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This is the first novel I have ever read from Joan Johnston. She writes a lot of stories in the genre I prefer (historical westerns) and I've been wanting to read one of her stories for a long time. I decided to read Frontier woman because it is the first book in a trilogy about three sisters. Cricket is the youngest of the three sisters and honestly a brat. I kept hoping that she would grow and mature a bit once she met Jarett Credd. I understand that he accepted her tomboyish ways but she fights him almost the entire length of their relationship. She doesn't seem to care or seem to be attracted to him one bit. There is one particularly graphic scene in the book so be advised. I was more interested in the older sisters since they were introduced in the book. I'm not sure if I will read the rest of the trilogy though.


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Frontier Woman Sisters of the Lone Star Joan Johnston 9780440236771 Books Reviews

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It made me cry at stuff I had no idea still hurt me.
It made me laugh, and I enjoy that. The characters are wonderful and good people. the kind that I like to think the world is made of. Lots of hera and heroism. The women in these book are not victims and I like that.
Love her books
I have read this book three times. I absolutely love it. It takes true Texas grit that only a Texas woman can know and throws challenges at her that seem impossible to overcome.
This started out as a great read that I could not put down, but then something happened along the way. I felt that she let Cricket and Creed's story get mussed up. Some of the emotions were over done and repeated endlessly. Other times I was totally enthralled. It made me cry, but again some areas could have been left out or some of the lines taken out they were just repeats.
Frontier Woman by Joan Johnston is set in a fascinating period of United States history. Texas is its own country and is struggling to hold its own against the United States on one side and Mexico on the other. Having little defense, Texas turns to a fairly wild bunch of "Texas Rangers" to patrol its borders and keep its citizens safe from attack. Don't forget the threat of Comanches, too, who are less than pleased with these newcomers staking claim to their homelands.

In this wild territory is a father, Rip, and his three daughters. Sloan, Bay, and Cricket are 19, 18, and 17, and this first story is about Cricket. The other older sisters get their own stories told in subsequent books. It's pretty interesting that it's the youngest sister that we hear about first. Often in these types of trilogies we start with the eldest and work down. Here we go with the wild, impetuous one first, and that's a nice change.

Rip was a take-no-prisoners man, and he equally raised his daughters to be wild. In an era when parents routinely beat children as a normal course of discipline, and children were considered "free farm labor", Rip was fairly average. Modern readers might be upset that he belt-whips his grown women - but remember this was a time period where even wives were routinely whipped by husbands for disobedience. So his behavior, while inappropriate in modern times, *is* period appropriate. As is Cricket's desperate desire to earn his respect.

Now, I say this because Rip is an "instigator" in the story - someone Cricket has to learn to rebel against. However, I do NOT feel as accepting about heroes who are abusive. Yes, certainly, one could make the same argument that abusive men existed in the 1800s. Heck, abusive men exist NOW. However, I am not eager to invest my precious leisure time in extolling the traits of an abusive man as a hero. I want to read about an ACTUAL hero with traits I would want to have in my own life.

So my key issue with Frontier Woman is that I simply am not that fond of Jarrett Creed. He thinks it's delightfully fine to SPANK Cricket to discipline her. Literally every time he has sex with her up until the very end, she's fighting him first. He ignores her refusals and takes her anyway because "he knows best". It makes me extremely upset to think women are OK with the idea that a man can ignore their NO messages because "he knows best" for her. But the scene which makes me most upset is the scene where he literally rapes her while she's a virgin. She says no - just like she does throughout the rest of the book. And what we get is that he ignores her because (trimming to keep this kid-safe)

" ... he was no longer man, but animal, responding to the dictates of his barbarian nature and its unassailable command to procreate the species. When he finally emerged from the red well of pleasure into which he'd descended ..."

So the clear statement here is that men - during sex - are completely out of control and whatever they do is just nature taking its course. What??? So if a woman says NO, it doesn't matter because he's simply "responding to the dictates of his barbarian nature"? How incredibly disrespectful of men, and what an insidiously awful message to even suggest to any woman! Absolutely men CAN hear no, and they CAN STOP. I'm having difficulty even expressing how much this whole scene bothers me.

It is especially disappointing because I had such high hopes for this book. The scenario was great. I love women who can stand up for themselves and protect themselves. I loved the rugged terrain and descriptions of the interesting political situation. I loved that Comanche were going to be involved. However, it devolved into stereotypes. The Texans simply hated the Comanches. The Comanches simply were rape-enthused maniacs (with a tiny few exceptions). The hero loyally rescues his damsel from one situation after another had abandoned his previous beloved wife and child for a fairly inane reason. Cricket puts people into danger time and time again and seems not to care much at all.

