Review: Country Music and Cowboys
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 11, 2012
Relentless is a contemporary romance and is book five in Ms. Douglas' Nashville Nights series. Nikki Spencer is young, ambitious and determined to make her way to the top of the country music business. Nothing and no one will get in her way.J.T. is a successful bull rider, a man at the top of his game and starting to think about retiring. He's rich, sexy and has a reputation as a ladies' man. He's bad boy through and through and has enjoyed every moment of his life to date.These two know they're not right for each other, not when they're at different stages of their lives, not with the age difference between them, yet somehow that doesn't seem to matter when the attraction between them is magnetic.Ms. Douglas has done a good job in making this a standalone story, despite it being book five in her Nashville Nights series. It wasn't difficult to follow the characters without previous knowledge of the stories. The combination of country music, cowboys and bull riders grabbed my attention first, and I enjoyed this aspect of the story very much.When Nikki and J.T. were on the page together, the sparks flew and their attraction sizzled on the page. J.T.'s character grew during the story, and I liked the way he settled down and wanted to change his previous womanizing ways for Nikki.Where the story didn't work as well for me was the plot. The hero and heroine's relationship was very stop-start--usually in the middle of the love scenes. I felt a long chat might have solved some of the conflict between them since a portion of the tension was due to misunderstandings rather than genuine problems.Conclusion: While this particular story didn't work for me as much as I'd hoped, the setting and the easy writing would entice me into trying another of the Nashville Nights series.