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Broken Cowboy

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I thought that this was an enjoyable book and I loved it!

It had a good storyline and was very well written and an easy read too

This was a book that kept my attention from the start though to the end and it was a book I didn’t want to put down – it was a really good read

The characters were well developed and it was a fun read – it is definitely a book that I would recommend – it was full of hope, trust, romance and feelings.

Is 5 stars from me for this one, very highly recommended!

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So I am a total sucker for cowboy romance - especially cowboy's with baggage. While I really liked a lot of this book - I just didn't love it. Cade is seriously a line from an old school country song, his truck broke down, he's down to his last dollar, and his girl left him for his brother. He's desperate and down on his luck when Addie literally picks him up off the side of the road and ends up offering him a job.

Addie is also starting over. She's a freelance writer who bought a farm to try and live her dream of farm and ranch life. The men she's hired to help her in the past were less than helpful and really took advantage of her. When she connects with Cade - she finds the help she needs to turn things around.

About 50-60% of the book is spent dealing with that - but once she and Cade finally connect on an emotional and physical level and the danger surrounding Addie's property gets resolved - the book continues into another phase to resolve Cade's issues.

I think that's where things went a little off the rails for me - there was just SO MUCH that happened in the course of this book. Honestly - it could have been a duo or more. I felt like the author changed course halfway through. It was good to get resolution on all fronts - but it was a lot.

Overall - I liked it and if you love a lot of drama in your books - this is definitely a good one for you! There is something for everyone here.

I received this as an ARC from NetGalley, but these opinions are all my own.

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I received this arc for an honest review.

Addy has moved from Seattle to a small town and bought a ranch. Her problem though is she fried the foreman in the morning when he got physical with her. Now with no workers, she is worried about the hay and corn that need to be harvested.
Cade Brody has had a rough five years since he left his family's ranch and gone on the rodeo circuit. Now with his truck broken, he finds himself walking on the road back to the town he had just left. That is until a truck passes him and reverses. Addy then asks if he needs a ride. While going to the town she asks some questions but he really has the job. The story from there goes in two different directions or maybe more.
One, who is causing all of the problems still going on at the ranch, two will they both express their feelings for each other, three both need some type of healing before it is too late. The last one almost happens but you will need to read the story to find out what happens. A good story that I was able to read in a few hours for it really had me glued to the pages. Good characters as well as the story, very much worth the read.

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'Contemporary cowboy romance' said the description which appealed as I wanted a change from my normal genre and also liked cowboy books way back. I got Cade, disappointed in love, at odds with family as a result and headed off to become a rodeo man. I got Addie, a writer/research who has also just bought a run-down farm with a set of wastrel workhands whom she sacks. They meet as a result of her stopping to help Cade after his truck broke down. Instant appeal to each other. Smouldering looks etc lasted until about 17% of the way through when lust took over and they were at it like rabbits all too often. More interesting story involved odd becoming dangerous things happening on the farm - items moved around in the house which was locked, barn catching fire etc.. The wastral work hands were getting their own back - or was there more to it than that? Cade was beaten up rather violently several times and Abbie then kidnapped with fairly brutal attempts at rape. Not for the faint-hearted. The underlying story lline, although brutal, was interesting, the romance over the top to my mind. Thanks to NetGalley and Independent Publishers for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

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First book of The Montana Men series and off to a great start. A chance meeting due a broken down pickup truck brings Cade and Addie together. Addie has her own set of heartbreaks and setbacks, but still will do what it takes to fulfill her dreams. Cade has been wandering around for the last five years. Betrayed by his fiancée and his brother….his twin no less, down on his luck and broke on top of it. He accepts the ride offered by Addie to town and winds up getting a job to work on her farm.
Sparks fly, but both egos are to battered and bruised. Cade wants only to earn enough money to fix his truck and hit the road. Trouble hits the farm and Cade could not leave Addie to deal with it herself, strong as she is, In protecting her they explore the spark between them, but is it enough to forget the pain and insecurities of the past?
I am voluntarily posting an honest review after reading an Advance Reader Copy of this story.

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Broken Cowboy shows a lot of promise, especially for fans of contemporary cowboy romantic suspense novels, but its uneven pacing kept me from being fully swept away. It reads as if the author had too many ideas, and rather than saving some for future novels (this is the first in a new series), she tried to pack them all into this one.

