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One to Take in the One to Hold series was my first Tia Louise book to read. While part of a series it can be read alone. I only had a few times I had to think through who was who when secondary characters were involved but the main story and story line held its own. Coming as no surprise in a romance, our main male character is a cowboy who is an ex-marine. The female role was a bit more original in that she is described as a gypsy. Our setting also is not original. Life on a ranch. Not their ranch but a family member's ranch with an owner anxious for someone to take the reigns. Do we see that scenario a lot?
Our cowboy and gypsy are engaged and helping out on the ranch as our story begins. Louise does an excellent job describing the setting making it easy for reader to visualize the ranch, cabin, ranch house and property. She develops her main characters somewhat and her sub characters very little.
In her development of the relationship between our cowboy and gypsy it was nice to have two mature adults. At least in the beginning, then it began to play out in some surreal ways. One of those was neither having any real life responsibilities. When they encountered a crisis the way it was handled was so contrary to what we had seen in our character's personality. Perhaps the reactions would have worked as a knee jerk reaction but not written as long term. The Cinderella ending seemed too fairy tale for these characters.
For those loving starry eyed romance I would recommend this.
I was given an advance reading copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
One to Take in the One to Hold series was my first Tia Louise book to read. While part of a series it can be read alone. I only had a few times I had to think through who was who when secondary characters were involved but the main story and story line held its own. Coming as no surprise in a romance, our main male character is a cowboy who is an ex-marine. The female role was a bit more original in that she is described as a gypsy. Our setting also is not original. Life on a ranch. Not their ranch but a family member's ranch with an owner anxious for someone to take the reigns. Do we see that scenario a lot?
Our cowboy and gypsy are engaged and helping out on the ranch as our story begins. Louise does an excellent job describing the setting making it easy for reader to visualize the ranch, cabin, ranch house and property. She develops her main characters somewhat and her sub characters very little.
In her development of the relationship between our cowboy and gypsy it was nice to have two mature adults. At least in the beginning, then it began to play out in some surreal ways. One of those was neither having any real life responsibilities. When they encountered a crisis the way it was handled was so contrary to what we had seen in our character's personality. Perhaps the reactions would have worked as a knee jerk reaction but not written as long term. The Cinderella ending seemed too fairy tale for these characters.
For those loving starry eyed romance I would recommend this.
I was given an advance reading copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
