Review: like finishing a decadent dessert...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 11, 2014
Every time I finish one of Vanessa Gray Bartal's books, I feel like I finished the dessert I didn't realize I was craving until I started devouring it. Now it's over and I just want another slice. And another. And another. What a gift! Never, ever stop writing these delicious stories, Ms. Bartal!Now for the review: great story! Small-town values from his childhood just didn't impress this guy, so he makes a new (albeit shallow) and exciting life for himself in New York City. His high-brow career brings him a friendship with Cam and Belle King. He decides to take his stiletto-wearing, journalist girlfriend on a romantic trip to the King family ranch in Montana for Christmas vacation.What he finds at the ranch is shocking, and makes him question whether his fancy career in New York and the night life and cultural diversity he enjoyed there is worth the loss of the morals and integrity his small town upbringing once taught him. A true crisis of conscience ensues, made all the more complicated by a beautiful and successful, but sick and cranky New York girlfriend, and an intensely honest and forthright Montana blacksmith/farrier who also happens to be the most beautiful woman he's ever seen. What will he do when his romantic Christmas getaway in Montana is over? Will he choose to go back to the New York life he has spent the last 10 years building for himself? Or will he go back to the provincial, backwards life in Ohio that he spent all those years trying to leave behind?I won't ruin it for you. It's so worth reading for yourself!!