Wild Cowboy Ways | 
panWhoo boy, here we go. This was…not good. I stuck it out but it was tough.
Allie falls for new neighbor Blake while doing reno work on his dilapidated ranch house. She‘s been burned before, he wants to change his wild ways (yes, expect to see the title words show up about six times).
Standard fare, but I have ISSUES. First, see above - who talks like that? The dialogue is unnatural throughout. Second, the backstories don‘t get worked out (cont)
ravenlee but keep coming up anyway. One of my least favorite tropes shows up, the “oops we made a baby our first time” because Allie‘s ex gaslit her into thinking she‘s infertile. So she never got tested (not even for STDs, I guess, even though her ex was having affairs, and now she doesn‘t care about Blake‘s wild past in that respect either?). Most of the women are caricature bar bimbos but still “good churchgoing women.” 🙄 2y
ravenlee AND THEN…Allie gets falling-down drunk and decides to drive to town, but misses and drives into Blake‘s porch instead, wrecking her truck. Does anybody have a problem with this? No, because she doesn‘t get hurt. Even Blake shrugs it off as no big deal because he‘s done it himself. Apparently it‘s just a thing you do? No consequences but a hangover. 2y
Amiable I just got a headache from the excessive eyeball rolls that this triggered. 2y
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ravenlee Honestly, I spent most of the book thinking it would be better if Allie and Blake and their best friend Deke all got together for a threesome (it did feel like it could go that way a few times). I needed a cowboy romance for a challenge, but I wish I‘d found a different one. Hard pass on this author. 2y
ravenlee @Amiable no joke. I wanted a light, easy read, but this triggered some serious emotion (revulsion is an emotion, right?). 2y
Amiable @ravenlee Revulsion is absolutely an emotion! 2y
GingerAntics This sounds truly terrifying. 2y
lyradora Yikes! :( 2y
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