Sean Scruggs - Last of the Mohicans

I chose Last of the Mohicans because by the title it sounded like it had the potential for action.  So I read it.  It was written by James Cooper.  With the exception of the first few chapters, which were brutally boring but the rest of the book is action and I enjoyed it.  It takes place during the seven years war between the British and the French.  The book takes place on the frontier and follows the journey of two sisters going to visit their father at a besieged British fort.  Once you get past the sisters persistence to go into a war zone, more precisely a death trap the book is actually quite good.  The big picture makes no sense but not looking at the plot the book is entertaining, but that is just me.  The constant skirmishing throughout the book keeps the reader so focused on the little details that you forget that the majority of the book is about two sisters going to see their father who is in charge of a fort that inevitably surrenders.  The reason I say "majority of the book" is because, of course the fort surrenders and main characters are taken prisoner.  Call it what you want, but this book should not have been written without some plot adjustments or character adjustments.  It doesn't make any sense for two sisters to go to a fort that is being shelled.  Once they are en route of of the girls even starts to question the fact that they are going into a war zone after being brought into a native American turf war by their guides.  One of those guides is a white woodsman and two are Mohican Indians who are father and son, the last of their race.  Throughout the book, the author refers to the other native American tribes as evil, like the "evil Hurons", grant it the main characters are constantly fending off Huron warriors that shouldn't make them evil.  In the end this turf war costs one of the sisters her life and the Mohican son his life.