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Linda Lael Miller's third book of her Big Sky Series we see again just why it is that she is considered one of the absolute best at the western romances.
Sending us back to Parable Montana and the lives and loves of it's citizens,

Sheriff Boone Miller, all around smexy man with a wounded soul, Boone has spent the past few years grieving for his deceased wife, Letting his sister care for his small sons and doing everything he can to just get by, While he has friends who support him and a community that believes in him, he remains in an eternal funk.
Until the sexy chicken rancher yes it really is a chicken ranch next door starts to change his life.


After a painful divorce that left her devastated Tara Kendall, leaves New York and purchases a ranch in Parable MT.
. A chic chicken rancher to be sure, Bruised and Battered from the endless idiocies of her ex and grieving herself because she had no choice but to give up her stepdaughters that she had all but raised from toddlership.
. she has found her place, some wonderful friends and a great life, . well except for that redneck Sheriff Boone who lives just across the river in the eyesore of a trailer.
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When Boone's brother in law suffers and accident and his sister can no longer care for the boys.
. and Tara's megomaniac ex husband decides to ship his daughters off to Tara for the summer, life gets really interesting.
Boone and Tara find that they have more in common than they think, And one day magic happens, .

This was not a earthshattering, heartpounding, bodice ripping romance, . not thunderstorms. . rather a gentle rain that soaks into the reader leaving them smiling and wanting more, Boone and Tara are endearing, they are human and they make human mistakes, . as well as enjoy human triumphs, The demons they must face are those so many of us do, a rat bastard ex husband, the loss of true love.
. they persevere in the face of life's adversities, . until one day they discover that they have come through triumphant!

What was rather interesting to me was that in this book Ms Miller, didn't spend a lot of time in Parable.
. Oh sure we see a few of our favorite characters as they pertain to the story but the community as a whole takes a huge step backward in this book.
Which was wonderful because it makes Tara and Boone's story that much more poignant, .

I enjoyed this book immensely and I most definitely recommend it, . of course it made me dream just a bit, . I mean who doesn't want a brooding, sexy cowboy to come into their lives

Shauni

This review is based on the ARC of Big Sky River provided by netgalley and is scheduled for release on December,

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sitelinkBodice Rippers, Femme Fatales and Fantasy This is a sweet, uncomplicated little romance about a widower named Boone who is done with grieving and a divorcee named Tara who is ready to give love another chance after a failed marriage.


Due to an accident that requires surgery on her husband's knee, Boone's sister asks him to take back his sons who she has been raising since the death of Corrie, Boone's wife.
He does so reluctantly, feeling out of his depth and inadequate, His youngest son doesn't help matters by threatening to run away, To make matters worse, Boone has a tense relationship with his neighbor Tara, a New Yorker who fled to the country to lick her wounds and build a new life after her marriage fell apart.
She doesn't like his trailer trash lifestyle and frequently makes snarky comments to that effect, Boone is defiant, but knows he has let his double wide and lot run down since Corrie's death, Still, he doesn't like her uppity attitude,

All that changes when Tara's ex asks her to keep her former stepdaughters for the summer while he woos a new love.
She has missed the twins and is delighted, The align and Boone and Tara are thrown together through circumstances centered on the children, They discover that each is a better person than the other believed, Predictably, hot attraction begins to build between the hunky cowboy sheriff and his pretty city slicker neighbor,

I have read other Linda Lael Miller books, Her characters are uniformly warm, approachable, and sympathetic, Big Sky River is not complex and it is fairly predictable, but it is also a pleasing, emotionally satisfying story about two damaged people who have given up on love only to find it in each other's arms.
Miller uses humor to good effect and she has a way of describing small town life that feels very authentic.
Stoic widower cowboy sheriff and divorced stepmom urban girl turned chicken farmer discover true love, instant family two boys! twin girls!, and allegedly mindblowing sex, with the help of masculine joshing from his friends, and laughs amp tears wisdom from hers.


Surely none of that is a spoiler, which is kind of the point of the genre, I don't read romance often, but when I do, a I find myself feeling and acting with a little more compassion than usual, fueled by a renewed hope for happy endings for all beings and b I wonder about the difference between Romance and Literary Fiction as genres.


In this novel, at least, the core question is whether the characters will find their appropriate social identity finding it is the key to true, lasting happiness.
That's been true for most of the romance I've read, I don't read a lot of literary fiction, but my perception is that one of its common concerns at least for the last century is the nature of human identity, and while that can include studies of an individual in their context, the heroic characters stand alone.
Perhaps that's because writers of literary fiction experience their own lives as more socially isolated than writers of romance That can't be universally true.


The other thing that strikes me about the gap between literary fiction and romance is that, when I read really good fiction, I don't often emerge as a better person in the near term.
I may understand certain ways of being in the world better than I did before I'm likely to be sadder, maybe wiser but not so hopeful that everything can work out, that love in any of its many forms, not just those that lead to hot sex will find a way, as I am after finishing a romance.
After reading great fiction, I'm rarely willing to risk more to make the world a better place, There's no question that romance novels are fantasies, usually cliche, often unimaginatively written, and often loaded with bad habits of heart and mind and yet, as manipulative, encouraging fables, sometimes they're great.




Good writer,
First half quite good, . but the second half had instaluv and instasex, . so disappointing.
Opal is dogooder and matchmaker character,
Authors strong point: characterization,
This is last book of trilogy, I am in love with the townsfolk of Parable Montana, Big Sky River is book three in Linda Lael Millers SwoonWorthy Cowboy series and yeaha it was good to return.
Each can be read as a standalone, but if you are like me and want to know all of the side characters and their stories go for book one first.
This book focuses on Sheriff Boone Taylor and his cityborn neighbor Tara Kendall, Since the first novel Big Sky Country these two have butted heads and it was lovely reading their story.
As always once I started reading, I could not put it down and consumed this in a few hours.


Boon Taylor has loved and lost, Right now he needs to focus on his two fragile young sons and his career as the local Sheriff.
He has friends, a double wide and is not looking for romance, His next door neighbor Tara Kendall, a city slicker determined to reinvent herself after a divorce that left her mourning the loss of her stepdaughters but not the man who fathered them.
She and her neighbor Boone have butted heads more than once and his rundown property is an eyesore to her view of the river.
If you told her shed be thinking about kissing the man, shed call you crazy but fate has different ideas.
The tale had suspense, tragedy, a little romance and a few hot moments,

I have come to love the characters in this small town and their sense of community, I have always been interested in quite reserved, Boone Taylor and was delighted to get his story, He is noble, loves hard and is completely swoonworth, We get to see the softer, damaged and fragile side of him, His hurt felt so

real, Tara is delightful and has made good friends in town, Despite her initial fear of her chickens she has made a success if not unique living off them, Her snarky interactions with Boone were hilarious and when she realized she was attracted to him, her inner thoughts had me giggling.
Opal the town matchmaker is up to her usually tricks and of course other lovable characters from the first two books are threaded into this tale and I loved reading about the developments in their lives.
Boones kids were adorable as were the twins, Several events happen in town and as always I enjoyed these side stories,

The romance in Big Sky River was sweet, but I wanted more scenes with this couple, I loved the tension and awkwardness these two felt around each other, It was precious and sometimes downright hilarious, Their relationship felt genuine and I enjoyed watching it unfold, Other threads in their storyline were suspenseful and kept me turning the pages, While I felt assured I would get my happily ever after, the ride there was fun and full of twists.
Miller has created a town in Montana that reminds me of Robin Carrs Virgin River series with flesh out characters you want to visit time and time again.


I want to thank Harlequin for providing this ARC in exchange for my unbiased review,
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