All Night Long with a Cowboy by Caitlin CrewsMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Three and a half stars.
Jensen Kittredge, second son, part-time fire-jumper and full-time casanova and fun-time guy. Jensen doesn't do relationships, he doesn't do serious and he never lets anyone see the real him. What no-one realises is that this is self-imposed penance for something that happened when he was eighteen years old.
Harriet Barnett moved to Cold River three years ago. She knows everyone else thinks she's a bit odd, cat-lady, librarian, old-lady dress sense, she just doesn't care very much, she's happy with her books and her knitting and her cats. But when one of her group of Summer School delinquents sneers at her attempts to bring in inspirational speakers to motivate them to do better, and suggests the only person worth listening to is Jensen Kittredge, Harriet is determined to get Jensen to speak to them. Even if it means confronting him in the den of iniquity bar he frequents on a Saturday night.
Jensen can't believe it when his night of whisky and loose women is interrupted by a diminutive woman, dressed like an old maid, clasping her giant handbag like a comfort blanket. She doesn't seem to be put off by any of his tried and trusted stratagems for shaking off women and his overt sexual innuendos seem to bounce off her.
This is a classic opposites attract romance, the bad boy and the librarian, the casanova and the virgin. I really enjoyed it, but it didn't have the emotional heft for me of the first book - although so many other readers didn't like the book. Also, Cold River seems to be populated by men who are all atoning for some deep dark secret from their pasts - must be a dreadful place to grow up LOL.
I am really holding out for Jensen's brother Zack's story, the buttoned-up oldest son who is the only male member of the family ever to get a job away from the Kittredge Ranch.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest opinion.
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