethal doses of dark humor, brutal violence, social commentary, and the intoxicating East Texas setting into this relatively short book.

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Without slowing the pace an iota with overlong descriptions of the setting, Lansdale makes you feel like you were there, dealing with the brutal heat and icy cold, the humidity and the maze-like swamps along with Hap and Leonard. Anyways, Trudy brings Hap in on the plan she has with her current dude to find the boat and dredge up the sunken cash.

Even his metaphors go beyond the usual necessary wittiness for the genre and are just too over-the-top to not laugh at. Let me just say that in a lot of cases he matches and even bests the dead king of crime novels, Raymond Chandler when it comes to hilarious observations. That said, even with all the humor and funny situations in this book when shit turns serious it feels it. Everything feels gelled and natural, and absolutely never ham-handed or contrived. It just reeks of creativity and originality. These characters just cry out to be written and read about. Aug 20, Aaron rated it really liked it Recommended to Aaron by: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are two rural guys just scraping by, best friends who together make up a badass and hilarious odd couple.

Hap is a white heterosexual former idealist who went to prison for making a point out of dodging the draft, and Leonard is a black gay Vietnam veteran. When Hap's ex-wife, Trudy, comes to them with a sketchy proposition for making a lot of money fast, Hap's desire for Trudy combines with his and Leonard's need for living expenses, making the opportunity too good Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are two rural guys just scraping by, best friends who together make up a badass and hilarious odd couple.

When Hap's ex-wife, Trudy, comes to them with a sketchy proposition for making a lot of money fast, Hap's desire for Trudy combines with his and Leonard's need for living expenses, making the opportunity too good to pass up and drawing them into a dangerous scheme that proves to have too many variables. This is probably best described as a backwoods-noir-caper-thriller.

It had a lot to like, including two likable yet grumpy anti-heroes that crack wise non-stop, a flawed and dangerous supporting cast, a plot that was simple yet suspenseful and difficult to predict, an interesting backstory involving American idealism and how it changed people in different ways, and a satisfying dose of sudden violence. Lansdale's prose is quite good and has a little of that classic "private eye" feel as we see the world through Hap's cynical point of view. This is one more series I'm sold on. I caught the news that the television adaptation is coming of course it is and after reading the casting, I got stuck on picturing Hap and Leonard as James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams in the roles.

Hopefully they work on TV as well as they did in my imagination. Der geborene Vielschreiber Joe R. Cain, entwirft er das meist zutiefst ironische Szenario einer texanischen Welt, in der seine Protagonisten zwar gerne leben, das aber von Gewalt, Rassismus und immer dunkle Der geborene Vielschreiber Joe R. Dieses Finale hat es dann allerdings in sich.

Lansdale versteht es, seinem Text subkutan, jenseits der Klischees, jenseits des Sarkasmus, durchaus bedenkenswerte Reflexionen einzuflechten. Lansdale verhandelt diese Dinge oft wie nebenbei, aber dennoch mit dem entsprechenden Ernst. Er versteht es, an den richtigen Stellen die Ironie zur Seite zu schieben und das aufscheinen zu lassen, was sie bedeuten. Man kann anhand von Lansdales Romanen gut die Entwicklungen des modernen zum postmodernen, reflektiven Noirthriller verfolgen, kann ablesen, wie die Klassiker auf ihn wirken und wie er wiederum auf jene gewirkt hat, die das Genre weiter vorangetrieben haben in den vergangenen Dekaden.

Doch genug der Analyse, denn im Kern hat man es hier mit einem guten, eben nicht sonderlich originellen aber sehr unterhaltsamen Thriller zu tun, den man schnell weg lesen und dann auch schnell wieder vergessen kann. Mar 12, Diane Barnes rated it it was amazing. I'm giving it 5 stars for the pure enjoyment factor, and for not disappointing.

Great characters, snappy dialogue, fast-paced action, and a great ending. OK, this was just plum fun. I'm not up to speed on my Lansdale so I'm just now venturing into Hap and Leonard. I, of course, have heard plenty about them and with the TV show coming up, I decided this might be a great diversion from the horrible reading slump I've been in. Sometimes I make excellent choices. Oct 09, Ctgt rated it liked it. Decent start for the series but suffers from the "first book" syndrome. The author tries to balance the introduction of the characters with the actual plot of the story and one or the other is compromised.

In this case it's the plot of the story that is a familiar trope of crime fiction, let's go find the money that was hidden after a heist. I do like the characters of Hap and Leonard. Their relationship seems deep and we have only scratched the surface so they will carry me on Decent start for the series but suffers from the "first book" syndrome.

