Review: Sex Over Plot
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2013
I think if I'd read this bundle before I read the "Love Me Some Cowboy" bundle, I would have liked this one more.  Unlike "Love Me Some Cowboy" this one is definitely EROTIC romances, most of which have fantastically hot love scenes, but the actual quality of the stories / plot / character development isn't always as well done as the other bundle.  There is a way to have both hot erotica and a great story, but most of these stories don't. For the price of 99 cents it's worth the buy / read if you're looking for some erotic romance cowboy stories, but in my opinion it's not the best bundle out there.  It's decent and I'll be looking up a couple of the authors, but definitely not all of them."Hell Yeah" is more like "Yeah... Okay..."  There are good characters here and a wonderful story, but it's a little too quick and a little too easy - especially for such a long story.  The story description tells you the basic gist of the plot, but what it doesn't tell you is how quick and easy it is for both characters to just hop into bed with each other.  I can kind of understand it for Libby, because she's not sure how long she has to live, but Aron supposedly hasn't been with a woman for 2 years, not since he divorced his grasping ex-wife, but he calls "Tag" on Libby before he even sees her face!  Tag being the way a brother calls Dibs on a girl, since the McCoys are numerous and hot.  Sure he backs off when he finds out she's an innocent... for about two seconds until like half an hour later she's masturbating out in the open and yells his name loudly enough for apparently the entire farm to hear it when she comes.Hm.  Actually Hell Yeah might be the perfect name for this book because that's the answer to everything... Aron and Libby jump into bed FAST, they fall in love FAST and they figure out all the answers to all their demons FAST.  The erotic scenes aren't the best I've seen.  They're mostly dialogue actually which was a little weird, although Libby was hilarious during them.  And they're way too long and drawn out.  I would have preferred more drawn out tension between the two characters before they hopped into bed, rather than a long drawn out sex scene within the first two chapters.  Other than the erotica stuff and the quickness of their love, it's a decent read and I was super happy when they got their HEA."Cowboy Jackpot" is a novella... and for a short novella it's not bad.  There's a lot packed into 24 hours... but you have to expect that with a story this length.  Unfortunately it always makes my eyes roll when people fall in love and decide to try living together (thankfully they didn't decide to do the Vegas wedding thing) within that amount of time. For what it is, it's a good read."Her Fated Cowboy" had me sitting up and paying attention, especially after the first two offerings which I was a little "meh" about.  I loved watching Jordan poke at Cole... he needed a good shaking up and she was just the woman to do it, especially because she knew where he was coming from.  They had a lot in common and omgoodness she was so SMART about every part of their relationship.  They didn't move too fast. They didn't jump right into things.  And both of them worked hard to win the other person.  I kinda thought that there was a little bit of unnecessary drama towards the end, when Cole throws yet ANOTHER kink into their pathway to happiness, but considering everything they'd been through it was at least a believable kink."Ride of Her Life" was an erotic short that had more sex than plot, but man was it hot!  Just enough characterization to really get you into the story and plenty of heat all along the way.  Daisy never considered taking on two men at once until Sawyer and Beaut started making the moves on her, but she gets swept away by their dirty words and their combined interest.  As a menage story, it was pretty hot, with just enough development to make it an emotionally satisfying read as well."Sex Ed Cowboy Style" was so implausible that I rolled my eyes most of the way through it.  IT's another erotic short with more sex than plot, but the plot that is there doesn't make a lot of sense.  The characters are all pretty dense, in my opinion.  It kind of seems like a male wet dream where the two women get it on, even though neither of them are lesbians and one of them is supposedly in love with Ed.  The misunderstanding comes about because Kendall's best friend Lacey has the weirdest "seduce him" plan ever, which eventually involves her being part of the lessons so that Ed will touch HER.  Oh, and later she's so excited about Ed telling her that he loves Kendall that Lacey then excitedly kisses him on the mouth - but says it's just sisterly.  EW.  Again, totally implausible.  If you're okay with everyone having sex with everyone then the sex scenes are pretty hot but the overall effect of the story just left me thankful that I paid for it as part of a bundle.  There's also nothing to make this a cowboy story really other than a short scene at Ed's work, but otherwise he might be any other kind of occupation by the way he acts / talks / descriptions of him."Cowboy Up" - this one was pretty good although the base of the storyline was a little farfetched.  Basically fudge infused with a spell from a witch which makes the characters have sexy dreams bout each other.  But the dreams allow them to have all sorts of erotic moments that are pretty hot to read.  Unfortunately it really needed to be longer to further develop their characters; most of the character development was really just the sex development.  Still, it was a hot, fun read.