An Apache Princess

DNF at 38% (ebook)

For such a short book (just over 200 pages), I found this book to be incredibly long.

The book starts off with a young girl outside the fort who happens upon a native american girl. What will happen? Will the become friends? Will they get caught? This seems like it's going to be an good story! Well, who knows what happens to these two because then it switches to other characters and life at the fort. We're given some backstory on fort life, the landscape, army rotations (were they considered army then? There's a corporal so I assume so). The descriptions were excellent. I was instantly whisked away into Arizona fort living in the 1800s. For that I give it 5 stars.

So why the DNF?
Simply, the story jumped around too much. Yes, I was instantly transported to that time period, but the story was too jumbled. I had a hard time following the timeline and what was happening. I felt like I had experienced fort life by the 20% mark and wouldn't get too much more out of it by continuing the book.

It was a good story. However, the writing was choppy and confusing in places; the characters were good, but the mechanics of the plot underdeveloped. It held my interest very well, and yet the details had a way of getting scrambled, so I had to backtrack numerous times to decipher what happened in what order. There was an interesting mystery, but I got the feeling that the author was much more used to writing about the ways of the frontier than of spinning out a properly paced mystery, which led to the confusion.