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A review by obsidian_blue
Steal Me, Cowboy by Kim Boykin
3.0
Girl (Rainey Brown) has hot boyfriend (Adam) who wants to be a baseball player. Boyfriend after not realizing his dream moves to mid-west and coaches a minor league softball team. Girl decides to surprise boyfriend and car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Girl meets hot dude (Beck Harnett) in a cowboy hat.
I have to say romance novels taking place in the mid-west with men in cowboy hats are always hands down going to be a guilty pleasure read to me. That said, though this romance worked well at times, there were enough things that didn't gel with me while reading this which is why I rated the novella three stars.
First, the timeline for the hero and heroine to meet and fall in love made things way too unbelievable to be believed. Beck decides he is in love with the Rainey after about three days. Rainey starts to have feelings for him too in the same timeframe. I know that this is a novella clocking in at only 102 pages. However, there could have still been a way to weave in a longer timeframe or something so that the reader doesn't go from Rainey meeting Beck to having feelings for him in just a day or two after having us believe she is desperately in love with Adam and wants to make a family with him.
Additionally, though the character of Rainey was very enjoyable, Beck was not. Beck's character did not interest me at all. He seemed sulky and just acted like a jerk a few times and I really could not understand why Rainey was attracted to him at all. I didn't really get an everlasting love vibe from him at all. He just seemed intent on "stealing" Rainey from her boyfriend because she was short and cute. Neither of them really shared hopes, dreams, what they wanted out of life. I can't truly enjoy a romance read when in the back of my head I start thinking how the two leads will be divorced in a few short years.
Finally, there was a side plot with Rainey's boyfriend was brought up and then vanished out of thin air. I think that could have made it more interesting and could have added some meat to the overall story.
All in all, I found this to be a quick easy read.
I have to say romance novels taking place in the mid-west with men in cowboy hats are always hands down going to be a guilty pleasure read to me. That said, though this romance worked well at times, there were enough things that didn't gel with me while reading this which is why I rated the novella three stars.
First, the timeline for the hero and heroine to meet and fall in love made things way too unbelievable to be believed. Beck decides he is in love with the Rainey after about three days. Rainey starts to have feelings for him too in the same timeframe. I know that this is a novella clocking in at only 102 pages. However, there could have still been a way to weave in a longer timeframe or something so that the reader doesn't go from Rainey meeting Beck to having feelings for him in just a day or two after having us believe she is desperately in love with Adam and wants to make a family with him.
Additionally, though the character of Rainey was very enjoyable, Beck was not. Beck's character did not interest me at all. He seemed sulky and just acted like a jerk a few times and I really could not understand why Rainey was attracted to him at all. I didn't really get an everlasting love vibe from him at all. He just seemed intent on "stealing" Rainey from her boyfriend because she was short and cute. Neither of them really shared hopes, dreams, what they wanted out of life. I can't truly enjoy a romance read when in the back of my head I start thinking how the two leads will be divorced in a few short years.
Finally, there was a side plot with Rainey's boyfriend was brought up and then vanished out of thin air. I think that could have made it more interesting and could have added some meat to the overall story.
All in all, I found this to be a quick easy read.