Review: Fabulous romance keeps it real
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 22, 2014
My Heartache Cowboy by Z. A. Maxfield – 4 STARS(Be forewarned that this is /M/M/M romance with graphic sex scenes)I follow book bloggers because I often find books I never would have considered reading this way. That’s how I stumbled across My Heartache Cowboy.A review on the Seductive Musings blog really intrigued me so I went and downloaded the sample from Amazon. Well, what do you know, by the time I’d finished the sample I had to buy the book and finish it. Isn’t that a sign of a good story – you have to buy the rest of the book once you’ve started it.Obviously, I’m not really interested in M/M/ or M/M/M sex (although I learned a few things), but the central relationship was wonderful, powerful, and real.The two main characters are cowboys, working cowboys not rich; they don’t own the ranch they work on etc.  Eddie and Jimmy aren’t hot young things either. They are 42 and 38 and have known each other for years. They are best friends first and foremost, and soon become much more.Jimmy is an alcoholic and his friend Eddie is determined to help him go AA. Enter their surgeon friend Don. I found him the weak link. He’s 52, been sober for over ten years and is there to help. I didn’t warm to him at all. I thought he was a user. He has a wife and kids but is gay and they all live separate lives. He is the one who makes Jimmy face both his alcoholism and that he’s a closet gay. The men start a threesome, I was going to say relationship, but it’s not. It’s simply sex. Don also tries to get Jimmy to face what he feels for Eddie, but something that happened in Jimmy's childhood, and the death of his brother, who he feels responsible for, makes him hide his true self and feelings.I think I would have loved the book even more if Don weren’t in it. However, he is the catalyst for making Jimmy face his demons. I think it would have made the book stronger, if that role went to Eddie.I think Z. A. Maxfield did a superb job with these characters. I loved them. I loved how they spoke to each other, how they thought about life and how their relationship unfolded and they faced their demons from their past.If you’re after a romance that’s a bit different, download the sample and see what you think.