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An Apache Princess
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1903 Edition.
- GenresClassics
344 pages, Paperback
First published February 12, 1903
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March 10, 2016
It was a good story. However, the writing was choppy and confusing in places; the characters were good, but the mechanics of the plot underdeveloped. It held my interest very well, and yet the details had a way of getting scrambled, so I had to backtrack numerous times to decipher what happened in what order. There was an interesting mystery, but I got the feeling that the author was much more used to writing about the ways of the frontier than of spinning out a properly paced mystery, which led to the confusion.
January 7, 2021
Strange book. Interesting story-line, if you can keep up with the numerous characters and the timeline. The wording is very unusual, almost at times like a dialect.
I'm a romanticist, so I stuck with it to see if it developed the way I thought it should, but must admit I was sorely tempted to lay my Kindle down or perhaps to even throw it across the room.
I'm a romanticist, so I stuck with it to see if it developed the way I thought it should, but must admit I was sorely tempted to lay my Kindle down or perhaps to even throw it across the room.
February 2, 2013
If you like historical fiction and stories about Native Americans, you'll love An Apache Princess. With reminiscent descriptions of the Arizona topography, this story of soldier's life at camp there is richly evocative and transports the reader, almost to the sand and horseback.
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November 4, 2017DNF at 38% (ebook)
For such a short book (just over 200 pages), I found this book to be incredibly long.
The book starts off with a young girl outside the fort who happens upon a native american girl. What will happen? Will the become friends? Will they get caught? This seems like it's going to be an good story! Well, who knows what happens to these two because then it switches to other characters and life at the fort. We're given some backstory on fort life, the landscape, army rotations (were they considered army then? There's a corporal so I assume so). The descriptions were excellent. I was instantly whisked away into Arizona fort living in the 1800s. For that I give it 5 stars.
So why the DNF?
Simply, the story jumped around too much. Yes, I was instantly transported to that time period, but the story was too jumbled. I had a hard time following the timeline and what was happening. I felt like I had experienced fort life by the 20% mark and wouldn't get too much more out of it by continuing the book.
For such a short book (just over 200 pages), I found this book to be incredibly long.
The book starts off with a young girl outside the fort who happens upon a native american girl. What will happen? Will the become friends? Will they get caught? This seems like it's going to be an good story! Well, who knows what happens to these two because then it switches to other characters and life at the fort. We're given some backstory on fort life, the landscape, army rotations (were they considered army then? There's a corporal so I assume so). The descriptions were excellent. I was instantly whisked away into Arizona fort living in the 1800s. For that I give it 5 stars.
So why the DNF?
Simply, the story jumped around too much. Yes, I was instantly transported to that time period, but the story was too jumbled. I had a hard time following the timeline and what was happening. I felt like I had experienced fort life by the 20% mark and wouldn't get too much more out of it by continuing the book.
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