Review: Can't wait to read the sequel
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2014
Joe Sutton is probably one of the most likeable guys I’ve ever read about. He is rock solid, in both body and family values. He may have started out a little rough but once you understand why he was standoffish, you immediately forgive his five minutes of being a jerk.Mackenzie is spoiled rotten. He is used to being taken care of and has no issues with being a gold digger living off a sugar daddy, as long as he gets what he wants in the long run. Love has no place in his life. He doesn’t want it, he doesn’t need it, and he doesn’t care what anyone says as long as he gets what he wants.These two sound like fire and ice, water and oil, or good vs. evil…and you wouldn’t be all wrong, nor all right. Mackenzie really is clueless. He doesn’t mean to be a jerk, he just hasn’t experienced real love before nor anyone who really cared about him personally, so you learn to quickly to forgive him and even begin to like him too. Joe really doesn’t have a chance; he is smitten, even though he doesn’t want to be, poor thing.Joe is a rancher/dad to his younger orphaned siblings/ dad to his youngest brother’s son/ caretaker of all things related to the Sutton clan. Joe knows nothing but work and responsibility. Mackenzie is a model who is trying his hands at creating his own business, and if that doesn’t work he will just go back to the city. These two are on two totally different wave lengths but the attraction is there and they both give it a go…but only on a casual basis, at first.There is family drama, family secrets, misunderstandings, and an awful ex-boyfriend. At times I wanted to shake Joe and many times I wanted to punch Mackenzie, but in the end they were really good for each other. Both were at opposite extremes but together they evened the other one out.Not the tear jerker that you got with the Dark Horse series, but the characters were real and the writing is neat and concise. Kate Shewood is a favorite of mine and I will definitely be reading the sequel.