"My name is Munroe Davies and this is the story of how I found Home"

This story is beautifully and poignantly narrated by Roe - he isn't well educated, but he's smart and doesn't need fancy words to illustrate his emotions and feelings, he's just straight forward and genuine, with no corruption or insincerity. There is only one language for Roe and it is simple honesty in black or white - no grey areas.... his words just broke my heart and made me smile at the innocence of the rendition of his More...

I loved Roe and Travis! Roe had such a low self-esteem because of the way his family treated him when they found out he was gay. It took him a very long time to get past that. Travis was strong but wary of loving again. These two made a great team, and I'm glad Travis stuck by him the entire time. The story takes place over several years which I also enjoyed. I loved Haley, Roe's best friend. She was the first true friend he had, and she was everything he needed.

The sex was off the chart steamy! More...

I've read Heidi Cullihan's other books Special Deliveryand Double Blind those were pretty good...this book was great. I usually give a book five starts if I'm bawling like a three month old at the end...and this one had me there.

I absolutely loved it...what a great story.

In this book, Roe tell us the story of how he found a home in Nowhere Ranch. At the age of twenty Roe's family discovered he was gay and basically ran him out of this home, he ended up in a bad situation and went to prison. Once More...

So good I'm speechless. Touching, sweet, sexy read with wonderful, real, flawed and beautiful characters. I had huge expectations and Heidi more than fulfilled them.

^^NOWHERE RANCH IS FREAKING AWESOME!!^^
4.5

For all that is sweet and holy, I was not expecting Nowhere Ranch to be so awesmazing. I imagined cowboys, hay lifting, and all that fun stuff, but it’s what our main characters did behind closed doors that make this book shine. I gotta tell you folks my pants abandoned ship 25 pages into the book and did not return. I have ceased to go looking for them. Can I get a ‘hawt, hawt’, and a ‘bloody fucking shit’ because you will be saying both those phrases More...

01/18/13: Revised rating after a couple of years of reading m/m: from 5 to 4.


I liked Roe's voice. I found myself not reading, but listening to him, with my head cocked to one side, hanging to his words like a rope that could keep me safe, because this story is so intense at times that I felt as if Roe's pain was mine.

What I really appreciated in the relationship between the main characters is that they are very practical. Roe is not too keen on the relationship thing with Travis, but he doesn't More...

When I started this book I didn't know what to expect. I certainly didn't expect heartbreaking (and warming) story about bigotry, hate, shame, friendship, finding home and love. The story of a lost man who was too afraid and ashamed of his own life to let himself find love and home really sucked me in and brought me to my knees.

This story really broke my heart at times and it made me cry. It made me feel warm and giddy and all hot and bothered. It made me feel a rollercoaster of feelings while I More...

Thank you Heidi! Oh yeah, I picked the right book to read...I knew it was a five star read for me into the first few pages.

"Now that I'd made the decision to give in to Loving, I didn't see any reason not to sin as big as I liked. I mean, if you're gonna steal a chicken, eat the whole damn thing."

If there were more stars, this book would get them all! Ate it up like a warm slice of homemade apple pie. Yummmm. Don't know why it took me so long to read this. But it came right on time.

This story has everything I love - difficult characters, a rocky romance, an actual storyline, super hot alternative sex (in this case - fisting) and HEA!

25 year-old Monroe Davis is driven away from home by his homophobic religious family. After some time in jail and working on various ranches, he ends up on Nowhere Ranch where he meets the owner, 40 year old Travis Loving. Travis has his own skeletons, but what is immediately obvious to them both is that they are sexually compatible….they both More...

I cried. I never cry. What a fantastic book. Full of amazing men and women who are just about the best folks I've ever read about. I'm sure others have done fantastic reviews and waxed poetic about the characters, the setting, the way everything flows so smoothly - the way the people in this book care for each other. And the ending. Does it get any better than that? I cannot believe I waited so long to read it. Next time I do that y'all slap me o.k.???

