Review: Two cowboys, one rodeo - short and to the point.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
Macon and Wade have been friends for life and lovers for four years...in small town Kansas. They were outed at a rodeo and have been looked at with suspicion and hate ever since, including by their own families. Wade has moved out of home because it is too hard living with a Dad who hates what you are, and it makes him hate himself. He won't let Macon move in with him or stay the night because everyone is watching and judging. Macon, however, loves Wade so much he doesn't care and every little slight stings. They invited to a ranch to train for a rodeo, it's the first time since they were outed they had been able to train. The rodeo world and their training partners had shunned them, the difference here is the people on the ranch are gay and determined to prove to the rodeo world that gay men are not soft or easy to beat.Nice little story, although a bit melancholy. Macon loves Wade with a passion and has no fear, but Wade has fear and a lack of self acceptance. I didn't like it enough to look for the next book in the series. I felt there wasn't quite enough there to get my teeth into, not because it was short but because it was more an exercise in touching on the surface of the story rather than immersing us in their lives.