Halfway Homemade: Meals in a Jiffy
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Is it cheating to start a meal with store-bought biscuit dough, rotisserie chicken, and a bag of...
Dinner with Georgia O'Keefe: Recipes, Art, Landscape
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Georgia O Keeffe chose New Mexico as the vibrant backdrop for the second half of her boundlessly...
Casa de mi padre (2012)
4.5
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Armando's (Will Ferrell) younger brother, Raul (Diego Luna), returns to the family ranch with his...
The Missouri Breaks (1976)
7.0
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When vigilante land baron David Braxton (John McLiam) hangs one of the best friends of cattle...
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated A Wild Ride (The Bullriders, #1) in Books
Sep 6, 2019
If I'm going to be brutally honest, I'll say my enjoyment of this book ended about a third of the way through. I don't know if it was the bull riding--though considering I like to read about cowboys that seems unlikely--or the money worries that bored me but after the first sex scene and the subsequent meeting I just lost interest in it all.
I wanted more of the attraction and relationship between the two main characters and I felt it was lacking in some parts. I felt the book concentrated more on the ranch and money.
Not for me.
Cities of the Plain
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In Cormac McCarthy's Cities of the Plain, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty...
Hope Ignites
8.0
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Logan McCormack likes his isolated life on the ranch, until a movie crew starts filming there. When...
Yellowstone
6.1
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Oscar and Emmy winner Kevin Costner is the marquee attraction of the ensemble cast in this drama...
Tiny Epic Dinosaurs
8.0
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In Tiny Epic Dinosaurs, breakthroughs in modern science have dinosaurs and humans existing side by...
Merissa (12669 KP) rated Gabriel (Legacy Ranch #2) in Books
Aug 17, 2017
Cam, on the other hand, appears to have it all. He runs a successful hotel, has plenty of money, and even has a bodyguard. Things must be good, right? Wrong! Cam's family, with the odd exception, are a bunch of BEEP, condescending, BEEP, know-it-alls, who think that just because Cam is losing his sight, he must be losing all of his faculties too. His father, well, enough said about him!
Cam and Gabriel end up together on a purely business level. Cam needs someone to pretend to be with him, Gabriel wants the money. However, feelings quickly become involved, and then it's anyone's guess. Six tries to tell Cam not to get involved, but Cam pays no attention. Their road is anything but smooth, but luckily the folks at Legacy Ranch are there to help... once Gabriel lets them in.
This is a dark book, with dark topics and it's not a HEA situation full of rainbows and glitter. This is hard, and horrible, and may be a trigger book for some readers. There is light at the end of the tunnel for Gabriel though, and I really hope that he will feature in the next book, just so I can see what progress he's made.
Gabriel is extremely well written, with no editing or grammatical errors that disrupted my reading flow. Like I've already said, it's not an easy book to read, but it is definitely worth it. I would also say that it isn't fully necessary to have read book one in this series, or indeed the Texas series which is where we first meet Jack and Riley. This book does stand on it's own merit, but personally I would recommend reading Kyle at the minimum, just to give you a feeling of what the Legacy Ranch series is about.
If you like your M/M Romance with angst, then I can definitely recommend this book/series. Just remember the trigger warnings!
* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book, and the comments here are my honest opinion. *
Merissa
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