4.5 stars These books keep sneaking up on me! Watching Roe's progression and maturing and growing was amazing. I liked the way their relationship progressed in general, where they both started out really wanting just simple sex but you just can't help how you grow to love someone over time. All of Roe's issues were done well and revealed slowly over time so he didn't just seem like a whiny, insecure commit-a-phobe the whole time. I though I was going to give this a slightly lower rating because More...

2.5 stars but felt nice and rounded it to 3. DNF at 47%.

I'm done with this book. Not my cup of tea. Not only am I really not into BDSM a whole lot, but I'm definitely not interested in people referring to their partners as animals over and over.

Sometimes a girl just needs to read some angsty, kinky manlove. Cullinan never disappoints me. Her characters are just angsty enough and definitely kinky enough to hold my attention.

I'm a little torn on this book. I'll admit I have a hard time with reading in the first person and only ever getting Roe's POV. I would have loved to have read Travis POV. Regardless, it was a very emotional story and I very much enjoyed it. Roe, as in many books of this type, has been demonized by his family for being gay and he runs. And he keeps running in hopes of never getting attached because really if your family hates you then how could anyone else love you. Roe ends up at Nowhere Ranch More...

I pretty much got NOWHERE in this book therefore I can not place stars on it and I will NOT grade this down!

" My issues~
I hate fisting.
I hate pony play & dog barking crap.
I hate call me boy shit.
I hate desprate "let me go out and find sombody to fuck, shit.

Soooo why did I give this a try~ I freaking love this writer she is gifted~and I can deal with a few fetsh's but this book has so freaking many...bottom line NFM~"

Yes, I would recommend for people who really like fetsh~But as for me...th More...

So damn sweet!
This one really blew me away. The characters really spoke to me and seemed realistic. Not once did any of it scream of angst to me, which is an amazing achievement because I've read so much and have become rather jaded towards the hurt/comfort genre. But hot damn! This one was just wonderful.

I was a little bothered at first about the rough play and the psuedo-but-not-quite-BDSM (because I have come to take offense at misportrayed BDSM or contrived usage of it even though it's defin More...

I was blown away by the writing in this book. I don't always like one POV in this genre, it can make the story stilted, one sided and less passionate. Recently I have read 3 books that have been 1 person's POV that have been crackers, and this is one of them. Roe's POV makes you really live, breathe and feel this story.

There are some great reviews here already but I wish to add my thoughts and feelings as well.

I truly loved the two main characters Monroe Davis (Roe), and Travis Loving. It helps More...

Monroe “Roe” Davis loves his home in Algona, Iowa. He’s been a normal Iowa farmer’s boy – okay, he’s not the brightest bulb in the lamp as his cousin Kayla never fails to lovingly point out tho him since he has problems at school, but he’s hard working and good with sheep – until the day his parents found his stash of gay porn. After that day, nothing is ever the same. At some point, Roe can’t take all the preaching and trying to “heal” him with prayer anymore and leaves, first his parents’ farm More...

This was a very moving and heart warming story. It was also a very complex one. It dealt with a lot of issues, like: overcoming a low self esteem to see one's true worth and value, and therefore being able to love yourself enough to love another. It also deals with bigots and unaccepting family and finding and making one's own loving family. That's the sweet and endearing side of the story. It's also a BDSM story, and it's not the "hold em' down and smack their butt and order em' around" kind. T More...

Well, I was really looking at giving this book three stars. It was good, but not great. The beginning read like a listing of events and sexual acts, maybe even the first half to two-thirds. I wasn't getting into the characters terribly well. I was curious about them but I didn't HAVE to know about them. It didn't read slowly or difficultly, but I just wasn't engaged.

However, what bumps this up to four stars is the end. I loved it. I didn't expect it. And I really couldn't have asked for more. It More...

I put off reading this one for a while. I just have read too many cowboy stories I didn't like so I hesitated. Mistake! I really enjoyed the characters. You get the whole story from Roe's perspective but the characters all become very vivid. I have a hard time with first person and really getting any sort of grasp on other characters. I am always surprised when I've read a book that does a wonderful job at filling in the other characters.

