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Hope on the Range

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I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I had high hopes going into this book, because I have enjoyed so many other books by this publisher. And I was not disappointed. This was a wonderful book!

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Turn Around Ranch houses disturbed, displaced teens, rehabilitating them and teaching skills to deal with the world. This gives Brady his purpose in life after leaving the rodeo but something still seems to be missing and he is soon realizing that his long-time best friend Tanya fills this void but as something more than just his BFF.

Tanya is of the same opinion but since day one they've insisted that they will never be more than friends. So taking the risk of losing her best friend is the choice she makes. But pursuing her lifelong dream of setting up a rescue ranch is also on the list of her priorities but making both her dreams come true at the same time doesn't seem to be happening.

Maddox Mikos has been abandoned all his life by the people he's come to depend or care on. So as is common with teens left to their own devices he's in trouble with the law and has to serves his sentence at Turn Around Ranch. The last thing this bad boy mechanic expects to find is himself as part of a rodeo competition and partnering up with a cowgirl who gets under his skin and makes her way into his heart, allowing him to love and trust again.

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His cowgirl next door.

Brady, a rodeo rider and cowboy, is BF's with Tanya, the cowgirl next door.
They are best friends and are oblivious to what the whole town knows. They are meant for each other.
I adore best friends to more books and this one is very much friends to lovers. I like that they like and respect each other and they already have a lasting relationship.
Now, if they can just figure out what the whole town already knows.

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I was excited to see that this book was part of Cindi Madsen's Turn Around Ranch series. I loved the first book and friends to more is my favorite trope, so I knew I would not be disappointed.

Brady and Tanya have been friends and neighbors for years - just friends except for one time. When Tanya's family doesn't take her suggestions seriously to turn their dude ranch into something different, she begins to think that maybe it's time to move on. Especially when she's offered a job and figures she needs to let go of her hopes of more than friendship with Brady.

I really liked watching these two friends figure out their feelings for each other. Brady especially as he doesn't want to hold Tanya back, but he's not ready to give her up either. There were a lot of sweet moments and some that made me laugh, too. I loved their dynamic and how much they genuinely cared for each other as friends even before their relationship changed.

There was also a storyline between two teens on the ranch. I thought Maddox and Harlow's story was a nice addition to the book.

If you are looking for a sweet, fun, and engaging read then I highly recommend this book and series!

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This is a Cowboy Romance, and this book is the second book in the Turn Around Ranch book series. I have to say that I loved the characters in this book. I also loved all the storylines in the this book, but I felt there was just way to much going on in this book. I wanted more from each of the storylines, but the book had to many of them that you never got a lot from any of them. I did enjoy reading this book, but it just made me wanting more. I was kindly provided an e-copy of this book by the publisher (Sourcebooks Casablanca) or author (Cindi Madsen) via NetGalley, so I can give honest review about how I feel about this book. I want to send a big Thank you to them for that.

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Hope on the Range by Cindi Madsen is a book that has a beautiful, rugged place that pairs hard work with time to do some serious thinking so that actions of troubled youth can changed for the better. It is a place that has love for your fellow man but also where romantic love can be found too.

Brady Dawson and Tanya Greer are two adults who have been friends all their life. Changes are in the wind so it is time to acknowledge that their feelings may be more than just friendship. Then at the Turn Around Ranch young love may also be budding but lives need to be straightened out with a clearer future. Two of the main stories happening at the ranch in this newest addition of the series. Second book in the series, just as good as the first.

An ARC of the book was provided by the publisher through NetGalley which I voluntarily chose to read and reviewed. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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Hope on the Range by Cindi Madsen was a sweet and charming small-town friends to lovers romance. Brady and Tanya have been friends for a long time that many thought they were more than friends, but they have never crossed the line, yet. But what if they did want more? Is it too late now? Add in a sweet teenage romance and you have a very delightful read.

Happy reading!

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4 1/2 Stars for this sweet funny romance!

I love how in this series there are two love stories in each book. Tanya and Brady had me laughing-out-loud with their antics, while Maddox and Harlow had my heart breaking for them. All the characters are well developed and the banter between them is so realistic that I felt I was right there with them in the story. I love how the characters from the first book are in this book and I can't wait for future books with the other brothers from Turn Around Ranch. This is a great series and I highly recommend it.

Brady and Tanya have been best friends since childhood growing up down the road from each other. The whole town thought there was more going on between them, but that wasn't the case ... until recently. They started seeing each other in a different light and realized that maybe they were meant to be together. But will Tanya move away to follow her dreams? Or will her dreams come true right in Silver Springs?

