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Texas Healer
Dr Dan Conway wanted payment for his work among the Comanche Indians; he wanted the forbidden - the great chief's sister, Morning Light. She knew that White men brought sorrow - but this white man's touch held the promise of paradise. Could her heart be joined to an enemy?
352 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 2010
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Ruth Ryan Langan
173 books112 followersRuth Ryan Langan (aka Ruth Langan) is an award-winning author of romance novels. She is a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award winner and has twice been nominated for Romantic Times Reviwers' Choice Awards, for Jade and Return of the Prodigal Son. She has spent much of her career writing historical romance novels for the Harlequin Historicals line of category romances. Many of her book are set in medieval times, while others are western romances. She has also written some contemporary romances, and often includes elements of suspense in her novels.
Langan began her writing career in secret. Her family discovered her writings when her children came home unexpectedly from school one day and found her writing. When Langan's husband was told of her hobby, he bought her an electric typewriter "because 'writers need tools'". Her first book was published by Silhouette Books in 1981 after an editor picked it out of their slush pile. After the first sale was completed, Langan got an agent.
Langan is a charter member of the Romance Writers of America. She has five children and lives with her husband in Michigan.
Has also written under the name of Ruth Langan and R.C. Ryan
Langan began her writing career in secret. Her family discovered her writings when her children came home unexpectedly from school one day and found her writing. When Langan's husband was told of her hobby, he bought her an electric typewriter "because 'writers need tools'". Her first book was published by Silhouette Books in 1981 after an editor picked it out of their slush pile. After the first sale was completed, Langan got an agent.
Langan is a charter member of the Romance Writers of America. She has five children and lives with her husband in Michigan.
Has also written under the name of Ruth Langan and R.C. Ryan
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January 21, 2021
Texas Healer is about as good as any Native American historical romance written by a white lady could expect to be—which means it’s good until its racism rolls up and shows its ass.
Harvard-educated Dan Conway is wandering through his native Texas and gets caught up with some white buffalo hunters (AKA pillagers of the local ecosystem for profit). Dan escapes with a little Comanche girl who'd been kidnapped by the hunters and used as their sexual slave (naturally). Because of his superior medical skills compared to the Comanche, Dan becomes a respected man among the girl's band. Dan eventually falls in love with Morning Light, a woman whose husband was literally murdered by white men on their wedding day.
And at the end (spoiler alert), Morning Light's entire band is killed by the U.S. Army while she's rescued by Dan, who takes her to the family ranch and marries her. Hooray...?
It’s wild to me how popular this genre used to be, and even wilder how many hoops authors have to jump through in order to create a (semi) believable Happily Ever After. Here, Ruth Langan literally had to subject the Comanche heroine’s entire tribe to genocide not once but twice. And then, of course, without a people to call her own, she happily assimilates into the white love interest’s Texas ranching lifestyle. Wild.
I mean, is Texas Healer written well? Sure. Did the author do some basic research? Seems like it. Do I, personally, enjoy western romances? Yup.
But boy is it a tough sell to get me to feel satisfied with a love story that ends with dozens of innocent lives slaughtered wholesale by colonizers, where the protagonist only survives because one of the colonizers has a personal stake in her continued existence. (She’s a handy place to keep his dick.) There’s a reason we don’t write these kinds of stories anymore. Texas Healer is a relic of a harmful period of romance fiction that, thankfully, seems to be mostly past, though never forgotten.
Look, I enjoyed this book. But I’m not going to sit here and say that just because I had a nice couple hours by the pool with Texas Healer it’s worth a damn thing. I try hard to acknowledge my problematic faves. Old school Harlequin Historicals are 100% one of them.
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Harvard-educated Dan Conway is wandering through his native Texas and gets caught up with some white buffalo hunters (AKA pillagers of the local ecosystem for profit). Dan escapes with a little Comanche girl who'd been kidnapped by the hunters and used as their sexual slave (naturally). Because of his superior medical skills compared to the Comanche, Dan becomes a respected man among the girl's band. Dan eventually falls in love with Morning Light, a woman whose husband was literally murdered by white men on their wedding day.
And at the end (spoiler alert), Morning Light's entire band is killed by the U.S. Army while she's rescued by Dan, who takes her to the family ranch and marries her. Hooray...?
