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Una Prateria Straniera (2013)

by Andrew Grey(Favorite Author)

4.02 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1613727798 (ISBN13: 9781613727799)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press

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review 1: 2,5 stars rounded up. (Yes, I'm so generous.)In this book we have likeable main characters with some issues for their past. It's a tale about solving those issues and be happy with being yourself. And, of course, together - as a couple.The story itself is rather simple, one of those safe reads. Nothing outstanding, but enjoyable enough. If only it could be more fluent and smooth...
review 2: I read this a few weeks ago but didn’t have a chance to post. While in general the story is okay and I found that Steve’s villainous father was a bit much, one thing pushed this into the “worthy of flagging on the blog” range. It was Wilson. Wilson is a popular country music star who’s never been near a horse in his life. His best friend is his manager and VERY cl... moreosely manages his life, making sure he’s seen in the right places, with the right people and certainly not with the WRONG people (aka any men). Wilson has done this for so long it’s kind of second nature, but his creativity well has run dry, and on a whim he buys an old farm in Wyoming where he hopes to get his music mojo back.I have run into a few stories in the past where the best friend is uber-pushy and more concerned with money and appearance than their friend’s well-being (perhaps not consciously so – but none-the-less) and the main character doesn’t want to hurt his friend’s feelings so just goes along with it because “person X was always there for them when no one else was” or some such bull. I was waiting for it, bracing to want to slap Wilson when … boom, he stood up for himself, told his friend the free train stops now, that he had been living with Wilson but was on his own, Wilson was selling his crap, moving out and the friend could deal or not, not his problem. *stands up and cheers wildly for Wilson* He grabbed his Hispanic housekeeper and her kid and heads for the country.Of course there is Steve who had been offered a job by the previous owners, but despite his best friends warnings about gold diggers, Wilson hires him on to help run the ranch since he’s clueless, and before long they’re training horses and things are going well and he’s even run into the local gay posse (from the previous books). He’s still kind of keeping a low profile on the gay thing and slightly freaked, but when a pushy female neighbor gets her nose out of joint, all comes out and Wilson takes a chance to stand up for himself. Yes, Steve’s father tries to kidnap him and there’s a cult who want Steve to be their leader now, and that part was a bit OTT but every time Wilson got in his friend’s face and told him to shut up, he was the boss and this was the way it was, I swooned a little.See how easy it is to please me? Just don’t have a door mat for a lead character and I’m good with it all. Fans of the series will enjoy seeing the whole gang and the Wally’s big cats at the other farm, but I thought I just had to point out a book that let the man stand up for himself and not get bogged down into that “because they’re your friend it means letting them run your life forever” trap which drives me bonkers. less

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