Review: Not up to Stacey Espino's usual standards
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2012
I have read most if not all of Ms Espino's stories, and have enjoyed them until this story. Wendy's husband died (don't know how) over 20 years ago. In that time Wendy has raised her 4 children and has done everything she could to keep her farm going. Now this is admirable, but to me she comes across as a martyr (?). She keeps thinking she has to work herself to the bone because it is her duty. She won't accept any outside help because she see's it as not being loyal to her dead husband. I got really tired of listening to her thoughts going on and on as to how tired she is of trying to keep food on the table and pay the bills and how her wheat is dying and yet again she won't accept any help, especially from her neighbor Wade, who is a wealthy rancher who loves her. I could understand it if her husband had died one or two years ago after many years of being married and raising their children together. I had to pretty much force myself to keep reading until it finally started to get better just before half the story was gone. Yes Wade and Jackson (the boarder she has to take in after her son gets married and moves out, leaving her to do her already backbreaking work and his too) are hot, sexy cowboys, one almost 50 and the other 29. And the sex is very hot, but we don't get to it until the last quarter of the book. If it weren't for Wendy I could recommend this book but unfortunately, she is the main character of the story. Stacey, please stay with books that aren't this woe is me from now on. This is a 2 and a half star rounded up.