Gemma Weir

Property Of The Mountain Man is the first book in the Montana Mountain Men series by Gemma Weir and the first and last one I will read. I was in for a "super possessive alpha-male" hero kind of book and I was sorely disappointed. So many things are wrong with this story and I couldn't even enjoy it as an over the top one. Let's begin with the Mountain Man. Beau has been keeping an eye on Bonnie for the past year, making sure that she is safe. He doesn't even know why he does it, but it's his show more daily routine. Bonnie has been pinning for him for a decade and yet the only words he said to her in the past year were related to his coffee order. One day, a man from a big city came into the cafe, saw Bonnie for the beauty she is, and decided to ask her out. Suddenly Beau acts with jealousy and possessive of Bonnie. Upon his arrival at home, his brothers are the ones to point out that he has feelings for Bonnie and from that moment and on he wants to make sure that everyone knows that Bonnie was his and acts like he has been her boyfriend for the last 93842 years. He went from a dude who ignored and barely talked to Bonnie to a possessed man. I would have been ok with this whole situation IF Beau actually had feelings for Bonnie before the other dude incident. I might hate Bonnie too, but I agreed on one thing with her. He didn't know her and he never bothered to find out more about her. Beau is the kind of man who demands miles and Bonnie wasn't willing to give him even an inch. Bonnie had a whole routine in her life and that dude couldn't find even one thing she did acceptably. There is controlling and then is Beau. Alexa Riley's heroes are so much better.

Bonnie kept talking about communication and knowing each other, but she was a huge hypocrite who never bothered to initiate either and was just bringing them up to delay her relationship with Beau. There is a part where she ignores Beau's messages which I hate because then she moaned about communication and honestly she did everyone involved a dirty. She neither stood her ground nor did it make it easy for the reader when it came to her accepting her fate to be with Beau.

The worst thing in the book wasn't anything mentioned above but it's a little related to some things. You see, even though Beau was hanging around Bonnie for the past year, he was also sleeping around. A couple of weeks before the events of the book he slept with a woman who later in the book makes a scene and warns Bonnie about Beau. That is strike number one. The second strike came when Beau thought it was a good idea to take Bonnie to a place where the bartender is a woman he was sleeping with in the past. He and his brothers are hanging out a lot there so why not take Bonnie too? This chapter, where Bonnie is confronted by 2 women from Beau's past, is the reason why I decided to not even consider reading the next books.

The book was way too over the top and neither character was likable. I would not recommend the book. show less

I read this as part of the Filthy Elites Anthology.

I was pretty skeptical of this book when I saw that it was going to be included because I was part of the minority that struggled with the Mountain Man series from this author. Well here is the daily reminder to not judge a book by its cover because this was one of my favorites from the series.

I started a little cautious because I kept thinking it was going to be cheesy because of Sebastian's antics. Yet, as the story progressed, this crazy show more lunatic of a man won my heart. Starling (the COOLEST name ever as is his nickname for her) didn't stand a chance. In some ways, I felt for her. It was pretty insane how her life had changed. Yet, the author did a good job making Sebastian's crazy seem okay and that is a feat in itself because he was at a level of Kanye that even Kanye hasn't seen yet.

I look forward to her continuing in this world. This was a WORTHY addition to this anthology. show less

The Review
Okay, so I get the mixed reviews on this book. Beau is an ass of EPIC proportions and there were definitely times I wanted to tell Bonnie to run, not walk away from him. But he is much older and knows what he wants and his brothers and dad are hovering throughout the book and would never let Beau do anything to hurt Bonnie. So once I reconciled that in my head, I embraced his obsessive-ness. Bonnie does a good job of putting him in his place and eventually he does ease up a little show more and they compromise. Bonnie starts to trust that Beau wants a future with her and not just a fleeting relationship which allows her to embrace his desire to be with her all the time, instead of fighting against him and his desires.

Overall, it was a good book and I was hooked with the plot and characters. I am curious to read the other books in the series because the, although all the brothers seem like the possessive type, they all have different personalities and Beau's was definitely the strongest!

Tropes
Contemporary Romance, Alpha Hero, Grumpy Hero, Rake Hero, Self-Made Hero, Protective Hero, Possessive/Jealous Hero, Independent Heroine, Virgin Heroine, Working Heroine, Desk Steam, Bath/Shower Steam, Dirty Talk, Age Gap Romance, Childhood Crush, Sunshine/Grump, Hero Falls Hard show less

My issue with this book is that this is a book that is over 300 pages and all it is is the hero and the heroine arguing about the same thing with absolutely no progress and then there is a two-page happy-ending epilogue and then the book ends. There is nothing wrong with a book that is just sex and an unhealthy relationship but if you're going to do that, it shouldn't be this long. This book got so repetitive. There were some sentences that were repeated almost word for word and as I said, show more the same arguments happened over and over again with very few attempts to resolve the underlying issues. There were also no scenes of the hero and heroine just getting to know each other. They were always fucking or fighting. This made it so that I knew nothing about the heroine except she lives on a ranch and is a complete doormat and knew nothing about the hero except he was a logger and an asshole. Again, if you want to write something that's more erotica than romance, that's fine, just make sure it's not too long and repetitive. show less