Then there is a second love story between two teens. Maddox is new to Turn Around Ranch and is the brooding rebel. Harlow has never had a lot of friends so when Brady hires her to help at the ranch, she jumps at the chance. Seeing how her roping partner dumped her, maybe she'll find a new roping partner at the ranch. Maddox and Harlow have an instant connection ... but can the good girl and the bad boy make it work?

I received an early copy courtesy of Sourcebooks Casablanca through NetGalley in exchange for a honest review.

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3.5 stars
Brady and Tanya have been best friends their whole lives. Tanya wants to take it to another level, so she orders a dating guidebook to help her flirt and get him to see her in a different light.
Brady works at Turn Around Ranch, helping troubled teens.
Tanya and Brady have a fun and playful relationship, with lots of banter, teasing, and wagers against each other. I struggled with how Tanya is 29 but seems to be treated like a much younger person by her parents.
About half of this book actually focuses on Maddox, one of the teens attending the ranch, and Harlow, a teen from town, and their budding romance. The amount of time spent on Maddox and Harlow was somewhat of a distraction from Brady and Tanya's storyline.
I did enjoy the book, and it was well written and lighthearted. Looking forward to more books in this series.

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Hope on the Range is a delightfully sweet story. That combines an appealing best friends to lovers romance with a cute teenage one, and has a story that is relatively drama free, full of family feels, positivity and truly likable characters, and I was genuinely engaged throughout. And I'm looking forward to reading more from this series in the future.

Would recommend.

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I feel like I got a double story, a two for one in this book. It was friends to much more for both couples. Cindi kept the story going steady though and worked both in so well. Really enjoyed this book.

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Hope on the Range by Cindi Madsen
2nd book in the Turn Around Ranch series. Contemporary cowboy romance. Can be read as a stand-alone but characters and family are consistent between both books so far.
A ranch that takes in troubled teens and makes cowboys of them. Or at least a respect of the life and work. Two main storylines. Brady and Tonya, the adults. A friends to lovers story. Maddox and Harlow, teens. First love bad boy redeemed, good girl small town innocence learns a bit of the world.

Both romances are appealing. Tanya and Brady have been friends for years and she’s ready for them to be more. It takes a bit for them to get together but when they do, their romance turns just a bit steamy. The teens romance is sweet. I know that Maddox was supposed to be a tough teen but his heart was so open to Harlow. It was adorable to watch the two interact and learn about lives so different from their own.

Harlow had some cute sayings. Very country to my mind.
A casual family feeling overall. Not a lot of tension, but a graceful falling in love for them all. Minor teen angst.

I received a copy of this from NetGalley and Sourcebooks.

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Hope on the Range by Cindi Madsen
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Genre: Romance
Publication Date: June 29, 2021

Hope on the Range by Cindi Madsen is the second book in the Turn Around Ranch series. I had not read the first book (but I will be very soon!) and I was able to easily read this as a standalone romance.

I loved the story. The characters are so sweet and filled with so much heart! I loved that the Turn Around Ranch is set up to help troubled teens in the community.

The romance is a sweet and a little steamy! I loved the cowboy/ranch theme. I also loved the message of follow your dreams woven throughout!

I really enjoyed this book and look forward to other books featuring the Turn Around Ranch and its community! I recommend this if you're looking for a sweet romance that can make you feel all the feels!

I'm so grateful to Cindi Madsen, Sourcebooks Casablanca, and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this ARC ebook in exchange for my honest review.

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i loved this book! it is such a cute read. i am looking forward to more in this series. I read the first book because i loved this story so much.

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As I said in my review of Country Hearts, Cindi Madsen keeps surprising, with all different kinds of stories. And although Hope on the Range is also with a cowboy-theme it is totally different from Country Hearts. But it still takes your breath away. The Turn Around Ranch offers rehabilitation for troubled teens like Maddox. He is one stubborn badboy, but when he opens up to Harlow, one of the girls assisting on the ranch: well, take out a tissue, because it will break your heart. Of course, the main story is about Brady and Tanya, but there are a lot of interesting other characters, like Maddox and Harlow. And also, there is Brady's brother, Nash, of whom we see glimpses of an interesting story. I do hope, that Cindi will return to The Turn Around Ranch, because there are more characters that deserve a wonderful story like Tanya and Brady. Intense, heartwarming and funny! Five out of five stars from me and a special thank you to Netgalley for providing the arc.

