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Review: Cowboy Player (Cowboy Cocktail #3) by Mia Hopkins

My Thoughts:

A romantic and sexy read with a bit of angst

★★★.5

Synopsis

For eight years, Melody Santos played the game of love and lost—big time. Now she’s back in her tiny hometown looking after her younger sister, making ends meet with an assortment of odd jobs. When her childhood best friend hires her to help him sell his family’s grass-fed beef, the last thing she anticipates is falling in lust with the legendary, brown-eyed player. To put his family’s cattle ranch back in the black, Clark MacKinnon has his sights set on big contracts—gourmet chefs and restaurateurs. If that means long hours traveling from farmer’s market to farmer’s market, Clark doesn’t mind. Particularly since his new assistant is his childhood crush, all grown up and sexy as hell. One night in bed leaves them breathless and hungry for more. But when his love-’em-and-leave-’em reputation collides with her trust issues, Clark and Melody must face the truth about what they’ve become: not friends, not lovers, but players in a game that’s impossible to win.


My Review:

A romantic and sexy read with a bit of angst. The pacing of the book is really fast, in the firsts chapters Clark’s teenage dreams comes true with his best friend since forever. When we first learn about their past is kind of sweet- Melody has suffer a lot and now after her parents died she needs to be the adult and take all the responsibilities including taking care of her little sister, Melody is still heartbroken over her ex and builds walls to self –preserve her heart, unable to really let love in.


Despite that, I expected Clark wouldn’t break through those walls, but she had been in love with him since forever but Clark is the type of guy that never had a girlfriend just girls. Thou they have this undeniable pull.


But after their first night together, Melody pushes him away… For a while, Melody and Clark are stuck in a push and pull dynamic and she is always the one saying they can’t be together. Clark's afraid of what he feels for Melody, but soon realizes his feelings are only intensifying...what he feels for Melody will not be waned. And he’s ready to do whatever it takes to have her.


I did feel that the intensity of their feelings built a little too quickly in the beginning and that Melody was kind of leading him and using him. What I mean by this is that Melody's walls broke more easily than I thought, allowing Clark into her heart, while pushing him away after being together and Clark went from bad boy with a notorious reputation, to boy in love rather quickly. I would have loved to see more angst... a slower evolution for both of the main characters to maximize impact and deepen the connection with the reader.


I think with the way that this book evolved, knowing what I know at the end of the story, it means it was a good read with hot cowboy, and I’ll love to read more of this series.

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