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was underwhelmed with this book, It's the case of good premise, poor execution for me,

What I loved:
I loved that Tomas, the hero, was celibate after his wife died, and his wife was his first and only lover prior to the heroine.

I loved that Angie was determined to get her man, I am a sucker for an unrequited love story,
Cowboy/rancher hero

What I didn't like:
I didn't like that Tomas was so closed off from Angie, and I never felt connected to his emotional anguish about losing his wife.
It seemed more like an excuse not to fall in love, instead of manifesting as cold, hard fear about losing a woman he loved.

I didn't like how Angie was pretty much chasing after Tomas, It just felt too desperate and kind of sadwith a heroine who came off as really needy, doing all the giving, but getting nothing back.
Fundamentally, I'm not a huge fan of books where the heroine does the chasing, although sitelinkThe Magic of You is a book where this was done exceptionally well.
This book was not a good execution of that theme, Deep down, I think every woman deserves for a man to court her, If an author strays from that, I like to see it done where the heroine doesn't read as desperate and giving the hero all the emotional power.
I don't like unequal power dynamics in my romance books, and this felt way unbalanced, I can understand it more if the hero is obviously crazy about the heroine, but he's fighting his feelings.
But Tomas really didn't seem that 'into' Angie for most of the book, other than lust,
The sudden reversal of Tomas at the end felt unconvincing to me, I was reading the book and realizing I only had a few pages, and all of a sudden, in the last couple pages, he gets the lightbulb about loving Angie.
It just didn't feel authentic to me,
This book just didn't get to me emotionally, and it really should have, with the concepts of a widower mourning his wife and his friend who had been so in love with him for many years.
It felt superficial to me, I have the feeling this would have been better as a Harlequin Presentswith a healthy helping of drama to give it that powerful zing.
Or maybe if someone like Nalini Singh wrote it, someone who can bring on the emotional intensity,

Final Verdict:

I was disappointed with this book, and that makes me sad, because it had the kind of hero I would love to read more about.
The good thing is it was a short book, Now I can move onto other books in my tbr pile, Onward and upward!
soso

She made the bold proposition to get under his skin.
And by Tomas Carlisle's reaction, Angelina Mori succeeded, Angie knew that tragedy had turned her friend hard and remote, . . like the Australian outback he loved, Still, she was scandalized that after confessing her secret fantasies about him, after offering to bear the Carlisle heir his father's will demanded in one year's time, he'd dared to suggest they make a baby.
. . without sharing his bed. Well, she'd wanted Tomas to imagine a better way,

The way nature intended,

Because being so intimate with Tomas might not simply save his family's fortune, . . but the man himself Stars! When his wife died two years before, Tomas threw all his energy into the family ranch, Kameruka Downs, in the Australian Outback.
Now everything that he lives for is at stake, unless he honour his father's will and produce a child.
Tomas doesn't want a woman in his life, nor a child, but he can't lose the ranch, Angie and her brothers grew up with the Carlisle boys on the outback ranch, and from the time she was a teen she'd been in love with Tomas.
Tomas chose her best friend to marry, and loving him so much forced Angie to leave Australia and to wander from place to place and job to job.
Returning for Tomas' father's funeral, Angie hopes to put her love for Tomas behind her, Not so easy. Learning of the strange demands of the will, Angie knows that she has to help Tomas, Tomas can't deny his attraction for Angie, but his heart is ice, Somehow Angie has to show Tomas that there can be love again and that she's perfect for him and his life on the ranch.


This one reads more like a Harlequin Presents, Tomas is one arrogant SOB at times and I found him hard to like, though he did grow on me by the end of the book.
Angie has spirit and thankfully knows Tomas well enough to put up with his hurtful, selfish manners, I'm glad Tomas redeemed himself, Angie deserves her HEA,


PRINCES OF THE OUTBACK trilogy by Bronwyn Jameson

When Charles Carlisle realized he was dying, he decided it was time to shake things up in the family.
He wanted to give his wife Maura a purpose to keep going on and to bring his three sons closer together.
In his will he stipulated that in order for the Carlisle properties to remain in Carlisle ownership, one of his sons would have to produce a child within the first year of his death.
He knows that all three of his sons will give this his best shot increasing the odds of success.
This is a true challenge not one of the sons has a wife or a steady woman in their lives.
In fact, the youngest is a recent widower and this will prove especially difficult for him, Fast easy read romance, set in the outback of Australia, What's not to like Bestselling and award winning author Bronwyn Jameson grew up on an Australian farm where she developed a lifelong love of animals and the written word.
Happily she was able to marry the two working as a rural journalist before a magazine article introduced her to Romance Writers of Australia and the possibility of a new career writing the books she loved to read.
After five years, a handful of contest wins and an equal number of rejections from Harlequin Mills Boon, Bronwyn received the phone call all aspiring novelists dream of: Leslie Wainger at Silhouette Books wanted to buy the manuscript shed judged in the Romance Writers of New Zealand Clendon Award.
Silhouette Desire published In Bed With The Bosss Daughter in July, Since the Bestselling and award winning author Bronwyn Jameson grew up on an Australian farm where she developed a lifelong love of animals and the written word.
Happily she was able to marry the two working as a rural journalist before a magazine article introduced her to Romance Writers of Australia and the possibility of a new career writing the books she loved to read.
After five years, a handful of contest wins and an equal number of rejections from Harlequin Mills Boon, Bronwyn received the phone call all aspiring novelists dream of: Leslie Wainger at Silhouette Books wanted to buy the manuscript she'd judged in the Romance Writers of New Zealand Clendon Award.
Silhouette Desire published In Bed With The Boss's Daughter in July, Since then Bronwyn has continued to write take to bed romance for Desire, winning contests such as The Aspen Gold, The Write Touch Readers' Award and the Anne Bonney Readers' Choice.
Inshe was a triple RITA finalist with her Princes of the Outback trilogy and a nominee for

the Romantic Times Series Storyteller of the Year.
As well as strong Australian heroes and spirited heroines, her stories feature all kinds of animals including an energetic Border Collie named Mac, a jet black racehorse named Stella, an attack cat named Gizmo, a talking pony nicknamed Mini Ed, a bitzer named Digger, a Russian Blue named Tolstoywell, you get the picture.
She still loves animals and the written word, Her home is still a farm in the Australian heartland, which she shares with her husband and three sons, a thousand sheep, half a dozen horses, three dogs, an echidna and a wallaby.
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