Review: This Sequel is Great...10 Stars Amy..!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 24, 2012
Well,  Amy Lane fans...We asked for this and Amy has responded. Since her success with The Winter Courtship Rituals of Fur Bearing Critters (Knitting Series) which was a novella from the Dreamspinner Press 2011 Advent Calendar package "I'll Be Home for Christmas,  we all wanted more of Rance's world with his new lover Ben McCutcheon. We wondered all through that book about the "relationship or not" between Jeremy and Aiden. We all had questions about them, and also wanted more info about Ariadne. We needed more of the wonderful people in Rance Crawford's world . The setting is on the alpaca ranch in the Colorado Hills. My secret fly on the wall tells me this is not the only the spin off for this series, that another is coming soon called A Knitter in His Natural Habitat.  I also hear tell some more favorites might play a big part in that book as well.How to Raise an Honest Rabbit begins with Jeremy. His father was a con man and had Jeremy on the road so long, he didn't even know his last name. They went from one flim-flam to another always fleeing the unhappy mark or the police. This finally caught up with his old man in Vegas as he was signing over a phony deed to a Mafia boss. In the next moment the guy pulled out a 45 and shot his father in the head. Jeremy was cloaked hidden behind a curtain, holding his breath in fear he would be found. He waited until the mafia boss had his father's body carted away, and his men washed the blood off the floor. One of the bodyguards for the boss, Gianni knew he was there. The bodyguard did not give him away, and left some money in his room, staking him to a getaway.Jeremy now was alone, as he tried to half heartedly scam alone, not having the heart to go through with it, landing him in jail. Two years later, a little older and wiser, he found himself on the streets of Colorado, living off the handouts of the kind locals and was at the bottom of his luck. This is when Rance Crawford came out of the local wool store making his deliveries, saw something in him and brought this young man home. When Jeremy asked Craw "Why are you offering me this?" Craw laughed and answered "Aiden needs your help" Jeremy asked "Who in the hell is Aiden??? And Craw just laughed.Amy Lane you did it to me again. You wove an intricate pattern knitting away thru this tale like you did in Keeping Promise Rock. These wonderful characters jump off the pages and become so real. You have such a gift. When Jeremy saw Aiden we casted on the stitches and watched what a miracle you made.We watched a young man who never had a chance learn that he did not have to keep talking to feel good about himself. Tears came to my eyes as he met Aiden as they shook hands Jeremy thought "he was at the far end of a dark tunnel and Aiden was the light at the end of it."  I laughed so hard when Jeremy discovered Aiden had bought ear plugs to block out his incessant chatter, and his relief if Aiden couldn't hear him, he could be quiet. When Aiden became of age,  Jeremy figured he had some growing up to do too.The story is a slow blossoming of two young men falling in love making their way to each other. Just watching Jeremy when he met the rabbits and the alpacas was such a sweet experience. We watch Jeremy, excited to have a bed, a door to close and be safe, havefood and not be hungry, and you are shattered for him. As always in all Amy Lane books, the story is a myriad of color, of weaving a story with yarn and love and family. There are always a few tissues needed, but by far this love story needed to be told.  Rance is the rock of this family and I love him and Jeremy and Aiden are even sweeter.  Will Jeremy's dark past come back to haunt him?I so cannot wait to read more about these wonderful people who have wormed their way into my heart!!!! November cannot come soon enough.Review by Gloria LakritzSr Reviewer and Review Chair for the Paranormal Romance Guild