Review: Tanner

Tanner by Sarah Mayberry
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I'm enjoying this series so much that I went back to get the earlier books and this was the first.

Evie Forrester thought all her dreams had come true when her brother's best friend Troy Jensen finally noticed her at a family wedding and the two of them spent a spectacular night together. Since then the two of them have kept up a sporadic relationship via emails and texts while Evie studies veterinary science in Australia and Troy is a bull-rider on the American Extreme Bull Riders (AEBR) circuit. After college finishes Evie uses her savings to travel to Tulsa to surprise Troy by spending two weeks with him on tour.

Unfortunately Troy remembers their time together a little differently and Evie gets a rude awakening when she arrives at the venue. One of Troy's fellow bull-riders, Tanner Harding, is riding high leading the circuit, thirty-one years old and getting a bit tired of the buckle bunnies, he has the misfortune to be introduced to Evie by the security guard and asked to take her to Troy. Tanner knows that Troy hasn't been faithful to Evie, heck he didn't even know that Troy had a girlfriend, but he is powerless to stop the metaphorical car crash that occurs. Later that day his white knight streak gets a nudge when he sees Evie going into a run-down motel in a bad part of town. Against his better judgement he rescues her and lets her use the second bed in his hotel room (all the hotels being full due to the bull-riding event). But is there any future between a young Australian trainee vet and a seasoned bull-rider based in the USA? And is Evie truly devastated by Troy's betrayal?

I think this is a good indicator of the rest of the series (that I have read), if you like this then I expect you will enjoy the series. Each of the guys is different, but at heart they are all rough, tough cowboys with hot bodies and lots of courage. Tanner is kind-hearted, driven, thoughtful and self-assured - all the things I want in a book boyfriend - and he has an eight-pack!

If you like American sports romances but are getting a little tired of the baseball/ ice-hockey/ American football plots why not give the Extreme Bull Riders a try? Even the descriptions of the events are fascinating.

Looking forward to bringing myself right up to date by reading the second book, Chase.

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