Stars & Stripes (Cut & Run, #6) in Riptide Publishing

Nov 19, 2012 Anna (Bananas) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: m-m, bisexual

2021 Review:
Ahh I loved this so much! It’s interesting how I’m having different reactions to each of the books the 2nd time around. This one was sweet, sexy, and hilarious. It’s their coming out book for me and I loved seeing how their families reacted to them as a couple. It was such a comfort read. I only rated it three stars in 2013 and I’m bumping it up to five now. 🙌🏻
Also, tigers and tiger napping in Texas are much more believable now in 2021 LOL. But I still refuse to watch that TV show.

2 2021 Review:
Ahh I loved this so much! It’s interesting how I’m having different reactions to each of the books the 2nd time around. This one was sweet, sexy, and hilarious. It’s their coming out book for me and I loved seeing how their families reacted to them as a couple. It was such a comfort read. I only rated it three stars in 2013 and I’m bumping it up to five now. 🙌🏻
Also, tigers and tiger napping in Texas are much more believable now in 2021 LOL. But I still refuse to watch that TV show.

2013 Review:
What is with all the cats? It's getting a bit...absurd. First, the mountain lion (I rolled my eyes, but okay, whatever, they do exist in the wild), then Smith & Wesson (alright, they're adorable, yes), but Tigers? Being kidnapped? Tigers that inexplicably love Ty? Um. *deep breath*

I once said I'd enjoy reading about Ty and Zane no matter the plot. I'd like to quietly retract that statement. Because tiger-napping, while cute, utterly strains credibility for me.

What I did enjoy about this book, as always, was Ty Grady and Zane Garrett. They have my heart, eternally. I LOVE THEM. I'd take a bullet for each of 'em, which is why I finished the book.
The coming out theme was welcome and handled well and believably, both with Ty's family in West Virgina and with Zane's family in TX.

More pluses: the humor, the general Texasness of it all, the comfortable private moments, the loving bond between Ty and Zane, the HOT sex scenes, the talk of kids (WHAT? Kids! I like kid-talk? Clearly, I've come down with something), and Zane almost (view spoiler)

There really were a lot of great moments. However, the other main issue I had was the boys' relationship being too...stationary? It needed more conflict, bigger emotions, more reason to cheer or rant. Just, MORE.

This is why I'm hoping for serious angst, even heartbreak, in Touch & Geaux. Please shake up the status quo, Roux, and please, please give us a plot to believe in.

Essentially, T and Z are my fictional gay boyfriends, and I will never abandon them, tigers be damned. But this book was about 50% joy, 50% annoyance for me - I don't like them fractions. ...more

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May 21, 2012 JustJen "Miss Conduct" rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ebook, mm, riptide-pub

Another fabulous chapter in the lives of Ty and Zane. Everything I loved about them in the previous books is, once again, present in this one. The story is fresh, and the level of snarky comments and banter remains consistently high. There are so many great quotes in this book, it seemed I was chuckling out loud just about every other page.

The various family issues were great and each had many wonderful things happeneing. The Chester situation was fabulous. Gotta love the old man. Deuce wins bes ...more

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May 20, 2012 Teagan added it

Finished this last night! I'm not gonna get into it since I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't read it yet... but ERMAHGERD STERS & STRERPS! XD

Fish & Chips is still my favorite in the series but I'm thinking this one is a very close second.

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Aug 24, 2012 Kathryn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: m-m, cops

So, Zane and Ty are like crack. I was a little worried when Madeline Urban retired from this power house of a writing duo, and some of the tone of the series has changed, but definitely not the level of quality. . . Or the hot feeb-y goodness. Like every other book in this series I giggled with happiness when it came out. I'm a hardcore, ambitious, ladder-climbing young executive playing in a boys club of a job. In general, I do not giggle. I got the publishing date wrong and downloaded the book ...more

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Mar 03, 2013 Rachel rated it it was amazing

After reading this series one book after the other I'm having a bit of a book hangover, I'm going to miss Ty and Zane and can't wait for the next instalment in April. ...more

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May 23, 2012 Addicted2M/M rated it it was amazing

Shelves: cute, great-secondary-characters, adventure-travel-roadtrip, suspense-thriller-mystery-crime, funny-witty-humorous, fun, banter-buffet, favorites, pairing-m-m, job-military-former-military

Reread was even better, more highlights. Just getting into the spirit for Ball & Chain.

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Jul 10, 2012 Gwendolyn rated it really liked it

Shelves: law-enforcement, cowboys

This is like a 3.5 and I'm rounding up. Stars & Stripes is a very different book than the first four of the series. (I'd say five but the last book was just weird so I'm skipping it.) I very much liked it but it the guys were way more mushy than normal. I liked the extra romance though. It was time to kick it up a notch.

How many more times can these guys get shot, stabbed, beaten, and broken? lol I was wincing for them.

I'm just wondering if anyone else noticed but Ty and Zane usually take turns ...more

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