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A Wild Ride (2013)

by Andrew Grey(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1623804655 (ISBN13: 9781623804657)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press

series

The Bullriders

review 1: A wild ride is another great book by Andrew Grey. This is based on Dante Rivers, bull rider and almost champion. Also about Ryan Abbott , financial advisor. Dante rode and almost won. He decides to go to a bar , He meets Ryan and had a great night but Dante's fears made him walk away. Ryan is call to a ranch for help with financial services and meets Hy who happens to be Dante's grandfather. Things don't go so good in that encounter , but encourage by a good friend, Jacky, Ryan decides to get close to Dante but with another approach, to make things work. Dante and Ryan start to be together ... Ryan is attack. Feelings come to the surface, but with sacrifices and love they made it.
review 2: I confess I usually read Andrew Grey as occasional relief or change fro... morem the longer angstfests I most often enjoy. I find Grey light and fluffy; a good read at the beach or to curl up in bed with when I'm feeling under the weather. Nothing disparaging meant by that, as I have found his writing until now to be competent, with interesting characters and engaging story lines.I am not certain where this novel went wrong, at least for me. Out of the two main characters, I did like Dante, the bull rider. The affection and care he showed toward Hyram, his Gramps, was lovely to read, although after being together for so many years one would think they could communicate a little better. Many time throughout the novel it is stressed that as a family they don't speak what they feel, but there were way too many times I wanted to clip either or both about the ears to jar some sense into them. I also thought that at nearly a foot shorter than Ryan, Dante must be the tiniest bull rider in the history of the PBR organization, but I did some research and nope, the average PBR bull rider is roughly five feet six inches. Pretty short stuff!The other main character is Ryan, a stockbroker who meets Dante in a bar after the final bull riding event of the year and takes him to his hotel for the obligatory night of sex. I found Ryan to be a difficult character to like. He had great points (he seemed loyal to his friends, he treated Dante's Gramps really well, and he was nothing but supportive of Dante's riding), but for me he still came across a little cold and emotionless.My biggest complaint with the novel was the feeling it was slapped together in a hurry with no thought of continuity. At one point Dante and Ryan are in the barn and the horses become agitated as they pick up on Dante's mood, while in one of the next scenes Dante is bringing the horses into the barn from a corral outside. (They could not have been extra horses as they only owned four). That may be minor, but to me it shows careless writing, or sloppy editing.Things happen in the novel that seem important at the time, yet are never mentioned again. Ryan finds Dante's belt after their first tryst and puts it in his own suitcase - never mentioned again. Ryan is originally hired by Hyram to check through a box of old papers and certificates to see if there is anything of value in them. He finds one certificate that seems different than the other (worthless) ones. Much later in the novel Dante asks Ryan if he found anything worthwhile in Hyram's papers, to which he replies yes, but Dante will have to discuss it with his grandfather. Since one of the major plot points is the concern over money, the reader would think that here is the answer to the problem, but the issue of the old box of papers is never mentioned again. Ever!Minor characters are brought into the novel as cameos; except for one or two they do nothing to further the plot, and are never heard from again. Ryan's parents visit him in hospital, although I don't think prior to that we were even aware he had parents. Maddox, a self-centred, egotistical bull rider, could have been great competition for Dante as a continuing plot point, but we see him during one scene at the start of the novel and he is barely mentioned at the end. Almost one entire chapter is devoted to Ryan and Dante visiting a rancher who raises bulls so Dante can ride and grade the bulls for the rodeo circuit. He rides two bulls and that's it. I have no idea why this scene is even included; it does nothing to further the plot, and we don't see any of the characters again. Not even Widowmaker, the rank bull I expected to see at the rodeo finals at the end of the novel. I thought with a lot more care this had the potential to be a good story, but I felt plot and character development were sacrificed to a 'must hurry this along to meet a publishing deadline' syndrome. I hope this doesn't happen with the next book in the series. less

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