Their relationship seems deep and we have only scratched the surface so they will carry me on to the next book. But this does feel like one of those deals where you have to push through the setup book s to get to the meat of the series. This book i would not rate 4 stars for the actual story,plot. I rate it 4 stars because the characters was the rare kind of that take hold of you from page one. The back and forth quips between Hap and Leonard were great. Two guys i felt for from the first scene. Didn't have to imagine them at all. They feel so real.

It doesnt hurt either that Lansdale is talented writer prose wise,language of the book,his country wit as the blurb say was great read. I chuckled many times reading some of the lines This book i would not rate 4 stars for the actual story,plot. I chuckled many times reading some of the lines of Hap,Leonard. Cant wait to read more of Lansdale and Hap,Leonard series. May 13, Scott Sigler rated it it was amazing. I love Joe Landsdale's work.

I haven't read him extensively, but every time I do I'm taken away by the story, swirled around in it, dumped out at the end like I've been rode hard and put away wet. Hap and Leonard are my favorite Landsdale characters yet. Opera divertente e piuttosto amara, ma i dialoghi semplici e qualche passaggio morto di troppo non la fanno innalzare da un livello medio. It seems that the number-one cause of trouble in crime novels is the ex-wife, followed by the ex-lover and the flaky best friend.

It helps if the ex is a sex bomb and Our Hero hasn't quite gotten over her. The troublesome ex in this story is Trudy, Hap's ex-flower-child ex-wife, who, despite having broken Hap's heart years ago, needs only to twitch her well-arranged rump to get him back into bed and w It seems that the number-one cause of trouble in crime novels is the ex-wife, followed by the ex-lover and the flaky best friend.

She's now tangled up with some other '60s flotsam who are fishing for a million dollars in money stolen from a crooked bank; could Hap come out to play and maybe help them find the dough? Of course he can. He drags Leonard into the scheme, which of course goes completely off the rails and leads to murder and mayhem. Hap the narrator is good, easy-going company. His written voice goes perfectly with a drawl, but he's not your typical redneck.

He was a liberal college boy in the late s until he let himself get sent to prison for draft evasion, a protest against The Man also pitched to warm Trudy's heart. Now he's a near-burnout scratching by working in the rose fields. This background lets his observations get a tad highfalutin' at times without breaking character.

Some reviewers wonder how Hap ended up best friends with Leonard, a black gay Republican back when those could still exist who went to Vietnam. I can see it, though -- Leonard's the flintier, harder-headed of the two, the realist to Hap's dreamer, the cynic who can try to keep Hap's good nature from getting the best of him. The two of them are well-matched, though Leonard usually gets the best lines.

Trudy and Howard, her most recent former lover, are the most completely drawn secondary characters; each has a distinct voice and manner. Trudy, while not quite Jessica Rabbit, does have some leporine qualities, and beyond her lush sensuality it's often hard to see why Hap's such a sucker for her. The rest of the would-be revolutionaries, while distinct, never quite rise beyond being types. Soldier and Angel, who appear late in the story and cause much of that mayhem mentioned earlier, rarely rise above being standard-issue sociopaths, though they remain true to their particular personality quirks.

The settings are well-described, atmospheric, and show the author's familiarity with the area along Texas' swampy eastern fringe. This extends to his portrayal of the downmarket side of local society, which he describes with sympathy but no romanticism. My main beef with the story is that it starts as something of a caper, then in Act 3 becomes a hard-boiled thriller with considerable violence including torture and a not-insignificant body count, much of it tallied up by Our Heroes. I was able to stay in the saddle when this horse began to buck, but others might suffer some whiplash from the fairly sudden change in tone.

I came to the latter after watching the former. The two track closely through the first half of the book, then steadily diverge as they approach their respective climaxes. The TV series gives a lot more play to Soldier and Angel, which both fleshes out their characters and brings a more thrillerish vibe to the entire story.

If you read the book, you can watch the show without being disappointed by the changes. Savage Season is a solid introduction to a personable pair of common-Joe protagonists who can navigate the gray area between straight and crooked. The series now includes nine novels and several short stories and novellas, as well as that TV show Season 2 now in production , which shows that plenty of people have taken a shine to these ol' boys and their hangdog world.

If any of this sounds good to you, pop open a Pearl and peruse this shortish pages novel -- you might find something you'll like. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Champion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over forty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in more than two dozen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-e Champion Mojo Storyteller Joe R.

His work has been collected in more than two dozen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. Austin State University, and is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan: He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog, and two cats. Other books in the series.

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