The writing style had been great. Compared with so many other poorly written books I've had to slog through recently, I was thrilled at how smooth the writing was, how clearly the scenes were presented, how the visuals were always extremely well laid out. But those technical details all get lost when the plot itself suffers serious issues.

It seems almost minor compared with what I've just covered, but I did want to mention one last point. Cricket is only 17 years old. Yes, I realize absolutely that some women married young in the 1800s. However our stereotypes about all girls marrying at 17 seems to be misguided. The average age of marriage was about 25 years old meaning that half married OLDER than this. This was because children / young adults were needed as farm help and they would only go start their own household when they had stored up the money and means to do that. So all of that being said, the period expectation was that women would be mature and fairly independent before they married. They would often have built up a status in the community - maybe as a schoolteacher, maybe as a seamstress. They would have "broken their parents' guidance" for the most part.

But not Cricket. Cricket is still a rebellious teenager, the age of a high school junior. She is still firmly under her father's thumb and is obsessed with pleasing him and rebelling against him. She has not in any way begun to think of herself as an independent woman. And then along comes Creed and now she is "transferred" from one man to another. In fact at the end of the book she's back under both thumbs! So she has double men telling her what to do! I found that very unappealing. I want to read about what a woman chooses to do and the impact her choices have in life. I'm less interested in reading about what a child complains about while first fighting with her daddy and then fighting against her daddy-surrogate who spanks her when she's bad. There must be a word stronger than unappealing. I can enjoy stories about 17 year olds when they clearly are on their own two feet and acting as an adult woman. Cricket is not that person.

So despite my high hopes and the good quality writing style, there are too many issues with the plot and characters, and especially with the repeated rapes, to make this book one I'd enjoy. Which is a shame, because I was intrigued about the other two sisters. However, if it's going to be more of the same of this, I don't want to read that.
I have to agree with other reviewers who were put off by the main character's careless ways. As she indulged in incident after incident that not only endangered her own life but brought loved ones to the brink of death, her character almost ruined the story. At that point I'm more disappointed with the writer. Having a main character that careless/stupid/thoughtless is just a short-hand way of advancing the plot. Yes, she did mature some emotionally and that made her more endearing. But those character lapses where she caused death and destruction were so fateful they almost took me out of the story. I began to think, "Come on, Joan, couldn't you come up with some other character/incident to move the plot along?" I enjoy the story more when the main character is admirable. It's escapist reading and I'm not entertained by silly, selfish main characters. Plus, it kind of makes the hero look bad when the woman is a fluff-head.

Anyway, I gave the story three stars because it was still a fun read (when you didnt' want to choke the main character) and I like the "preview" of the sisters' stories.
This is the first one n a 3 book series. Unbeknownst to me at the time, I read books 2 & 3 before. They were so good, especially #2 (Comanche Woman ), I just HAD TO read this book to get the story of the youngest daughter of the three, Cricket Stewart. Raised to be the boy father Rip didn't get with his deceased wife. Creighton (Cricket ) is a natural tomboy, so she's never had issue with her role. That is until she finds herself stuck in a pretend role of wife to the handsome ranger Jarrett Creed. He finds her to be a unique handful, but every inch a woman; regardless of her obstinace to face the fact & all the feelings that come with womanhood.
I'm glad I went back to the beginning. it was a great story. Johnston has a way of telling her reader the fictional story with the reality of historical fact, even though it is difficult to accept and reconcile. It leaves you crying at times, but at others laughing or pensive or thrilled. In the end, I was ready to go back and reread the 2nd book again!
This is the first novel I have ever read from Joan Johnston. She writes a lot of stories in the genre I prefer (historical westerns) and I've been wanting to read one of her stories for a long time. I decided to read Frontier woman because it is the first book in a trilogy about three sisters. Cricket is the youngest of the three sisters and honestly a brat. I kept hoping that she would grow and mature a bit once she met Jarett Credd. I understand that he accepted her tomboyish ways but she fights him almost the entire length of their relationship. She doesn't seem to care or seem to be attracted to him one bit. There is one particularly graphic scene in the book so be advised. I was more interested in the older sisters since they were introduced in the book. I'm not sure if I will read the rest of the trilogy though.