Savage Thunder

First of all - look at this cover! Doesnt that make you want to read it?!  Actually, one of the main reasons I never read romance before was because of the horrible covers, and it is one of the reasons now that I am so thankful for the invention of ereaders.  However, this book also now looks like this:

That's a bit more appealing isn't it? Though now the title doesn't fit the picture. Oh well, no one ever wins at these kind of things. On to the story itself!

Not one of her best, but it was good. Johanna Lindsey, while at times can take a bit long to get around to the actual happenings of a book, this one, while lacking a bit in the romance department- i felt like they were together for a long time without much happening in their relationship. I'm not a huge fan of drama drama sex drama drama drama drama and then an HEA.

 Hero (White Thunder aka Colt Thunder - honestly i couldn't help think that White Thunder sounded like some horrible skinhead name) is half white half Indian during the late 1800's in the wild west and has sworn off "white women" after receiving a near fatal whipping a few years prior because he was courting a "white girl" and never told anyone he was a "breed".  Okay, so enter missJocelyn Fleming, a red headed widowed duchess on the run from some maniac who wants her money, after her MUCH older husband dies shortly after their marriage. The Duke unfortunately was not able to ever consummate the marriage so Jocelyn is left a widowed virgin. She and her travelling companion Vanessa decide that Jocelyn absolutely must lose her virginity to keep her husbands name protected and so Jocelyn can remarry if she were to ever choose to do so. Enter Colt.   (you get where this is going right?)

So after the usual good guy vs bad guy drama, a few duals, kidnaps, murders, and an angry "breed" coming to terms with himself and the woman who loves him, you find yourself with a happy ending and another book in the series to read thereafter.  This is the second book of Lindsey's Wyoming trilogy.


Amazon Summary: The story pairs a quintessential Lindsey heroine and hero, but the sparks don't fly. Jocelyn Fleming, a young English widow traveling across the U.S. to escape a murderous detective, and Colt Thunder, a half-Cheyenne drifter with an implacable hatred of white women, never quite become convincing characters. The plot, obstacle-heavy and motivation-thin, fails the duo and never tests the mettle Lindsey clearly intends each principal to have. Neither narrative nor romance is sufficiently robust to sustain the long, long trek through the still-wild West.