Busty Crossdressers and Generically Bad Indian Names by Cassie Edwards

[meganbmoore]

A few things before I begin:

1.  These things don't deserve my "books" tag.

2.  Lets get something straight before I get started and everyone starts "all romance novels suck" and "there's no such thing as a good romance novel" and "all that matters is the sex scenes in these things anyway":  romance novels are like any other genre, regardless of

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[magicnoire]

I love you.

[meganbmoore]

Like Heero in Gundam Wing, I am a masochist because it gets me declarations of adoration and praise.

[meganbmoore]

ditto

[crumpeteer]

Did Edwards not even look at what she was writing? Did she just randomly slap words and phrases down on pages?

[meganbmoore]

I think you hit it on the nail.

[smillaraaq]

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Oooooooooookay

[meganbmoore]

If you go to the first post in the tag, I linked the document they have, and it's there.

Another long quote for your enjoyment, though.

[smillaraaq]

Ah, the p.41 bit from Arthur Parker? That's all well and good. I'm curious if the bits that she maybe wrote herself have him in head-to-toe-leather or not, and if there's any beadwork to go with the quills and embroidery. By the time period this book is set in there was already an established trade in both cloth and seed beads, and while these trade goods were still relatively special higher-status items they were getting more common, and the transition to cloth garments was already underway. If Mighty Wang is supposed to be some hotshot honored high-status leader sort, he's just the sort of guy who'd be on the cutting edge of that trend.

hm...I know it's an addiction, and that it was a new substance to the Native Americans...but, seriously, unless someone was holding a gun to their heads and forcing them to drink...See, now, this I can give her a pass on, because while the pity-the-poor-alcholic-Indians thing is an often badly-used stereotype, it's very appropriate to this particular setting. Alcohol abuse and the attendant

[meganbmoore]

Through with this post for now.

Honestly, I'm trying to give her a pass on the alcoholism thing for just those reasons, but I can't. Probably because it's barely been mentioned, and is blatantly a flimsy excuse, as oppoed to a real issue. I've mentioned it every time it has, with a much depth as it has.

[smillaraaq]

Now that she was at the village, she was surprised to see that the Seneca did not reside in tepees.

IT'S *1784*. The dominant local tribes live in longhouses, and none of the other non-Iroquois groups anywhere within an even remotely reasonable travel distance live in anything tepee-like. Serious white settlement of the Great Plains doesn't start for almost another century. I can buy the heroine being just dim and inattentive enough to not know what local Indian dwellings are like, but there is no way in hell that cow should even know what a tepee is!

Ai yi yi. I need to dig out my old "WTF?" icon again...