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title: "Enemy Women"
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# Enemy Women

**Brand:** paulette jiles
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## Customer Reviews

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    Should be a movie
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 30, 2022*

Good general idea of life in border states between North and South . To think that Americans could treat EACH OTHER so awful is not for the weak hearted. I pray we don't have another civil war.Randy Richardson, B.A. History.

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    good book but with distractions
  

*by M***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 29, 2022*

This is my second endeavor by Paulette Jiles, the first being the very good ‘News of the World’. ‘Enemy Women’ was her first novel and as almost everyone knows, her books intentionally lack quotations and sometimes punctuation and sentence structure. Although much easier to tolerate, her last book still retains these faults in spite of numerous reader complaints about them. That tells me that Jiles is going to continue along this path. Too bad.Adair Colley is an interesting character, and I could get behind her determination to survive in a world gone crazy. A world where civilians are alternately mistreated (up to and including killed) by Union troops, then the CSA troops. Major William Neumann is also a survivor, but because of a different drive. Both of these protagonists see past the rough exterior of their worlds. For Adair, it is her resourcefulness to make use of odd things that come her way as she journeys toward home. Luck is stumbling across folks that are a help to her. Stumbling across her lost horse, Whiskey. Stumbling across Greasy John, and obtaining the planned path dangerous Union Militia territory. Some may think these coincidences are too convenient. Maybe they are, but she wouldn’t have survived without them. Through it all she can still appreciate and enjoy the beauty of her natural Missouri. For Neumann, it is the chaos and sacrifice that is war and to survive it, though not unscathed. He proves to be necessarily brutal when the antagonist pushes too far, threatening to stop his reuniting with the love of a woman.Jiles seems to be able to put the reader into a scene deftly, but she suffers from wordiness much too often which causes this reader to wonder from time to time, “What in the hell is she going on about?” It seems that the author loses her way now and then, and has gone off on a tangent. I also found the onslaught of colloquiums of the nineteenth century distractingly overdone. Camisette? What is that? Ankle-jacks? A tiny explanation would be helpful. What good is writing if your reader doesn’t know what you are saying? I also disliked the unrelated excerpts from various sources at the beginning of each chapter. Okay as an appendix, though. 3 strong stars.

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    Know Thine Enemy
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 30, 2019*

A quietly powerful novel, “Enemy Women” allows the reader to follow in the footsteps of eighteen year old Adair Colley through what some consider the living nightmare that is her life as she travels mostly by foot across the countryside near the end of the Civil War. Adair begins her journey with her two sisters after their home was burned out and their father was beaten and taken by Union guerrilla soldiers. Along the way, the sisters are separated when Adair is falsely accused of aiding the enemy and subsequently imprisoned where she meets and falls in love with the Union major who is her interrogator. Major Neumann helps her escape and her long journey begins.Author Paulette Jiles has created an extraordinary character in Adair, one who is uncommonly well educated and devoid of behavior or actions typical for young women of that era. She exhibits uncommon courage and bravery in the face of numerous circumstances that test her physical endurance, her mental acuity and her indomitable inner spirit. The term “survivor” is certainly apropos. As Adair meets and deals with each challenge as it comes, Jiles deftly reveals the causal changes in her personality and demeanor so we feel the changes with her. It’s a rare talent that can create those illusions and sweep the readers up and carry them along for the ride. This story is rich in texture and poetic phrasing that will make your heart sing. Jiles is a rare talent indeed. My only criticisms are; the numerous obscure terms that were never explained and had me scrambling for my online dictionary, and the strange formatting which omits quotation marks and uses capitalization inconsistently. Four and a half stars.

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