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Should've Been A Cowboy (2011)

by Vicki Lewis Thompson(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0373796226 (ISBN13: 9780373796229)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harlequin

series

Sons of Chance

review 1: This is an interesting take on how a city slicker from Chicago who worked as a DJ morphs into a Wyoming Cowboy and stays to work on The Last Chance Ranch. Decent plot and backstory on the extended Chase family, as Alex Keller is Josie's brother, and she is married to Jack Chase the eldest son of the Chase brothers. I still love reading about the lush scenery, and the sacred rock there on the Chase Ranch.Alex had come to Wyoming to visit with his sister Josie after his bitter divorce. He is Josie's older brother and very protective of her. While visiting her the towns people or woman take notice of the sandy blonde, tall, and good looking man who wears chinos and sticks out from the Cowboys there. Flashback to "Claimed" when Alex has a run in with Jack who is now his brothe... morer inlaw, picks up a job as the DJ for Gabe's wedding, and has a literal roll in the hay with Gabe's sister inlaw Tyler. Alex chalks this evening up to great sex, but he has never quite forgotten Tyler.One day Tyler comes to the Ranch almost a year later to visit with her sister Morgan, who is pregnant, and she runs into Alex in the kitchen. She soon discovers that Alex has been hired by the Chase family as their public relations officer and is getting ready to set up an event for fund raising. Alex lives at the Chase Ranch, and he now looks and acts like he has always fit in there. Tyler and he start talking and soon they both realize the attraction they shared that one evening is still there, so Tyler agrees to help Alex pull together entertainment and get prepared for the fundraiser that the Chase Ranch is getting ready to have. Before they both know it, they are both all over each other and the flames of passion ignite. Tyler is an activities director for a Cruise ship and is up for a big promotion, but upon resuming her relationship with Alex, she decides that Jackson Hole and the small town of Shashone could use an "Events Planner" and she is seriously thinking of starting a business there, b she also wants to have a real relationship with Alex, but he is still feeling the burn from his divorce, so he is trying to make his time with Tyler only about great sex. After Alex insults Tyler, and Morgan has had the baby, Tyler decides to fly back and leave to go back to her Cruise ship and resume the life that she knows. Shortly after Tyler departs from the Ranch, and seeing how happy his sister is, and the other Chase brothers, along with the addition of a new baby to the Ranch, Alex begins to want what he always has yearned for...a wife, a real home, and children. He decides to throw caution to the wind and he flys off to see Tyler at the ships port before she leaves. He sees her, and they agree she will train someone and meet him in a port of call overseas when the time is right, so that they can be together.It was nice to see Alex really become apart of the Chase Ranch and to find love again. Now he is literally a member of the family and will one day be able to build a home for him and Tyler upon Chase land. Hot Cowboys and sexing with a HEA are always good.
review 2: Every now and then I have to sink into the romance genre to see what is going on. I got this as an advanced reader's copy at a library conference, and had finished my book, so I started in on this one. Yes, the characters are pretty stereotypical, very upstanding, and the setting and circumstances were not that much linked to reality. Lots of sex, too, and of course the happy ending. Don't need to read any more of these for awhile..... less

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