Review: It was just kind of all-around blah
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 26, 2014
I have a thing for country boys seeing as I live in the motherfreaking sticks, so when I saw the cover of Destry it was an insta 1-click for me. I’ve read author Lola Stark once before (Tattered Love, her debut novel) and I was also interested to see if her writing had progressed some because it felt so young before. I’m happy to say that her writing style has seemed to develop, but the story lacked any real flavor.Amelia is getting the hell out of town as fast as she can. She walked in on her fiancé and sister banging it out in her own house. She hits the road looking for something different with the idea of possibly starting her life over without the influence of her family. That is until a run in with a cow and one grumpy smoking hot cowboy. Stranded in a small town with no place to go until her car is fixed she stays with said cowboy on his ranch with his two brothers and sister.Destry, our sexy brooding cowboy, wants nothing to do with a city girl like Amelia. He once gave his heart to a city girl when he was younger and wouldn’t be making that mistake again. But for some reason he can’t keep his eyes off her and every time one of his brothers flirts with her he loses his cool. This is pretty much the story. There isn’t really much except two people trying to move on from their past and fighting this attraction they have for each other (even though they like to tell themselves they don’t.)While I can get behind the idea of a simple easy love story, you have to give me some passion or something. Their relationship seemed to lack any luster.  Even the sex was plain and clinical as could be. I know the author could have done better in that area because I’ve seen it in her other book. Maybe she doesn’t think cowboys get down and dirty unless it’s with livestock... wait that sounds… oh well doesn’t matter. I could have cared less if they were together or not (the hero and heroine… not the livestock and the cowboy) but maybe that was because the author failed to connect me to them. Their issues to me, while sucky, didn’t seem like that big of a deal. Ok you got your heart kind of broken… ok you let your mom and dad run your life. Maybe if the author would have gone into more details I would have cared, but for some reason I couldn’t grab onto anything except for a side story about the town drunk's wife (which I hope that gets a book because I’ll read that.)I did have a few giggles being able to relate to some of the country ways, but on the flip side of that I also found some of them to be annoying and a little cliché. I often felt like the southernism of the story was forced at times and caught myself rolling my eyes a time or two.  If you want to do a quickie insta-love book you have to give the reader something. This seemed to lack even giving me one great thing to grab onto… no outstanding sex, no alpha cowboys, no great shows of love. It was just kind of all-around blah. Even at the climax at the story I was like… wait that’s it?! Come on! Where is my major show of love or something? I have no clue if I’ll be checking out the next or not (especially if it has a price tag of 3.99 like this at 136 pages.) I guess it will depend on which character the author chooses to do, but I didn’t really have a strong hold to any except to the one little mention of the town drunk’s wife.