Title: Cattle Valley Days
Author: Carol Lynne
Publisher: Total E-Bound
Publisher URL: http://www.total-e-bound.com/
ISBN: 978-1-907010-60-6
Genre: {M/M} Contemporary
Rating: 5 Nymphs
Literary Nymphs Reviewer: Mystical Nymph
As the new mayor of Cattle Valley, Nate is obsessing over making the annual festival the best it’s ever been. He’s working nearly around the clock, devoting his time and energy to getting every minute detail perfect. The problem is that because he’s unwilling to delegate any of the decision making to others, he’s exhausted and his relationship to his partners, Rio and Ryan, is suffering. While the two men are proud of what Nate has accomplished, they can’t stop the feelings of hurt and regret at the changes in their lives. Ryan is unhappy and jealous and Rio is worried sick, literally, over what might happen in the future. They’ve only managed to push aside the fear and resentment threatening their relationship when tragedy strikes, reminding them of their love and strength..…together.
Carol Lynne never ceases to amaze me with her ability to pull the reader into her stories and she’s outdone herself with the twelfth release in this wonderfully written, emotionally powerful series. I admit it. I love all of Ms. Lynne’s stories, but the ones revolving around Cattle Valley are my favorites and Cattle Valley Days is the crème de la crème. With the annual festival as the story’s backbone, I expected a bit of silly, light-hearted fun, lots of hot sex and humorous snappy dialogue. Instead, Ms. Lynne gave her readers an intense, pain-filled, rather dark, emotionally packed story, filled with miscommunication, fear, a little angst, and a horrific tragedy that will change the inhabitants and town of Cattle Valley forever.
It was wonderful seeing characters from previous stories, in particular the Good brothers from the Good-Time Boys series, who came into town for the rodeo. I was happy to see a little more of quiet and unassuming Jay and then there’s newly arrived Ethan. I must admit I’m curious to see how having Cattle Valley’s existence plastered all over the news media will affect/change the town and its inhabitants. Will more people move into town, will they have trouble with hate and anger from the outside and what about Nate’s homophobic senator father? And don’t forget all the beloved people injured in the tragedy. I, for one, can’t wait to see where the town and its people are going with the next release in this must read series.
Author: Carol Lynne
Publisher: Total E-Bound
Publisher URL: http://www.total-e-bound.com/
ISBN: 978-1-907010-60-6
Genre: {M/M} Contemporary
Rating: 5 Nymphs
Literary Nymphs Reviewer: Mystical Nymph
As the new mayor of Cattle Valley, Nate is obsessing over making the annual festival the best it’s ever been. He’s working nearly around the clock, devoting his time and energy to getting every minute detail perfect. The problem is that because he’s unwilling to delegate any of the decision making to others, he’s exhausted and his relationship to his partners, Rio and Ryan, is suffering. While the two men are proud of what Nate has accomplished, they can’t stop the feelings of hurt and regret at the changes in their lives. Ryan is unhappy and jealous and Rio is worried sick, literally, over what might happen in the future. They’ve only managed to push aside the fear and resentment threatening their relationship when tragedy strikes, reminding them of their love and strength..…together.
Carol Lynne never ceases to amaze me with her ability to pull the reader into her stories and she’s outdone herself with the twelfth release in this wonderfully written, emotionally powerful series. I admit it. I love all of Ms. Lynne’s stories, but the ones revolving around Cattle Valley are my favorites and Cattle Valley Days is the crème de la crème. With the annual festival as the story’s backbone, I expected a bit of silly, light-hearted fun, lots of hot sex and humorous snappy dialogue. Instead, Ms. Lynne gave her readers an intense, pain-filled, rather dark, emotionally packed story, filled with miscommunication, fear, a little angst, and a horrific tragedy that will change the inhabitants and town of Cattle Valley forever.
It was wonderful seeing characters from previous stories, in particular the Good brothers from the Good-Time Boys series, who came into town for the rodeo. I was happy to see a little more of quiet and unassuming Jay and then there’s newly arrived Ethan. I must admit I’m curious to see how having Cattle Valley’s existence plastered all over the news media will affect/change the town and its inhabitants. Will more people move into town, will they have trouble with hate and anger from the outside and what about Nate’s homophobic senator father? And don’t forget all the beloved people injured in the tragedy. I, for one, can’t wait to see where the town and its people are going with the next release in this must read series.
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