Review: jealousy and envy are poor bed fellows indeed
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 24, 2013
Pulling Leather makes for a fantastic title, one that makes you want to read it. Even though I read the first book it took me about 3 chapters to finally straighten out who was who again (which was Oak and which was Ash? that was my dilemma, somehow I had them mixed up).The story in itself wasn't quite as rich and gritty as the first installment, however with that said, in the last novel I really didn't care for Oak. I wanted to give him a bitch slap and tell him to stop being so awful and bratty, but in this one he's my fave. This time Nya Rawlyns managed to portray heartbreak so very well in his character, that that alone is enough to warrant the 5 stars.I'll admit I felt Jess was portrayed as a 75 year old, not a 44 year old. He sounds bloody ancient, and he sounded like a cougar (but the male version), and though he and Luc had their time in the spotlight, to me Carmen and Oak get the gold stars for leading actors in this novel.Fave quote: Love, if it showed up on your porch step at all, came in its own good time. And sometimes it left before you even had a chance to answer the knock on your door.Truth be told, I didn't think Nya did careful writing, but she did in this one. She backed away from the hard and the gritty, she played it safe. I don't like safe, but I can tell you that good writing gets you forming an opinion about everyone, and I certainly have a very strong opinion about all of them at this point.Although I did almost stop reading when Oak was riding the grey so hard. Being a horse lover I actually put the book down then and almost didn't continue reading, so thank you Luc Santiago for breaking his face for me!I expected a lot of things from this novel, what I got instead wasn't what I anticipated. There was no love in this one. There was a lot of lust and lip service about love, but there was no love I could feel. If anything I think that angry sex everyone kept talking about should have happened. It would have given the tension closure.I loved it, and I loathed it. I have mixed feelings which is unlike me. Because I have such high emotions about this one I'm giving it 4.5 stars.I know there's more to come, and I'm hoping the opening line of the next novel is: And Ash had his pride handed to him with five knuckles to the face and his sister putting a constipation cure in his soup. Ash was my favorite, I expect his status being returned because I love Crow Creek.