Review: Texas men, didn't anybody tell them never to miss a good chance to shut up?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2014
RC provided by Beyond the Page Publishing via NetGalley for a fair and honest review(The is sex scenes in this novel are explicit, recommended for 18 and over)I really found this book to be a well written and fun to read.  I really like the characters and the amount of time that the author spent building those characters.  I did feel that Jesse’s character was portrayed as just a little TOO damaged – but that is just my opinion.  I wish the book had been longer so that we could have gotten to know more about the other family members.I did find it very interesting that a very large part of the book was told from Jesse’s perspective, which is unusual for a romance.  Most of the book is written in a current perspective – it doesn’t delve into his background much, while it is doing narration in his mind.  That might have been helpful if it had to better understand why he was so damaged.  It does go into why he is the way he is, but more detail might have made it more believable for me.One thing most people will not realize when reading this book is that throughout the South each region has it’s different brand of “slang”…..or sayings.  I was not born in the South, but my parents both were born in the area that this book is written in.  Now my husband was born and raised in Georgia and he has heard me used quite a few of the different sayings that I learned from my parents and kin and that were used in this book - ones he had never heard before in his life.At first I thought it was a little strange he hadn’t never heard expressions like “he needed to be taken out behind the barn and shown the what to and what for”, which usually goes along with picking your own switch.  That expression wasn’t used in this book, but it is an example how different phrasing will become embedded in different areas of the South.Now the reason I brought that up?  Is because Keira Cole hit the nail right on the head  with her dialogue and expressions – it reminded me so much of visiting my kin back in Texas it was so unreal.  If you pay attention you will notice the most common word uttered in disgust is  “bulls***”.  My dad never lost his Texas accent and that was a word he used often and he pronounced it “bullsheeet”……..it reminded me of my dad so much!!!!Now especially funny, there is a remark about Google, that I will not reveal via spoiler, that to me was so funny, that I have committed it to memory.  Actually, come to think of it – there were many times while reading this book, I found myself laughing out at the antics and dialog of the characters – especially Jesse’s saying he “learned a long time ago there’s only two theories concerning arguing with a woman and neither one of the works.  The way he sees it, you might as well paint your butt white and run with the antelope”.