Publisher: St.
Martin’s Press
Published: November 1, 2016
ISBN: 978-1250063977
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Romantic Comedy
Format: Print
Obtained via: Publisher
FOUR-1/2 HEARTS
Caught in the middle of the decades old Tucker / Sawyer divide veterinarian
Jenna Tucker isn’t one to just give up and sulk. When she loses a plumb spot in
the local vet practice due to no other reason than her being a Tucker she picks
herself and sets about establishing her own equine center. With her sisters Callie and Brandy married to
the men of their dreams…who just happen to be Sawyers, Jenna is the only one
still living at the family home. It wasn’t the happies of homes after their
parents died. Their grandfather, James
Harlin, wasn’t the most loving of men.
More interested in his moonshine he gave them a roof over their head and
that was that. Now, with him gone and a
new business on her horizon Jenna is determined to change her image and wild
child ways. To do that she’s stopped her
one night stands with the “bad boys” and gone on date after date with your
basic “nice” guys. They do nothing for
her. That’s okay because she doesn’t,
after all, really want a beau. And the
last person she wants to be falling for is one of the dreaded Sawyers.
Hunter DeMassi is a Sawyer by way of his mother’s people. Like Jenna he is trying to leave his bad boy
image behind. His parents never let him
forget that he wasn’t the favorite, that it was his brother who was their
shining star. Even running for and
winning the election for Sheriff three times he still doesn’t measure up to
what his parents want. They still see
him as the rodeo bum who just was never going to measure up. And really, the last person he needs in his
life is Jenna Tucker – a wild child, Tucker.
But sometimes our hearts don’t quite listen to our heads, even
when our heads tell us it’s lust, not love.
I’ve been enjoying Kimberly Raye’s Rebel Moonshine series starting
with Texas Thunder followed by Red Hot Texas Nights. While the first two books were entertaining
with some totally fun characters, in book three, TEMPTING TEXAS Raye outdoes
herself. She tells a good story, but in
this one the author’s innate sense of humor and flair for comedy while giving readers
a toe curling romance comes through. The
transition from humor to romance is smooth and adds so much to the story.
Raye also does a fabulous job taking the reader into the
parallels between Jenna and Hunter’s lives and how they each, in their own way
and at the same time, together come to terms with their pasts.
I did have one small problem with the book and it could have
been because it was an ARC. Towards the
end of the book there were a few chapters with a Kim Bowman. They didn’t seem to have any relationship to
the rest of the book and those few chapters, when they appeared, jarred me out
of the story. If it was meant as a lead
in to book 4 it didn’t work for me. Each
time she showed up I wondered if maybe the publisher had somehow gotten two
books mixed up with each other.
Each book in the series is a stand alone and you do not have to
have read one to enjoy the others.
TEMPTING TEXAS is, as I said, the best and you do not want to miss
it.
This is an objective review and not an endorsement of
this book.
