Sable Hunter

Ok, this book is just ridiculously saccharine and over the top dramatic. The heroine is a martyr to such an absurd degree that I laughed multiple times. There were also several silly things: for one, anybody with terminal kidney failure who needs dialysis to live is qualified for Medicaid if they don't have health insurance. And Alex owns his company, so he can extend health insurance benefits to any employee's significant other without requiring they be married (not to mention he made her show more partner in his company, so she qualifies for the insurance anyways!). Also, a "special license" is no longer a thing. Regency novels feature them because you had to run public proclamations of impending marriages for a certain number of weeks before you could wed, and the only way around it was to get special dispensation from the Church by paying for a special license (basically give the church a bunch of money to get married without having to wait). This hasn't been a thing in years and years, and I don't even know if it ever was a thing in the U.S. In modern central Texas, all you have to do to get married is walk your happy ass to the courthouse and file the paperwork, easy peasy. And the villains! They were just cartoon evil, it made me laugh. I know there are a lot of bullies and awful people out there but their actions - particularly the main bad dude's -
were just completely insane. There was an overheard insult, several Misunderstandings, and so much delicate vulnerability in the heroine that the book reminds me of an 80s historical romance. It's absurd and I LOVED IT. The heroine is such a ball of self-consciousness and insecurity and unresolved trauma - exactly my guilty pleasure favored trope in books! She is so convinced she is plain despite being gorgeous that I allowed her a spot on the "plain heroine" shelf due to her angst. I skimmed over some of the epic-level cheeseball lovey romance parts, but this is gonna get 3.5 stars for its caricature-like portrayal of my favorite tropes. Speaking of, #1 in this series looks like it might be right up my alley as well! show less

Ok, this book is just ridiculously saccharine and over the top dramatic. The heroine is a martyr to such an absurd degree that I laughed multiple times. There were also several silly things: for one, anybody with terminal kidney failure who needs dialysis to live is qualified for Medicaid if they don't have health insurance. And Alex owns his company, so he can extend health insurance benefits to any employee's significant other without requiring they be married (not to mention he made her show more partner in his company, so she qualifies for the insurance anyways!). Also, a "special license" is no longer a thing. Regency novels feature them because you had to run public proclaimations of impending marriages for a certain number of weeks before you could wed, and the only way around it was to get special dispensation from the Church by paying for a special lisence (basically give the church a bunch of money to get married without having to wait). This hasn't been a thing in years and years, and I don't even know if it ever was a thing in the U.S. In modern central Texas, all you have to do to get married is walk your happy ass to the courthouse and file the paperwork, easy peasy. And the villains! They were just cartoon evil, it made me laugh. I know there are a lot of bullies and awful people out there but their actions - particularly the main bad dude's -
were just completely insane. There was an overheard insult, serveral Misunderstandings, and so much delicate vulnerability in the heroine that the book reminds me of an 80s historical romonace. It's absurd and I LOVED IT. The heroine is such a ball of self-consciousness and insecurity and unresolved trauma - exactly my guilty pleasure favored trope in books! She is so convinced she is plain despite being gorgeous that I allowed her a spot on the "plain heroine" shelf due to her angst. I skimmed over some of the epic-level cheeseball lovey romance parts, but this is gonna get 3.5 stars for its caricature-like portrayal of my favorite tropes. Speaking of, #1 in this series looks like it might be right up my alley as well! show less

Cooper's husband is dead, the sadistic wife beater is not missed. She escapes the town run by her ex's goonies to a small town in Texas where she swears to begin a new life, a good one, without him. But all the remarks hurt worse than the broken bones and starting fresh doesn't come easy… after all if her deceased husband was right she’s no more than an ugly cow.

After living in isolation in small cabin for few weeks she finally meets her neighbor, the handsome Kyler who she's been show more watching for a while now driving by his house, as she rescues him from a possible rattlesnake bite, just to get bit herself. Ky demands he needs to take care of her and take her to the hospital, and very very grudgingly she finally agrees.

Ky has never met a women like Cooper, she's his perfect match, a gorgeous little spitfire, but the skittish thing tries to evade all his approaches and insistently calls him a friend, but he has a plan to get out of the friend zone, but even if he does there seems to be much more to Cooper than meets the eye. And why is his ranch now suddenly under sabotage, and from who?

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I think I've found another favorite author! I absolutely fell in love with Trouble! I loved broken Cooper and Ky for wanting her just as she was never knowing just how broken she was. I haven't read a novel on domestic abuse since Stephen King's Rose Madder, and as much as I loved that book I loved Trouble even more! Maybe Trouble kicks Rose Madder's ass because let's face it S.K doesn't really write deliciously hot love scenes - Sable Hunter does!

I truly enjoyed the plot it was intricate in subtle way not robbing from the romance but adding to it. I loved how broken Cooper was, she'd been beaten, abused and tortured, physically and even more damagingly, mentally - but still she had a kind character, she had compassion for animals which she viewed as not hostile, where she tend to think people thought the worse of her. Which I can somewhat relate to myself, having been bullied at school, hurtful words for years on end cause damage.

Ky was the absolute rock of the book! He was there for Cooper every step of the way without any knowledge of what she'd been through. He wanted her, loved her and cared for her, this was touching enough to get any girls eyes to water, that kind of unconditional love. Not that the love was just pure, oh no, there was plenty of passion and sexual tension, Ky trying to control his and Cooper questioning both of theirs.

This is one of those books that you just got to read, you'll feel for Cooper, you'll root for Ky to figure it all out and you'll be at the edge of your seat when the suspense aspect of the story kicks in. I know I was! More than once I went "watch out he's right there, oh god, look, no don't go there!".

I highly recommend this book to you if you love broken girls getting whole again, dizzyingly passionate love story, suspense and of course a hot cowboy, with a twin! Which reminds me I have the 2nd Texas Heat book, My Aliyah: Heart in Chains to read next week. ;D show less

By: Sable Hunter
Published By: Beau Coup Publishing
Age Recommended: Adult (Erotic)
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: 4
Series: Hell Yeah #1
Review:

"Cowboy Heat" by Sable Hunter was the first in the series: Hell Yeah and I really enjoyed and stayed entertained until the very end. Definitely the hero Aron McCoy and Libby Fontaine really made this read quite interesting. Yes, it was erotic and good read and me being a cowboy lover I really liked the premise of the read. Yes, I liked how this hero show more treated the heroine... with all the 'pet names' that Aron made up for her. I thought it was rather cute. This author did a wonderful job at 'showing the playfulness and sexiness between these two people.' The description of this Tebow Ranch was simply off the charts...good and let's not leave out those 'McCoy men' who were all sweet and hot.

"Cowboy Heat" was full of emotions all the way through this novel causing you to really 'ache' for several of the characters. The characters I found were all simply well developed and so very colorful and only will keep you turning the pages till the end.

So, if you are looking for a defiantly erotica read with steamy sex scenes...you have come to the right place for "Cowboy Heat" will be a read for you to enjoy show less