Wade is my new cowboy book boyfriend. With a charming cowboy and a damsel in distress, this book was a nice escape from reality. ~ Leigh, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
In rural Montana…
Wade Knowlton is a hardworking lawyer who’s torn between his small-town Montana law practice and a struggling family ranch. He’s on the brink of exhaustion from trying to save everybody and everything, when gorgeous Nicole Powell walks into his office. She’s a damsel in distress and the breath of fresh air he needs.
Even the lawyers wear boots…
Nicole Powell is a sassy Southern girl who has officially sworn off cowboys after a spate of bad seeds-until her father’s death sends her to Montana and into the arms of a man who seems too good to be true. Her instincts tell her to high tail it out of Montana, but she can’t resist a cowboy with a slow hand…
Review copy provided for an honest review
Needing a break from a lot of the darker books I’ve been reading lately, Slow Hand was a welcome change. It was light and romantic and the characters were sweet and interesting.
Wade is my new cowboy book boyfriend. He’s the gentleman rancher you can take home to your mama. He’ll pull out your chair and open your car door. He’s the sexy attorney that can handle your problems. And he’s a stallion in bed (or truck or cabin floor or…). He comes to Nikki’s rescue time and time again, and aside from being sexy as hell, he seems like a genuinely good guy. I love his aw, shucks demeanor and his Midwest charm, and he shows that chivalry is not dead.
Nikki took me a little more time to like. She complained about not wanting to get involved with cowboys time and time again, and I wanted her to give Wade more of a fair chance than she was wanting to give him. Actually, what I wanted to do was shove her aside and take Wade for myself, but if that wasn’t happening, I just wanted her to stop lumping him in with all of the other losers she had apparently chosen in her life. But she was a sympathetic character, and she grew on me.
With a charming cowboy and a damsel in distress, this book was a nice escape from reality. The supporting characters were just as interesting (if not more so!) than Wade and Nikki, and I feel as if the author is setting them up for stories of their own.
The one thing that I will call out, however, was some of the sexual banter. I love a dirty talker, but I was literally cringing when I read some of this. I will never look at cattle the same way again after reading Nikki’s argument to have sexually satisfied cows as some sort of sexual innuendo, alluding to Wade’s performance. So wrong.
But, cow porn aside, Slow Hand was a pleasure to read. It was sweet, romantic, sexy and gives me a hankering for some boots and spurs! Looking forward to reading about Wade’s brother, Dirk, Nikki’s sister Shelby, and even Allie, Wade’s former lover who I expected to hate, but had to admire for her ambition. Any books with these characters will be welcome on my “to be read” shelf!
Thanks Leigh for the review