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Received a copy of this book for review. Overall it is a good read for me. Love the chemistry between the main characters. Love all the characters. What I love is that each of them does make a difference to the story as it developed. Like to read how the characters In the story are interrelated to each other. It make the story more exciting to read. The setting of the story is nice and is fit nicely to the story.Story plot are well penned out, with a slight twist to it in the end

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HOPE ON THE RANGE – Cindi Madsen
A Turn Around Ranch Novel, Book 2
Sourcebooks Casablanca
ISBN:978-1-4926-8920-1
June 29, 2021
Contemporary Romance

Colorado – Present Day

Brady Dawson, along with his family, runs the Turn Around Ranch which helps disadvantaged kids. It keeps him busy, but not enough so that he can’t spend time with his best friend and neighbor, Tanya Greer. Brady wants to keep his relationship with Tanya as friends only, so he hasn’t tried to make any moves on her. But one day, she starts to make the moves on him. Should he take her up on the offer to go beyond friendship?

Tanya has secretly been attracted to Brady for years, but he’s refused to look at her as nothing more than as his best friend. Using a book she bought online, she uses its tricks to catch Brady’s attention. At first, it doesn’t work, but soon they’re kissing…hotly. Has the dam broken? Will their friendship turn into a romance? What if it ends in a disaster?

Teenager Harlow is getting ready for the upcoming rodeo by training for the barrel racing competition. She lost her partner recently, so could use another one. She is attracted to a boy who was recently sent to the Turn Around Ranch after he got into some trouble. Maddox is sullen and not so friendly, yet Harlow seems to get him to talk to her. He is the bad boy that Harlow’s mother would no doubt warn her away from. But Harlow asks Maddox to be her partner, and he agrees. It means working closely together as she trains him. Will their budding friendship turn into something more?

Welcome back to the Turn Around Ranch, a place that helps kids turn into responsible adults. Hard work and a good attitude are a must. There is plenty of good-natured banter between Brady and his family in HOPE ON THE RANGE as they all work together to build the ranch into something bigger and better. Tanya and her family have a dude ranch, which is a nice neighboring ranch to complement the Dawson family’s. However, Tanya feels somewhat stifled because she wants to expand her family’s ranch and they won’t take her ideas seriously. Is it time to move out and on her own? What about her attraction to Brady?

In HOPE ON THE RANGE, there are a lot of characters, too many to have me list by name, but they are the family and friends of Brady and Tanya. Everyone likes to poke fun at Brady and Tanya, though they try to keep their friendship that turns to romps in the hay from everyone in hopes they won’t find out. Which is hard to do when they get caught in the barn making out. HOPE ON THE RANGE is a fun and entertaining novel that will tickle your fancy while leaving you satisfied. Will everyone be happy by the end of this tale? Grab a copy and find out!

Patti Fischer
Romance Reviews Today

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4 out of 5 stars!

Next-door neighbors and best friends have their lives change as the couple pursue a new direction in their relationship. Harboring such feelings, they began this new path amidst familial issues, new career directions, and the troubled teens that comes to the hero's home for safety and rehabilitation.

I enjoyed reading this Cindi Madsen book. I didn't read the first book of the series but this book delivered enough information that readers are not lost about what happened in that particular book. This book provided a friends-to-lovers in the main couple as well as a burgeoning teenage romance between a local cowgirl and a city-slicker teenager that needed some help. The setting gave positive vibes and not a lot of drama that were resolved in the end. It would have been nice for some more details in some parts for better transition but that's a personal preference of mine. Overall, it's an enjoyable book and I look forward to reading more Cindi Madsen in the future.

**Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the review copy. All opinions and thoughts in the review are my own.**

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Just like the previous book in the series, this felt on the longer side, but was told from multiple perspectives, so it was almost like getting 2 stories in one. I liked that, about how it was written, it kept it interesting. Friends to lovers is my favorite romance trope, so I was excited to jump into this book. And it had the added story of Maddox and Harlow. I definitely want to keep reading this series, especially when it comes to Nash's story.

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Hope on the Range is the second book in the Turn Around Ranch series.

Brady Dawson and Tanya Greer have been friends for ages. Growing up on farms that were neighboring, they met early in life and they've pretty much been through all the things together over the years. While Brady works with troubled teens at his family ranch, Tanya works to help mistreated horses and other stray animals. Tanya has a huge heart and Brady is so wonderful and patient with the kids he works with.

We also have teens, Maddox and Harlow, whose sweet romance also unfolds. Maddox is at the ranch and his past is heartbreaking, while Harlow is a local and meets him at the ranch.

I so wanted to enjoy this book more than I did. I enjoyed the characters and individually the storylines were good as well, but there was so much happening. I feel like we didn't get as much of each story as we could have given how much was spread to the multiple storylines and I found it hard to get into. I enjoy Cindi Madsen's writing, so I'll most certainly give the next one in this series a try as well.

**I voluntarily read an early copy of this title courtesy of NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review**

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