dobpizzazz's Reviews > Claiming Her Legacy

alright here’s the thing, there were many things in this book i didn’t like that i am well aware came along with the time period of which this is written.
for instance,
1. our naive main character assuming that girls in the saloon working, actually want to be there and chose that life- when indeed that’s not the case for many. i was glad that was addressed at the end of the book.
2. the amount of times the women are described as “delicate” making them “unable” to do things.
3. or the sister with a disability that is called “lame” like that of a horse in that time period. didn’t like it, but i also feel like i can’t criticize it too much because no one is claiming that it’s right- only describing things how they were often “portrayed” in that period. like a woman being too “delicate” to do certain things (definitely goes back to a patriarchal based time)
4. comments of “indian territory” and not having good run ins with “them”, and what not. clearly prejudice comments that were unfortunately the more widespread opinion of the time- especially to those uneducated. it didn’t sit well with me.
5. speaking of uneducated, our main girl referring to herself as “stupid” because she couldn’t read. i didn’t like it- but, i unfortunately have to keep the time period in mind on how things were described and what people said about those not going to school and crap (though I’m most definitely not saying it’s right, bc we all know it’s not [or should know by now]).

there are more things but i’m not going to go on and on

i liked that our main girl challenged a lot of the norms of that time.
completely unrelated but i wish our first kiss scene was better but i suppose i’ve been spoiled with all my other romance novels lmao. i suppose the minimal sentence description of her first kiss with the guy is because it is “christian-based.” personally, i wish the scene was a bit better/longer bc of all the build up, but i am keeping in mind that the author is older and is writing in what she is probably most comfortable with and raised “good” or not, for someone to be writing. also i know that writing anything sensual is highly discouraged for certain christians so i wasn’t surprised in the slightest.

i didn’t realize going into the book that it was christian based. i myself am a christian and i will admit that normally i don’t read many christian books for fear of the writing being taken in the most extreme way (srry it’s difficult to explain). for instance, there was a time in the book our girl was saying her sister was a better christian than her because she had more bad thoughts like wacking men over the head and what not. i personally don’t believe that made our girl any less christian- only human. i know i have those thoughts atleast 10 times a day. in those same scenes i was thinking the same thing as our mc. maybe for the author that would make me appear as not “as good of a christian” in her eyes, but i disagree. everyone has thoughts and sins all of the time with or without knowing and that doesn’t make you a “better” or “worse” christian than someone else. there are no levels of christianity in someone being higher or lower up than the other.

shortening this review, i definitely felt like i could actually resonate with our main girl who was openly opinionated and strong willed- so i’m grateful she was our mc because had she not i probably would have found it much harder to connect (personally). i liked that bible verses and things were brought up that i myself haven’t heard in some time. overall i liked it, didn’t love it- but am happy that this random ass book i picked up purely for the cover (bc currently watching 1883 😗) turned out to be not as bad as i thought

i’ve got two more mom books from walmart to read so GET READY 🤓😎🥵🤭🤯