The Cowboy's Last Rodeo by Jeannie WattMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Three and a half stars.
Shane Marvell is in his final year as a bronc rider, but he's facing a crossroads. He needs to win big in order to fund some kind of training for a future career, otherwise he's going to return to the family farm and share a bathroom with his adult siblings with nothing to contribute and nothing to show for a career in rodeo. His brutal rejection by his former girlfriend who said he wasn't husband material has also contributed to his feelings of being unworthy.
Ella Etxeberri is the only risk-averse member of her family of rock-climbers, fire-fighters and former bull-riders. An academic, she has just been overlooked for a role for which she is ideally suited and has run away to lick her wounds and pursue a potential masters thesis on the psychology of bull-riders and risk. She's interviewing cowboys at the rodeo when she sees Shane and there are instant sparks.
This is definitely an opposites attract romance. Shane didn't finish school and has nothing to show for his career, unless he wins this final year, Ella is an academic working towards her masters degree. She's risk-averse, he takes risks for a living. They are both trying to change their behaviour patterns but is love in the picture?
I liked this novel, there was more rodeo than some of the other books, more riding, more farming, more cowboys which I appreciated.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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