The Cowboy and the Kid by Anne McAllister

At least he hadn’t before now but the young lady is seriously pushing her luck. Taggart Jones has never regretted giving up the rodeo life to raise his daughter, eight-year-old Becky, in a stable environment. Stars: Three, depends on what you want from your romance.ĪRC supplied for review purposes by Netgalley and Publishers It’s a good book, but not one that moved me emotionally, and really just not my sort of romance. If you like a sweet, non-dramatic romance, with a gentle HEA then this could be perfect for you. Millions of readers love them, they just don’t cut it for me. I see this was originally published in 1996, and maybe its been updated and rereleased, but it doesn’t feel that way, to me it feels very dated, very “clean romance” type read, and that's fine. What I want though is drama, jealousies, problems, barriers to things working out, maybe a couple of unpleasant characters for balance and here there wasn’t any. I think the biggest problem for me was they were both nice people, sweet, cute and all that, the story was gentle, Becky was a smart but precocious kid, its was all just so Nice. they knew of the other via school of course, but dates? Nope, unless you count the one where Taggart is warning her about one of the parents. I just didn’t feel the connection. Though I liked them all, I wasn’t really feeling the attraction between them, and didn’t really understand what they saw in each other. Its a small town romance, and I like those but I do need some drama, some real feelings between the leads. Sadly though this was just an OK read for me, a sweet story but one that didn’t really do much for me. Nothings like finding a new-to-you author with loads of lovely novels you haven’t read -) I’d not read any of Anne’s novels and as she’s got so many I was really, really hoping to like this. The Cowboy and the Kid, The Tanner Brother - Book 4, Anne McAllister

The Cowboy and the Kid by Anne McAllister