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Cattle Valley #7-8
Cattle Valley Vol. 4
"Love comes in all shapes and sizes and always when you least expect it."
Bad Boy Cowboy
When Logan Miller pulls up to the EZ Does-It ranch atop a gleaming black Harley, bearing tattoos and killer green eyes, Jax Brolin knows he's in trouble. How can this be the same skinny kid who used to play with his baby brother?Until Logan reunited with his best friend's big brother, he'd thought the best thing to have between his legs was a motorcycle, followed closely by a horse.The town may classify Logan as a bad boy, but all he wants is to be is a good man for Jax and he'll do anything to get the man's attention.
The Sound of White
Finally healed after a beating that almost took his life, the last thing Richard Johnson needs is to be attracted to Chad Neal. Despite his smaller stature, Chad Neal needs to be in charge, both in the bedroom and out.Collin Zeffer, longs for the kind of relationship he sees his friends have, but who would want someone as boring as him? Hiding his face from the world, Abe Cross is content to live out his life alone.When an unexpected blizzard blankets Cattle Valley, the lives of these four men will change forever.
Bad Boy Cowboy
When Logan Miller pulls up to the EZ Does-It ranch atop a gleaming black Harley, bearing tattoos and killer green eyes, Jax Brolin knows he's in trouble. How can this be the same skinny kid who used to play with his baby brother?Until Logan reunited with his best friend's big brother, he'd thought the best thing to have between his legs was a motorcycle, followed closely by a horse.The town may classify Logan as a bad boy, but all he wants is to be is a good man for Jax and he'll do anything to get the man's attention.
The Sound of White
Finally healed after a beating that almost took his life, the last thing Richard Johnson needs is to be attracted to Chad Neal. Despite his smaller stature, Chad Neal needs to be in charge, both in the bedroom and out.Collin Zeffer, longs for the kind of relationship he sees his friends have, but who would want someone as boring as him? Hiding his face from the world, Abe Cross is content to live out his life alone.When an unexpected blizzard blankets Cattle Valley, the lives of these four men will change forever.
262 pages, Paperback
First published June 25, 2009
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Carol Lynne
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November 1, 2012
Disappointing compared to earlier Cattle Valley books
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.
Rating: 6/10
PROS:
- The characters are sweet. This is true of every book I’ve read by Lynne: the good guys are on the perfect side.
- There’s more drama in this volume than in the previous volumes, which makes it a little more interesting. The two guys in the first novella have a shakier relationship than most of the CV romances so far (which does get a LITTLE tiresome), and the second novella has a decent enough mystery, although it’s resolved pretty quickly and doesn’t have much of a climax.
- As always, the reappearance of characters from earlier stories in the series is fun, and Lynne sets up several new romances that will undoubtedly have their own stories in the future.
CONS:
- The romances in this volume are more melodramatic than those in previous volumes. The guys fight and then make up and then fight and then make up. Real couples do that sort of thing, too, but these stories don’t do a terribly good job of showing the transitions between phases. Everything’s great and then BANG, they’re arguing. Or they’re both angry/hurt and then BANG, all is forgiven and they’re loving on each other.
- There’s a little bit of examination into the characters’ thoughts, but I almost always felt like it wasn’t enough. Just when Lynne starts really exploring a character’s feelings, she moves on.
- One of the relationships in the second book is fairly light BDSM. I don’t have a problem at all with BDSM--whether it’s heavy or light, bedroom-only or lifestyle, focused on pain or on something simpler like bondage, etc. I just didn’t feel that the characters in this story were real players. It felt a little like Lynne was writing a BDSM relationship without very much true knowledge of the scene.
- The book has quite a few inconsistencies that could have been fixed by better editing. For example, this occurs in the first novella: “‘You mind if I take one of the ranch trucks?’ Logan tipped his hat and left.” Jax then replies as though Logan is still there. Then there’s this in the second novella: “[Chad] liked a challenging partner, one who wouldn’t back down from an argument.” And then a couple of chapters later: “It would never work between them if he had to argue with his submissive.”
Overall comments: Other people have likened this series to a soap opera, and I never thought that was an entirely accurate comparison. I do now that I’ve read this installment, though: the characters nitpick at each other, they interact very dramatically (and sometimes, shallowly), and the stories (especially the second one) flit about from one character to another. I might quit reading the series if the next volume is similar to this one; I found it a bit tedious after a while.
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.
Rating: 6/10
PROS:
- The characters are sweet. This is true of every book I’ve read by Lynne: the good guys are on the perfect side.
- There’s more drama in this volume than in the previous volumes, which makes it a little more interesting. The two guys in the first novella have a shakier relationship than most of the CV romances so far (which does get a LITTLE tiresome), and the second novella has a decent enough mystery, although it’s resolved pretty quickly and doesn’t have much of a climax.
- As always, the reappearance of characters from earlier stories in the series is fun, and Lynne sets up several new romances that will undoubtedly have their own stories in the future.
CONS:
- The romances in this volume are more melodramatic than those in previous volumes. The guys fight and then make up and then fight and then make up. Real couples do that sort of thing, too, but these stories don’t do a terribly good job of showing the transitions between phases. Everything’s great and then BANG, they’re arguing. Or they’re both angry/hurt and then BANG, all is forgiven and they’re loving on each other.
- There’s a little bit of examination into the characters’ thoughts, but I almost always felt like it wasn’t enough. Just when Lynne starts really exploring a character’s feelings, she moves on.
- One of the relationships in the second book is fairly light BDSM. I don’t have a problem at all with BDSM--whether it’s heavy or light, bedroom-only or lifestyle, focused on pain or on something simpler like bondage, etc. I just didn’t feel that the characters in this story were real players. It felt a little like Lynne was writing a BDSM relationship without very much true knowledge of the scene.
- The book has quite a few inconsistencies that could have been fixed by better editing. For example, this occurs in the first novella: “‘You mind if I take one of the ranch trucks?’ Logan tipped his hat and left.” Jax then replies as though Logan is still there. Then there’s this in the second novella: “[Chad] liked a challenging partner, one who wouldn’t back down from an argument.” And then a couple of chapters later: “It would never work between them if he had to argue with his submissive.”
Overall comments: Other people have likened this series to a soap opera, and I never thought that was an entirely accurate comparison. I do now that I’ve read this installment, though: the characters nitpick at each other, they interact very dramatically (and sometimes, shallowly), and the stories (especially the second one) flit about from one character to another. I might quit reading the series if the next volume is similar to this one; I found it a bit tedious after a while.
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