Review: The gentle kind of falling in love...with characters, locations and love itself
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 24, 2013
For St. Patrick's Day Andi Marquette offered her novella, From the Boots Up, free to readers and I am so glad for this introduction to Marquette's writing. From the Boots Up was a fun romp at a Wyoming dude ranch that had me wanting to get on the internet and sign myself up for a week and I'm not even a horse person. I think it is probably Marquette's gifted ability to bring a location to life through her words and style is what made me start considering such a notion. Overall, the setting of the book was amazing and added another character to the mix as Diamond Rock ranch was a part of Meg and who she was as a woman. Though, there were horses, campfires, trail-rides and even a horse breaking scene, these wonderful descriptions just added to the story of Meg and Gina. The attraction between these two woman was tender, sweet and well developed to have the reader falling in love along with them. It was definitely one of those moments of love from the first sight, and everything following just proving that they were meant to be together. I very much enjoyed this novella.