There are a lot of different elements covered in this boo More...

4 stars for the story in the last half. 1 or 2 stars for brutal unpleasant sex in the first half. It’s BDSM.

I’ve read some BDSM that was hot, but here it was too rough for me. I was shaking my head at hugeness going up the rear door - ugh. Other hurtful activities made me cringe. There is tying up, pinching, and whipping/hitting. Monroe wants to hurt during sex. He likes being treated as if he were a dog or other animal. I considered not finishing the book, but made myself go a little more. To m More...

Strong characterization and an honest portrayal of BDSM

Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.

Rating: 8/10

PROS:
- It takes some convincing for me to really get into a story told in first person, but this story convinced me pretty early on. Roe, the narrator, is dry and matter-of-fact, and when he prefaces certain revelations with phrases like, “You probably saw this coming, but…” I was hard-pressed not to like him. I found some of his comments very funny because h More...

Wow, this book was... intense. I loved Roe! I appreciated that he wasn't written with the full cowboy dialect (caint, ridin', etc.) but I still heard him that way in my head, and it made him so fun to listen to as the narrator--even when the things he was telling me were hard to hear.

I also loved Travis, which I wasn't sure I was going to. I don't always like big age gaps, but theirs totally worked. I loved how human Travis was: how obviously delighted he was to have found Roe, how he knew his o More...

Snagged because it won a whole bunch of awards last year, and I'm in that mood. Having read it, I'm kind of going "…oh," because apparently a lot of people loved this, I didn't, and that's always a frustrating datapoint when you're dipping a toe into a genre.

I don't actually want to talk about this book qua book much, except to say that a lot of you probably will really like it (ranching, horses, families-of-choice, kinky sex including ponyplay), and also for the subset of you who want to know t More...

I've enjoyed other Heidi Cullinan books, Special Delivery and Double Blind, which had me craving more. Nowhere Ranch seemed the logical next choice.

I won't rehash the story, that's been done. I will say there were parts that I skipped - the discussion of abortion seemed political to me, something I don't like to see in stories.

Honestly, I could have lived without Haley and had Roe even more focused on Travis, but that's me. She was sweet and was a true friend. She appeared too much I guess. Her More...

I have to give credit to this novel, it made me change idea in the span of less than 150 pages and I think that is a record.

It’s probably no news to read my ramblings that it’s not that I care so much for sex, it doesn’t bother me but it’s not really what I’m searching in a book. Give you a totally unrelated example? I once was looking at a movie, and there were two pretty guys “having fun” (do you know what I mean right?) on the floor, and I was fixated with the glass of wine on the nearby side More...

When I started reading this, it was with mixed feelings. I wasn't sure how much I'd like it. However, by the end, I could not stop reading and even stayed up until the wee hours of the morning to finish.

There are a number of very detailed reviews out there for this book, so I'll just say a few things: I loved this story because it showed how someone even as messed up as Roe can be healed with the right support and guidance (we find out he thinks of himself and everything he does as shit, due to More...

After his family turned their back on him for being gay, Roe left his family’s farm and learned how to survive without creating strong connections or roots. That was until he arrived at the Nowhere Ranch. When Roe needed a break and needed sexual release, he drove to the nearest gay bar – three hours away, to find the owner of the ranch he’s working on, there too. Relationships are not his thing, so getting involved with his boss is a very bad idea, especially since he’s starting to fall in love More...

10 stars.
I am a big fan of Special Delivery and I enjoyed Double Blind pretty well but this book was excellent and engaging. All three books have characterization at their heart and that is what keeps the pages turning. I've just finished the book, and maybe I'll come back later and review on style or plot or other technical aspects.

Now, I can just write about how much I loved the characters; how very much I loved Roe and wanted a HEA for him.

The sex in this book won't be for everyone. It's very More...