617 reviews for:

Taming the Heart

Elliott Rose

3.95 AVERAGE

adventurous hopeful tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Beau and Sage. I’m speechless at the moment.

Okay now that I’ve had some moments to get myself together again.

Each book in this series just gets better and better. And each couple has such different personalities, traits, hurts, loves, experiences. Elliott gives such depth to her characters and you feel their emotions through the pages. They are so real and tangible. Beau is a BEAUTIFUL, tortured soul. There are so many layers to him. He is ready to start living life once he is able to move past some serious baggage. That baggage made me want to tear her hair out too. This man deserves the world and more. I wanted to wrap him up in my arms and bubble wrap to protect him and keep him safe. Never allow him to be hurt ever again! And Sage. My goodness. I saw so much of myself in her. The oldest child/daughter, always feeling like she has to be perfect, and can’t ask for help. Always so strong and never allowing someone in. Until Beau comes along and shows her what she was missing. What she didn’t know she was missing but her heart was yearning for. Needing. His sunset sky. These two together….beautiful. The love. The fun. The SPICE!! I also love getting to see the other couples and their relationships as they grow together. I cannot recommend this book enough.

Oh and book 4…ITS GOING TO BLOW YOUR SOCKS OFF! Just be prepared.


TROPES/TAGS:
Married boss / employee
Age gap (she’s 25 / he’s 41)
Black cat hyper-independent FMC
Former pro bull rider MMC
He’s pierced / She’s found her new favorite toy
Do you want to watch?
One time only
Oops we can’t stay away
“Make a mess of me”
Banter
Nicknames
Toys as teammates
She cuts his hair
Talking each other *through it*
He cooks for her
challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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c7s24's review

4.25
adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

🌶️🌶️🌶️
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Meh. It was fine.
The sex scenes were better in this book than the first one.
However, it was basically the same plot line. Age gap, grumpy cowboy with a fun cutie girl. There’s angst and then some drama that makes her run and then grand gesture some time later and they’re together.
The angst in this one made more sense, I think, because of *the wife*. Instead of the oh no my son bit from book 1. I skipped book 2 so I can’t compare with that. But it was very irritating to constantly have the marriage/wife mentioned while we’re still doing it. Mandy wasn’t fleshed out enough as a villain for me to care. Like she’s awful but we’re barely exposed to her for the first part of the book and then she’s just classically terrible when she is introduced.
At the end when we find out about the divorce and Beau has PILES of evidence of Mandy being the worst wife ever and she only has 4 recent photos against him…? So why didn’t you get out of this sooner exactly? You have fuck you money (per storm) but your lawyer couldn’t negotiate an earlier release from this? Cut it out. Having panic attacks when you could DO SOMETHING. Stand up. (They put in there that Mandy is threatening the ranch and to drag out the divorce but if you had major stuff against her this just didn’t make sense as an actual problem.)
This book could have been shorter, at some point it felt like we were trying to hit a word count. “Damn well” and “goddamn” were used so much. Personally I hate the word feral too but it wasnt used that much; I just hate it.
The scene with Beau having a panic attack and then they don’t talk through anything they just masturbate was just silly. 
I didnt hate the plug of bisexuality to introduce Kayces newfound sexuality and I MAY pick up the next book because it’s MM. I’m not committed though because I’m not too much into the stepsibling romances.
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nneje93's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 50%

It was just so slow, like I get it he’s your boss and he’s married but when he explains the reasons he’s married on paper your good. 
emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This series is great!! 

If you enjoy a touch of taboo to go along with your spice, then you will likely enjoy this series too.

The characters have an intense chemistry and they make the spice hotttttt.