The trope was really great and I was super excited for it, but it fell really flat, honestly.
I didn't care for the characters too much.
Blaine is a cool guy, but that's pretty much it. Hearing about Blaine's responsibilities as a rancher and the work he does was fun! The author writes in that rancher work well; she did her research!
The rest of the book is "meh".. nothing special. We don't see Blaine and Sienna really fall in love. They have a couple of good scenes (moments + conversations together), but there isn't enough romance in the story at all.
Their few conversations here & there the few times they were alone were good!
Not enough to make the book good, though.
Also, I found annoying how sienna was stretching her self so thin to care for everybody else (her sister, her sister's husband, & her niece and nephew) but she always out herself LAST..... for the entire time! 😔 HOWEVER: that made the story realistic I suppose, so that's good. It's very believable especially because she's pregnant and her emotions and hormones are heightened, causing her to possibly stress out more and not be great at prioritizing her life.
What I DON'T understand is why she wrote off Blaine just to go drive back to her sister near the end of the book & told Blaine that she can't come back, etc. They don't live that far apart, and she could date him easily. Just because her sister needed her back right then doesn't mean that she can never be with Blaine! 😂
Okay but we needed several tropes!! We needed the trope where Blaine rides horse with Sienna (which would be a cute scene 'cause she's pregnant), plus the trope where, while at the fair, people think theyre a couple and are having a baby together!!!! That would cause them both to be embarrassed and also come to realize that they could work as a family and that they love each other.
This author coulda done better. 🤷🏻♂️
I was a little bit annoyed with the whole side story of Blaine having to care for his friend's pregnant dog and raise her puppies. Why keep breeding the same dog?!?! This is her THIRD PREGNANCY!!! They kept saying that she could breed again next summer?… What the hell give her a break. Like, for the rest of the dog's life!!! 😖🤬😩😔💀
Anyways, like always there was a good ending, but this book simply wasn't fun, deep, or enjoyable. I'll keep it in my collection of Love Inspired books, but I won't read it again.