It’s wild to me how popular this genre used to be, and even wilder how many hoops authors have to jump through in order to create a (semi) believable Happily Ever After. Here, Ruth Langan literally had to subject the Comanche heroine’s entire tribe to genocide not once but twice. And then, of course, without a people to call her own, she happily assimilates into the white love interest’s Texas ranching lifestyle. Wild.
I mean, is Texas Healer written well? Sure. Did the author do some basic research? Seems like it. Do I, personally, enjoy western romances? Yup.
But boy is it a tough sell to get me to feel satisfied with a love story that ends with dozens of innocent lives slaughtered wholesale by colonizers, where the protagonist only survives because one of the colonizers has a personal stake in her continued existence. (She’s a handy place to keep his dick.) There’s a reason we don’t write these kinds of stories anymore. Texas Healer is a relic of a harmful period of romance fiction that, thankfully, seems to be mostly past, though never forgotten.
Look, I enjoyed this book. But I’m not going to sit here and say that just because I had a nice couple hours by the pool with Texas Healer it’s worth a damn thing. I try hard to acknowledge my problematic faves. Old school Harlequin Historicals are 100% one of them.
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October 1, 2018
Série: Texas 02 - Curandeiro do Texas - Ruth Langan
Título original: Texas Healer
Título: Curandeiro do Texas
Autor: Ruth Langan
Série: Texas 02
Editora: New York Times Bestselling
Ano: 2016
Comprar: Só no site da Amazon Brasil, mas o texto é em inglês
Hist
Resenha:
Desde época do colégio, diga-se de passagem à milênios, que venho tentando adquirir este livro danado. Nunca fez sentido, pelo menos pra mim, os outros dois livros da série serem lançados aqui no Brasil e Texas Healer não, nem a versão inglês, sempre fiquei indignada com este fato.
Agora anos e anos depois a Amazon Brasil liberou esta nova versão em inglês para ser vendida, é óbvio que isto só aconteceu porque esta onda dos ebooks definitivamente pegou por aqui, caso contrário jamais aconteceria. Ninguém pode mensurar o tamanho da minha felicidade!!!
Antes de me aprofundar na história devo confessar que fiquei mega surpresa, achei que tudo seria mais simples entre Dan e Luz da Manhã, principalmente porque no fim do livro "Jessie" ficou evidente que os dois ficariam juntos, mas aqui não foi tão simples, pelo contrário, muito complicado e com muito sofrimento...
Quer ler a resenha completa e muito mais, visite o blog Momentos da Fogui:
http://foguiii.blogspot.com/2018/06/s...
Título original: Texas Healer
Título: Curandeiro do Texas
Autor: Ruth Langan
Série: Texas 02
Editora: New York Times Bestselling
Ano: 2016
Comprar: Só no site da Amazon Brasil, mas o texto é em inglês
Hist
Resenha:
Desde época do colégio, diga-se de passagem à milênios, que venho tentando adquirir este livro danado. Nunca fez sentido, pelo menos pra mim, os outros dois livros da série serem lançados aqui no Brasil e Texas Healer não, nem a versão inglês, sempre fiquei indignada com este fato.
Agora anos e anos depois a Amazon Brasil liberou esta nova versão em inglês para ser vendida, é óbvio que isto só aconteceu porque esta onda dos ebooks definitivamente pegou por aqui, caso contrário jamais aconteceria. Ninguém pode mensurar o tamanho da minha felicidade!!!
Antes de me aprofundar na história devo confessar que fiquei mega surpresa, achei que tudo seria mais simples entre Dan e Luz da Manhã, principalmente porque no fim do livro "Jessie" ficou evidente que os dois ficariam juntos, mas aqui não foi tão simples, pelo contrário, muito complicado e com muito sofrimento...
Quer ler a resenha completa e muito mais, visite o blog Momentos da Fogui:
http://foguiii.blogspot.com/2018/06/s...
August 18, 2023
this book was good in some parts alright in others.
the ending is sad.
this was an intesting read as i have never read one that has so much to do with native
americans. i enjoyed that part. the white men (apart from the hero and his family and friends)
really are white demons.
the ending is sad.
this was an intesting read as i have never read one that has so much to do with native
americans. i enjoyed that part. the white men (apart from the hero and his family and friends)
really are white demons.
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