Savage Nights

by Cassie Edwards

PBK

Genres: Romance, Historical Romance, Native American, Historical Fiction, Historical

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Edwards began writing romances in 1982 and released her 100th novel, Savage Skies, on August 28, 2007. Although her earlier books were classic historical romances, the vast majority of her novels involve Native American tribes. Edwards's grandmother was a full-blooded Cheyenne. Her first 99 books sold a combined 10 million copies as of August 2007, with her more recent novels averaging sales of 250,000–350,000 copies.

Edwards has won the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award and the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, as well as being named one of Affaire de Coeur's top ten favorite romance writers. Edwards has a reputation for meticulously researching the proper anthropological backgrounds of each tribe she writes about.

Edwards and her husband Charles, a retired high school biology teacher, have been married for over 50 years. They have two sons, Charles and Brian, and three grandchildren. The family lived in St. Louis, Missouri for over thirty years, but now reside in Mattoon, Illinois.

Reviews

[TwistedRose]

Bound by duty to marry arrogant General Porter, Leonida Branson wants more from life. When she finds herself eye to eye with Sage, the fierce Navaho chieftan, Leonida catches a glimpse of how adventurous, how passionate, how different her life can be.

Sage knows he should keep his distance from the general’s fiancée, but every flash of her golden curls steals his breath and drives him to distraction. Intense desire flows through him, and it takes all of his hard-won control to keep from sweeping Leonida away, to teach her the joys of love all through the long…Savage 

[Ambisaurus Rex · Rating 2 out of 5]

Maybe a 2.5

The fact alone that this book's title was changed to include the word Savage in it is absolutely wild. Aside from that this book was a better take on the whole white woman/Native American man trope but not by much. The writing was fairly decent but the characters were just a bit less complex than you'd think they'd be. The sex scenes were more than plenty but they weren't really all that great. Not really sure what else to say about this one.

[Crystal · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good story. I actually liked that it had the more realistic feel of the white man invading the indian territory, rather than it ending 100% happily ever after.

[E Wilson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Evidently this author has a whole series of historical romances based on the American
Indian. This was the typical plot of white woman gets captured by Indians and falls in love
with the handsome Indian Chief. The story itself was OK and some of the information about the
Navajo beliefs and customs was interesting. However the sex scenes occurred almost like clockwork
about every 50 pages and they were too explicit and too repetitive. I just skipped over them
after awhile.

[Denise Koopman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazing. What else is their to say.