Review: Nice menage but short
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 3, 2010
To start: The Daly Way is a series set in Daly, Wyoming where there are very few women... I can't remember the exact numbers thrown out but something like 167 guys to 7 women type of thing. The first book in the series is "Belonging To Them".I like this book, but it didn't bowl me over. I enjoy Brynn Paulin as an author, and I though the first book in this series was great... or might've been move inclined to give this book 3 stars (too bad you can't give half stars...). This book was a bit too short so that the characters didn't really have time to develop, and the plot held little tension. It can be difficult and swampy if you're trying to flesh out 5 people involved in a menage, and I understand that the core of this menage was actually three people... but even those three main characters were lacking in facets. The woman, Paisely, was well developed and likable the two men, Ace and Brant, weren't -- the other two parts of the menage were meant to be "in passing" so I wasn't expecting to really get to know them. For example Brant's cousin (who is there to help on the ranch for a few months) talks to him about what a great writer he was in college, and asks him if he still writes (Brant says no because he's too busy with the ranch)... I expected that at some point that would come into play... perhaps in way of deepening the relationship between Brant and Paisely (wooing her with an old bit of writing... let her see his more creative side... etc) but it never came to fruition.That said, over all it was a nice, easy read. The sex scenes were good... not as smoking as they could have been. For the price it's worth reading. However if you haven't read "Belonging To Them" I go with that. I hope that Brynn continues this series but with slightly longer stories that permit the characters and plot to be more fully developed; there's plenty of room for that with this setting.Warning: This book does have M/M action so if that bothers you go for something else.