Review: My intro to cowboy romance!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 27, 2012
Holy smokes, that was hot. This is a true erotic romance. There's a lot of sex, but it was there for a reason.I think this may have been only the second cowboy romance I've ever read, and that's because I'm really an East Coast girl at heart. I didn't know anything about cowboy country and couldn't picture it until I actually moved out here last year. These characters and settings make sense to me now and I think I'll be reading a lot more of these.I'll avoid overt plot references and spoilers here because everything that happens in the book is so intricately woven together it's difficult not to give anything away. The pacing was excellent and the romance and all the little subplots climaxed at just the right times.Zach is the sort of take-charge alpha male that made me start reading romances in the first place. I'll admit to being a feminist, but every time he called Dusty "My woman" I swooned a little. His character was fleshed out so well that I could just tell that off-screen he's the sort of man who'd catch a grenade for his woman (excuse the Bruno Mars tie-in there but it seemed appropriate).I cried twice (not in a bad way) and had quite a few hearty chuckles at the subtle humor such as this: "'Yeah, not a literal whisper.' Chad's lips twisted into a wide leer. 'She uses a flute and a turban. She's a regular bull swami.'"I got my tidy happily-ever-after ending and stayed up until 4:45 a.m. to get it. I read this through in one sitting, and started the spin-off, A Cowboy and a Gentleman, at 4:46.5 stars because this is a story I'll read more than once.