A fun romp through a bunkhouse full of sexy cowboys! ~ Leigh, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
When widow Angela McClure decides to let loose and start a secret affair with a younger ranch hand, she inflames rancher Dusty Jackson’s long simmering desire. Both men are irresistible – and forbidden – so Angela forms a plan to divert her old-fashioned father’s suspicions: flirt with all of “her cowboys.’ The new competition makes Circle Bar K ranch hotter than it’s ever been before…
Review copy provided for an honest review
I’m having a hard time deciding on whether I liked this book or not, because I can’t tell if Ms. Brooks was intending for this to be a romance or a comedy. If it was comedy, then mission accomplished! But if it was intended to be more, it fell a little short of the mark. That’s not to say that it wasn’t an entertaining story. Or that it didn’t make me want to own my own ranch and have my own stable of cowboys. It just was a little lacking in sophistication in the relationships for me to take it seriously.
Angela McClure is a widow with a bunkhouse full of cowboys that she doesn’t seem to know that well. On her way home one day, she encounters Troy, a sexy, down on his luck cowboy and takes him home to work as a ranch hand and boy toy. Troy’s presence seems to upset the balance at the ranch when Dusty, a cowboy who has loved Angela from afar for years despite rarely speaking to her, become jealous of the competition.
In order to throw off her father and the foreman’s suspicions that she hired a cowboy strictly for sex, she decides that flirting with ALL of the cowboys would be a better option. Angela has been mourning her husband’s death for too long and finally coming out of her shell, she goes completely wild.
If you can call being giggly and having a “cutest balls” contest in the barn going wild.
The issues I had with the story were twofold. First, the descriptions. I could not get past the fact that the words “syrup”, “honey” and “hot sauce” was used to describe how aroused the men were getting. Second, everyone fell in love too easily. It seemed every cowboy on the ranch was in love with Angela, despite that they never said more than two words to her. And she was afraid to start anything with any of these men for fear of having to deal with her father or the foreman, yet she picks up a hitchhiker and brings him home and installs him at the ranch for sex. Couple that with the fact that she seemed to kiss and fondle every man at the ranch in front of the others and no one has an issue with it, asks all of the cowboys to rank equipment size with all the others based on what they’ve seen in the showers, and holds contests on who has the best rear end, and it just didn’t scream romance to me.
Overall, this was a fun romp through a bunkhouse full of sexy cowboys. But it was hard for me to take it seriously or understand the attraction the cowboys felt. As a comedy it was very entertaining. I think I just went into the story expecting a bit more.
3.25 Stars
Thanks for the review Leigh