When I give a book four stars and then rant about it for two paragraphs

*spoilers*

I liked this, but I didn’t love this. It didn’t make me feel anything. This was a true enemies to lovers and she did a really good job with the subject matter and research, but I didn’t feel the love. I didn’t see when they fell for each other, they went from him ignoring her and spending months and months away from her to boom, love and married. This was actually more historical fiction than romance. I think the author spent a lot of time making sure she got the Native American perspective right and the historical elements right that the romance was missed. And I’m totally only really complaining because this author can kill you with the love and angst, but she just didn’t here.

The ending was abrupt, their coming together was abrupt and the only reason these two survived at all was because she was a very wealthy white woman. I mean, totally realistic, for sure, but usually this author gives us the feels with the two mains working together to build a life, this one I didn’t get to see any of that. It just ended and flashed forward to 30 years later. Ugh. Too bad. I still love her and this was still an engaging read. Just not so much for the romance.