Review: The Buckhorn Legacy by Lori Foster

The Buckhorn Legacy
Series: Buckhorn Brothers #5
Author: Lori Foster

SUMMARY
(From Goodreads)

Emma Clark is back in Buckhorn. Once she was the girl with too much makeup and a bad reputation—and she tried everything she could to get Casey Hudson into bed. He was the cutest guy in town, and the only one who seemed to really care about her.As a hot-blooded teen it was hard for Casey to resist Emma. Now, eight years later, it's impossible. But Emma is doing her best to shut him out—and Casey needs to convince her that the attraction that burns between them isn't just leftover teenage lust, but his real love for a real woman…

MY THOUGHTS

The Buckhorn Legacy is the fifth book in the Buckhorn Brothers series by author Lori Foster.  The main characters featured are Casey Hudson and Emma Clark.

Casey. Oh sweet and sexy Casey.  I have been dying to get to your book in my pile and I finally got to read about you.  I loved the previous books in this series, but Casey's book was the one I was dying to read.  There was just something about that character that drew me in and kept hold of me up until the last page.  Casey is Sawyer's son.  He is also the one that had this reader drooling in anticipation.  Emma was considered the town tramp even though she was young.

Fast forward eight years and and Emma has returned after running away at a young age.  Casey always wondered what happened to her, but he never knew.  In The Buckhorn Legacy we find out what happened and read about the chemistry between the two.  In this book we also get to see the true depth of Casey's heart and feelings.

This was a wonderful conclusion to a great series. I am sad to see it end, but the best certainly came last.  While it is not necessary to read the previous books in the series, I highly recommend that you do to get the full picture of the family dynamics and Casey.

MY RATING

Outstanding book that will stay on my bookshelf for rereading!

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Review: All He Ever Needed by Shannon Stacey

All He Ever Needed
Series: Kowalski Family #4
Author: Shannon Stacey

SUMMARY
(From Goodreads)


He won't stay put for a woman, and she won't chase after any man.Mitch Kowalski lives out of a suitcase—and he likes it that way.

Traveling for work has the added bonus of scaring off women who would otherwise try to tie him down. But when he's called home to help with the family lodge, he's intrigued by the new girl in town and her insistence that she doesn't need a man. If there's one thing Mitch can't resist, it's a challenge.

After a nomadic childhood, Paige Sullivan is finally putting down roots. Determined to stand on her own two feet, she lives by the motto "Men are a luxury, not a necessity." But when Mr. Tall, Dark and Hot pulls up a stool in her diner and offers her six weeks of naughty fun with a built-in expiration date, she's tempted to indulge.

They're the perfect match for a no-strings fling. Until they realize their sexy affair has become anything but casual.

MY THOUGHTS

All He Ever Needed is the fourth book in the Kowalski Family series by author Shannon Stacey.  The main characters featured are Mitch Kowalski and Paige Sullivan.

I love this author.  Whenever she has a new book released, I gather all of my pennies and dimes just to go purchase it.  Her stories always have the perfect balance between sweet romance and witty dialogue.  The characters are engaging and the plot is always something I enjoy.  While the two characters have instant attraction to each other, I loved how the author kept it from instant love.  Let me tell you though -- the instant chemistry was hot.  The sexy banter and scenes were so good and the hero actually had to put forth some effort to get to the end goal.

Both of the characters kept me engaged in the story and I didn't find myself distracted by an of the side characters.  The side characters just made the story more enjoyable and rounded out the plot.  Again, author Shannon Stacey has mastered the art of wit, romance, family and plot.  She is an auto-buy for me and I can't wait to get my hands on the next book in this series!

FAVORITE QUOTE

“Honey, love isn't like rappelling into a cave, where you can control your descent and how deep you go. It's just falling into the hole.” 

MY RATING

Outstanding book that will stay on my bookshelf for rereading!

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REVIEW: A Man For The Summer by Ruby Laska

A Man For The Summer
Author: Ruby Laska

SUMMARY
(From Godreads)


Dentist Junior Atkinson left her tiny home town to see if she would fit in better in the big city.

She definitely didn’t.

Now she’s back, living in the house she grew up in, friendly with every citizen of the two-stoplight town. Things couldn’t be more wonderful. Well, maybe if her patients paid her regularly.

If there was an eligible man in a fifty-mile radius.

If she hadn’t just been told that a medical condition meant she had only a few more fertile months despite her tender age of twenty-eight.

Junior barely has time to digest this news when she finds hunky travel writer Griff Ross in her chair with a hell of a toothache.

MY THOUGHTS

A Man For The Summer was offered as a free read on Amazon and I am a sucker for free reads.  Sometimes the free reads are like little gems and sometimes they can be not so pretty.

The first two or so chapters had real potential.  We have Griff Ross who ends up in Junior Atkinson's office for a toothache.  The banter between the main and side characters was amusing, engaging and flickered with sparks.  After those few chapters though, the book fizzled and never took off.  I was bored and shaking my head at Junior's behavior.  Not only that, but Griff comes across as gruff and stand offish at first then does a complete turnaround the next day.

The pace of the story was also an issue for me.  It would move fast - like how they meet one day and sleep together the next - then it would drag out and make my finger twitch wanting to hit the button for the next page.

While this book wasn't a complete loss -- even if it was a free read -- it wasn't one I would consider memorable or wanting to read more of.  One to take it as is being a book to pass some time without having high expectations.

MY RATING

If the library doesn't have it, don't worry about reading it!

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