Addie is a newbie ranch/farm owner slash editor slash sometime novelist, who finds herself in need of a ranch hand after she fires her original crew. As luck would have it, she runs into Cade on the stretch of road between her ranch and town; his truck had broken down. Cade, drifter slash former rancher slash sometime bronc rider, agrees to take the job. His plan is to make enough money to repair his truck and continue drifting. Their attraction is instantaneous, and in spite of both of them having low self esteem, they fairly quickly act on it. (Their first sexy time was a little cringey to me, but I'm sure many others will enjoy it.)

Cade never plans to stay (see aforementioned low self esteem), and Addie doesn't expect him to, but it's pretty clear to everyone else that they're perfect for each other. In any case, Cade has no plans to leave until the end of the harvest. To fill their spare time, they have to deal with break-ins, vandalism, and fights. At the same time, a handful of enemies become friends, at least one of which really didn't deserve forgiveness in my opinion, but Addie is super nice that way. She's also fairly careless; if this were a horror flick, she'd be the one to go down in the basement. To add to this drama, a couple of people from Cade's past show up. I'm thinking future Montana Men series leads.

Earlier, I mentioned uneven pacing. It really throws me off when a chapter ends with a little bit of a cliffhanger or even a simple "I've got a surprise for you," and then the next chapter starts a few days later. The results of said cliffhanger or surprise are then told in the past perfect. I want that stuff to be the action, please, and not told as a broody or even a joyful memory.

There isn't a lot more that I can say without venturing in to spoiler territory. I do think it would be remiss of me not to offer a trigger warning though, which could be considered a spoiler to some; if that's you, stop reading...
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Trigger warning: Sexual assault, violence

I received an ARC of this book from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for my honest opinion. Thanks!

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I received an arc from NetGalley and this is my honest opinion.
Cade and Addie had an unlikely meeting when Addie picked him up on the side of the road after his truck has broken down. Addie offers Cade a job to help cover his repair costs. The longer Cade is with Addie the more her ranch becomes more like home and Addie the home he has longed for but someone doesn’t like Addie on the ranch.
This book has plenty of mystery and action to keep you reading. Was it my absolute favorite? No, but one I would recommend to those that love a suspenseful book in a ranch setting.
3.5 stars

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Broken Cowboy by Jamie Schulz is a contemporary cowboy romance, which begins with a broken-down old truck, a woman with a truck that works, and a promise of a job for a few months. This turned out to be a better book that it started off. In the beginning it promised to be just another sexy novel, which it was, but it also had a terrific plot and good story. If Schulz had let the slow burn happen instead of talking about it incessantly the opening chapters of the book would have been considerably better. As it was, the book really began as odd things started happening around the ranch. Well, more than odd, really. Some of it was downright dangerous: the barn burning, the house ransacked, and equipment destroyed. The odd things were when things started not being where Addie had left the. As always, the crux of the story was miscommunication, or rather, lack of communication. It is never a good idea for a single woman, living in the country, to get on the wrong side of not-so-nice-guys. Addie had done just that with the farmhands she had fired: Ted and JR and Jorje. Now she was paying, but she couldn't prove a thing.

Cade had left home because his brother had cheated with his no-good fiancée. He didn't asked questions and he didn't talk about it. He just left. It had been darkening his hear for years, now and he firmly believed he didn't need love, in fact, as not able to love. Some time at Addie's farm turned him around, but he still had no confidence. Then, his brother appeared, they talked, and things changed. He left anyway. This book had some heart-pounding moments and it also had light-hearted ones. There were good friends, soon-to-become friends, and flat-out enemies. It was sad; loving, and heart breaking. I enjoyed it.

I was invited to read a free e-ARC of Broken Cowboy by Netgalley. All thoughts and opinions are mine. #netgalley #brokencowboy

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Addie, the freelance writer and newbie farm owner, and Cade, the random rodeo rider and wanderer, actually made a pretty darn good couple. I still don’t understand what made Addie want to buy a rundown farm or why Cade didn’t get more info before he took off from Montana. But their story was flowing and kept me interested. Good chemistry. Trigger warnings.

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