Longhorns [Banis]

3 stars

Buck is newly joined to the Double H ranch in Texas. Les is the foreman. Buck is not picky about who he sleeps with; be it man or woman, he just wants to get laid. He has, however, taken an interest in Les, and this irritates Les to no end because he doesn't feel that way about men, and doesn't think it proper. Les knows that his crew does do that with each other, but Les never has. Les plans to get rid of Buck once they get back to the ranch after the roundup, but Buck can ride, rope, shoot, cook, and do it it better than almost anyone else.
Umm. Not quite sure how I feel about this one. I enjoyed it, but I'm not sure if I would read it again. There were random POV thrown in from one person who was never heard from again, but show more most of the time it was focused on Red and Buck and Les. I'm not sure that Buck could keep it in his pants if he tried, but both Red and Les know that about him, and Les has settled on something that makes him happy. I enjoyed this little slice of life where the gay was all right, or accepted, on the ranch in a "we need relief" kind of way, but outside of the ranch, the fact that Buck was a half breed was a big deal, and he faced prejudice from that. show less

Synopsis
A bawdy love story set on the Texas plains. Longhorns ranges from hard riding action and sex as hot as the blazing Texas sun to lyrical descriptions of the Old West.

As I said in my post down the ways it is so nice for my inner bibliophile to have an actual book in hand. Victor J. Banis has written a grand book and although I did throughly enjoy it sometimes the utopia that was the ranch was a little hard to suspend the disbelief about. But, as is suggested in the introduction, that it is a response to BBM? I’ll take this any day thanks.

Les the, foreman of the Double H ranch, is out on the range bringing in the herd when young Buck, a part Nasoni Indian cowboy rides up looking for a job. He proves himself very capable right show more from the get go and becomes a well liked member of the ranch through hard work, skill at roping, riding errr…horses and his sunny nature. Les is a constant lure to Buck and he does not hold back with the provocative comments and lingering looks which drives Les just a wee bit crazy. Les finds dealing with Buck’s attraction for him rather difficult, and tends to do much stomping around and surliness which made me smile.

The smexin is hot and you’re so ready for it to happen you might find yourself cheerleading on the sidelines like I did. Loved the angst, fightin words and pretty much the whole book and apart from the utopia meh, it was a cool historical m/m read. The cowboy feel of washing outside in the trough, eating biscuits and riding off into the sunset was vivd. As I was reading, I could not help but think of my absolute fav cowboys from J.L. Langley and am just a bit tempted to do some re reading.
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