Review: The best so far...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2013
Book two in the “Cowboy Lovin’” series, this story revolves around the lives of the eldest Young son, Jeff, and Terri – an architect working with the development company recently buying up parcels of land around the ranch for redevelopment.Animosity instantly develops between them as soon as they meet with Terri as the face of the threat against Jeff’s family ranch. After Terri decides to stay at Thunder Ridge to try and gather some more information for her employers, her and Jeff’s antagonism-veiled-as-lust turns into outright lust. Although Jeff is angry with Terri for showing up at his home, he can’t restrain himself; his anger fueling his desire for her.Jeff’s want for her is strong, but it’s his history with his ex that makes him reluctant to let her any closer than just being a friend with benefits. But it’s not just Jeff who’s risking something. Terri is risking her heart by letting herself grow more and more attached to Jeff and his young son, Ben, even though she’s only going to be at the ranch for two weeks while she’s gathering information for her bosses.Despite the expiration date looming over their heads, both Jeff and Terri willingly give themselves to each other, although not always completely. I’m not going to give anything away, but I was expecting a happily ever ending at one point, but was thrown through a loop when Terri and Jeff end up have a major disagreement. But don’t worry. You’ll get your sweet sigh of contentment by the end of this book even if it comes in an unexpected form.I like this book a lot better than the first and third in the series for the simple fact that Jeff has actual issues that he was struggling with. It drove the story forward; his fears giving substance to the plot and to how Jeff reacts to certain things. He’s been burned before…badly, but it’s the love of a special woman that helps to heal him.“I don’t have a heart left to give anyone even if I wanted to. All I have left, I give to my son. I live for him and only him.”Nina is once again instrumental in her sons’ lives. She has all their boys’ happiness at the center of her heart, and she does her best to help them to realize their errors. As I’ve previously mentioned, I really like Nina because she’s a guardian angel to her family. She is the matriarch, and I would hate to see someone cross her because she would have sharp claws.If there was one thing that I felt detracted from the book, it was the character’s quick decisions with some things. Sometimes they would say one thing, but in the next breath they’d say or do the exact opposite without any clear reason for doing so. I think this happened maybe a handful of times, which gave me pause, but didn’t stop me from putting the book down and refusing to read the rest.I’d also have to say that the sex scenes in this book were perhaps the best of all three so far, although some more variety would have been nice, also. I feel like the characters names could have been substituted with characters from books one and three and it would have been the same.Overall, it is the best out of the three so far. I’ve also been sucked into the Young family world. I’ll be looking for more from Sullivan in the future.