Lorelei James will always be one of my favorite authors
for her series Rough Riders. It was this series that showed me how much I love
series that span families and generations each book focusing on someone new but
keeping you up-to-date on the others.
In the Blacktop Cowboys series Lorelei has done it again.
Not with one family this time, but with a group of friends that made themselves
a family. These friends prove that sometimes the families we choose are
stronger than the ones we are born into.
The Blacktop Cowboys are unique in one very special way
that endears itself to me. Not everything works perfectly every time. Don’t get me wrong the sex scenes are turn-up-the-air-conditioning
hot, just not every one of them. Yet somehow Lorelei creates a moment that is even
better because it isn’t perfect.
CORRALLED is probably my favorite. It's the first book
I've read where the threesome didn't work. Hank and Kyle go into the threesome
relationship reluctantly and from the beginning there is jealousy, one-upsmanship,
and competition. The only time in the book the two straight men find themselves
naked in bed with Lainey after sex trying to sleep, it is awkward and
uncomfortable and one of the guys end up sleeping somewhere else. I felt sorry
for Hank as he realized that maybe he was wrong about what Lainey wanted or
needed sexually and worried that Kyle “had
brought his A game to the bedroom and Hank had rested on his belief that he had
it in the bag.” I laughed sympathetically as Kyle was “contemplating writing love songs? Serenading her by a
campfire? Or in the moonlight?” In the end only one gets
the girl. It is raw and honest and I
loved it.
The rest of the books
continued to have their honest moments.
In SADDLED AND SPURRED, the first time Bran and Harper have sex it wasn’t the “multiorgasmic fulfillment of all her long-held sexual desires”, in fact she
concluded “The reality never lived up to
the hype.” Trust me Bran more
than makes up for it. As for Bran, it
was interesting getting into his head. In
a moment of contemplation Bran things that as “a guy aware of his level of attractiveness to the opposite sex, Bran
knew he wasn’t butt ugly, yet he also knew he hadn’t been blessed with the same
head-turning good looks as his buddies”. Whether that’s true or not,
knowing that Harper felt that even Renner Jackson “doesn’t have anything on
Bran Turner in the looks department” reminds
us that it is all about perspective and that our other half doesn't need to be perfect he just needs to to be perfect for us.
In WRANGLED AND TANGLED, Tierney
doesn’t have multiple, or any, orgasms the first time she has sex. But the later scenes in the office (and the
bed, and the corral, and the hotel) made sure we didn’t feel too sorry for
her. As for dominatrix Tierney, watching
her find her power was hot, but not quite as hot as when Renner took over.
ONE NIGHT RODEO and TURN AND BURN each had their raw, honest perfectly imperfect moments too. Each one different and each one something
real people, men, women and couples, face every day. And all of their happily ever afters were
better for them.
I can’t wait for HILLBILLY ROCKSTAR AND ROPED IN.
Until then I
happily go back to the world where a virgin has multiple vaginal orgasms the
first time, and every time, she has sex and thank all of my amazing authors for
it.
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