Book Blurb:
From Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Emma Slate comes the third book in the Saddles & Spurs Series She’s a virgin who just blew up her entire life.
He’s an ex-con cowboy biker who swore he’d never fall in love… until her.
**Poet’s Story**
OF COURSE. THE RASPY VOICE BELONGED TO A MUSCULAR MAN WEARING A COWBOY HAT.
I swerved off a mountain road into a ditch to avoid a moose. And then a rugged cowboy in a beast of a truck comes to my rescue.
Brooks Keel. The quiet loner at Elk Ridge. The cowboy-biker who looks devastatingly good on a horse and a motorcycle. Ex-con.
As a jobless twenty-three-year-old virgin, I have no business getting involved with a bad boy. But between his hard-won smiles and protective streak, my heart—and my body—hunger for him.
We’re in a chrysalis of paradise and Huckleberry Hill is starting to feel like home... But then the truth about Brooks’ MC past is revealed, and my world explodes. And now I don’t recognize the man I fell in love with. I don’t recognize my baby’s father.
Tropes:
*Dark Star Romance ALC *Cowboy Romance *Virgin FMC *Ex-con MMC *Ex-biker MMC
*MMC with secret past *opposites attract *protective MMC *supportive MMC *bad boy MMC
*surprise pregnancy *Small town romance *found family *He falls first *Bookish FMC
*State Challenge Idaho (repeat) *insta lust/love *spice (spice with red wings) *Age gap
Thoughts:
Poet (FMC) just made a huge life decision she quit her job in NYC and now without a clear direction of what to do next heads to Idaho to visit her friends who have recently returned home and are living their best lives with their own cowboys.
On her way to the hotel she ends up in a ditch... naturally the person who comes to rescue her is hot as sin and dangerous to her heart. Brooks (MMC) has been in town for a bit but has been on the reclusive side since arriving he works on the farm her friends family owns and keeps to himself.
But Poet is surprised to hear from everyone else he's been so stand offish since he isn't with her and even though she knows he's been in prison in the past she doesn't hold that against him... in fact she can't help but to fall for him harder because of the man he is trying to be now.
I enjoyed the first two books in this series and was happy to return to this small town cowboy romance for Poet's story. I loved the found family elements to these books and how we're not only getting to know the 4 friends and the men in their lives but also their extended family and some of the townsfolk.
I loved Poet's grandpa! He seriously needs his own story!!
As Poet settles into her life post job loss and figures out what to do next she finds that everyone in this small community is willing to help her reach her goals and maybe the dream she felt was just out of reach will be reachable after all.
The closer she gets to Brooks the more she realizes that maybe she doesn't know him as well as she thought she did... and can she live with that? Especially now that she has discovered that she is with child.
After an argument Poet goes off on her own and ends up in trouble but now it's not just her own life she is risking... she has to hold on for her baby and hope that she'll be found, during this time having plenty of time to think she realizes that if Brooks can put the past in the past she should as well he has accepted her flaws and she knows now that if given the chance she can love Brooks flaws and all too... Brooks please find your girl!
I listened to this as an ALC and the cast did a beautiful job bringing this story to life!
This was a cute addition to the series but did feel kind of similar (ish) to the first two books in the way that it was insta love with a surprise pregnancy... I am looking forward to the next book in the series but I'm at this point expecting the 4th book will go the same way.
If you like a cozy small town, found family, cowboy romance add this one to your tbr but I would recommend reading them in order as other characters from the first 2 books are a big part of this book as well.
Some things that I wasn't a huge fan of for this book:
*Poet just arrived in town and Brooks who just met this woman offers her money to fix her rental car... what? $2,000 is a lot of money and he just gives it over
*Poet and Brooks relationship is on the super fast forward setting --> like skipping right over everything goes straight to moving in together and love, then Poet hears some information that she didn't know about Brooks and is upset about it that she didn't know this about him... of course you didn't girl, you just met him 5 minutes ago!
*Poet had been a virgin until meeting Brooks and not on birth control believed that a pregnancy couldn't possibly occur because it was her time of the month
*Poet wants to make it on her own but didn't do anything to find a job while she was working on her idea to open her own business... Brooks continued to pay for everything including a new car. Poet is young, inexperienced with owning her own business and has no savings, it's good to have dreams but you gotta pay the bills too... I do wish I had people in my life like Poet has to help financially.
*Brooks had been with Poet like 3 days and was giving a spare key to her apartment to her friends without telling her, placed a tracking app on her and was calling her friends/family and telling them her business without talking to her first.
*even though the first two books in the series were also insta lust/love the stories just felt a bit more formed, this one felt more rushed and because of that Poet and Brooks didn't really fully click for me as a couple.
Have you read this one? what did you think?
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