Dreamspinner Press
Novel: 228pgs
2.5 Pants Off
Blurb: One Aussie. One Texan. One baby. One hell of a fight.
When his sister and her husband are killed in an accident, Aussie cattle station owner Lachlan McCoughney rushes to Texas to rescue their infant daughter, Chloe. He expects to find his niece living in squalor with the Sheffields, a rodeo family.
Instead, Lachlan finds Holden Sheffield, a salt-of-the-earth cowboy running a huge business operation. They want to explore their mutual attraction despite the many problems thrown their way, and together, they must find a way to give Chloe a new family and find a love that spans thousands of acres and two continents.
Review
SO MUCH GRAVY NOT ENOUGH BISCUITS
In all the years I’ve been reading m/m books and all the years B.A Tortuga has been writing m/m this is my very first time reading the author.
If “Trial by Fire” is the usual fare can I honestly say that I haven’t t
been missing much or is it a case that I might have been missing all
too much. This book had melodrama coming out of its wazoo. Daytime soap
opera type shiiiii….
Lachlan has been searching for his sister for many years, and when he finally gets a call that she’s been located,
but it comes with news that he wasn’t really expecting. His sister has
perished in a plane crash along with her husband leaving behind a
daughter, a niece he wants to meet and become an uncle to. That means
navigating the family his sister married into, one thing is for damn sure he’ll leaving the heart of Texas with his niece.
What
then transpires is drama of epic intents. My head was reeling with the
amount of crazy that was going down. This book had the plane crash, a
baby-napping for ransom for 10 million dollars (cue Dr Evil finger to the mouth), and straight up all out shooting. All this went down in the first 60% of the book.
Then there is Lachlan and Holden. Holden being the legal guardian of the little girl and twin brother of the husband to his sister 😒.
They be hating each other but they also be loving each other, because
nothing brings two people closer together than a kidnapping. It’s a
dramatic mess of epic proportions and kept reading for the sole purpose
of how much more ridiculous can it get. Turmoil is thrown in from both
Lachlan and Holden’s parents who can’t seem to compromise on how the
baby should be raised, while also dealing with the budding relationship
of love between Holden and Lachlan. Their love is fast like a mustang in
the wind.
Overall, this was a very harlequinesque
type read with crazy thrown in for plot device while offering a very
mediocre story. There was a lot somethings without any actual answers to
most of it. I found the writing alright but I couldn’t take anything
seriously, the dialogue was over the top and more comedic than
entertaining. Cowboys speak is a hell of thing!!
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