Cowgirls Don't Cry (Rough Riders, #10) in Lorelei James

May 12, 2013 Kate rated it really liked it

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This was a difficult book to rate.
It was the best novel/best written and maybe sweetest/most believable romance of the series. I really loved Jessie's character/development and was happy that the couple's sexual interaction wasn't forced into Lorelei James' typical format-- it felt much more naturalistic than in some of the other later books where the sexual relationship feels a bit rinse-repeat/copy-paste from earlier books.

Probably in the grand scheme of things I would give this book a 3.5 or This was a difficult book to rate.
It was the best novel/best written and maybe sweetest/most believable romance of the series. I really loved Jessie's character/development and was happy that the couple's sexual interaction wasn't forced into Lorelei James' typical format-- it felt much more naturalistic than in some of the other later books where the sexual relationship feels a bit rinse-repeat/copy-paste from earlier books.

Probably in the grand scheme of things I would give this book a 3.5 or 4 but on my Lorelei James/Rough Riders scale it is definitely a 5. I didn't skip ANYTHING (unlike every other book in the series besides Long Hard Ride and Raising Kane), the world-building/secondary characters introduction/background was well integrated, the romance was believable/hot, etc. Loved Brandt and Jessie's characters/development/arcs.

EDITED TO ADD
I didn't think the prologue was out of character AT ALL, although a bit tough to read. Or maybe, not our of character at all for Jessie (view spoiler), perhaps somewhat out of character for Brandt but again we see enough of his "animal" side and hear about his 3 years of behind Wildman McKay to the max, and he is hurt/angry/rejected by Jessie-- so I bought it. Also him wanting to erase that visual memory from his mind-- although the execution of the later blow job scene was a bit ham-handed... that was the most out-of-character aspect of the whole thing to me. but I felt like it worked.

The 4 days towards the end was weird and unnecessary/unexplained.
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Jun 03, 2012 Shannon rated it liked it

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This is probably more of a 3.5 or 3.75 for me. It has more to do with my opinion of Jessie - I just don't like her, even though I did like her a little more by the end of the book... And then coming off the previous books, it just hadn't met that high standard I've come accustomed to. Yeah, there was drama, yeah, hot sex, but I just wasn't into it... ...more

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