Friday, June 03, 2016

Midnight Ride

The first in yet another Cowboy Romance series by author Cat Johnson. The cover art pictures a husky model with massive shoulders and biceps. Tyler is a happy go lucky ranch hand out for good times when he runs into the widow Janie from the ranch next door. Hard to believe this hunk ran from anything but they meet up when she finds him hiding from trouble in the back of her dual-wheeled diesel truck. And so the adventure begins.

Like red tape so-called because the clerks who wrote it were paid by the word this novel is unnecessarily wordy. It may make for greater drama in these tales but the women in them seem terribly needy and insecure about themselves and their relationships. At the slightest pretext they seem to doubt themselves and the commitment of their perspective mates and lapse into an orgy of fretting and brooding. Given this lack of confidence their eventual agreements to marry these guys seem rather insincere. If a woman expects a man to account for every moment he's out of her sight before marriage what's to expect matters to be any different after?

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