Running Elk

By: Elizabeth Anne Porter

Narrated by: Christy Sassmen

Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

The times are changing faster than Running Elk can keep up with. Every day when the Comanche wakes up, there are fewer buffalo and more white settlers invading the plains where he and his people make their home. Angered as he is by the relentless assault on the land he loves, Running Elk doesn’t think about the differences between his people and the settlers when he spots Alexandria Standish picking flowers one day. The woman’s beauty bowls him over, and Running Elk knows he’ll never be the same again, just like he knows he won’t be able to avoid seeking her out, again and again, no matter the consequences.

Alexandria doesn’t know what to think when she encounters the quiet, handsome Comanche warrior just beyond her wagon train’s encampment. She’s never met anyone who makes her feel this way - not even her husband, who is more brother to her than lover, truthfully. But Running Elk stirs something in her…something she can’t let go of, no matter what. And when he kisses her for the first time, she knows that her world has been forever changed.

Will their love be able to conquer the tide of change sweeping across the country, threatening the only life Running Elk and his tribe have ever known?

©2019 Elizabeth Anne Porter (P)2019 Elizabeth Anne Porter

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Loved the authenticity and very good story! I am hooked on her books!!! Great author!

Not what I was expecting

I was not real thrilled with this storyline. The book turned me off from the beginning.

Engaging story with a two short ending

I really enjoyed it but more time could have been spent on the ending. And the narration really distracted me. The narrator would often mispronounce words or the words would just trail off at the end of a sentence. It detracted from the story.

A love story

This book is a love story. I enjoy the story and the struggles the love story had.
It has no foul language. Violence does not go into great detail. Sex scenes do not go into great detail. Love conquers in the end. The narrator does a good job giving characters their individual voice. The only thing which was a little bit annoying to me was the breathing sounds.
This book was given to me for a unbiased review.

a heartfelt tale

very good book entertaining and well narrated and excellent read as well. Thank you

Great read!

I love the names native Americans use and that sets the scene for the book for me. The story was great, and very sad. As always when one part of society want to rule over another, no good comes of it.
I really enjoyed it. I did not enjoy the narrator, reading too slow.


I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review

Great Native American Story

If you like stories and histories of Native Americans, this book is for you. The audible narration by Christy Sassman is wonderful and her voice conveys the feelings of the characters in the story, with the ability to evoke moods and feelings as she weaves this story. It is almost as if she was doing a radio show from Golden Age of Norman Corwin. I do not know what else she has done but she is talented and should be at the top of the list for anyone who needs a narrator for an audio book.

Sucked me in!

The story sucked me in at the being, but the ending was a bit drawn out and then ended abruptly. Overall the story was a good one and I am glad I listened to it. The narrator did a good job at making different voices for different characters. And they were clear and distinct voices and I feel appropriately executed.

Great story

I always love stories about native American. the way they lived.
This book is a good insight to the life they lived how cruel the white man was to them, took the land killed women and children. slaughtered the animals. how little understanding they got from the white man. Also the story is a love story about white woman and native male how the love never dies the struggle they have to go through to be together. his persistence to be with her.
Great characters well written.
The only thing I wasn't perfectly happy about was the narrator to slow for me but speeding the sound up and it was fine.
Overall great book. I can recommend it.

Exciting!

Tons of twists and gut wrenching moments where your paralyzed waiting to hear what happens next!