I was looking forward to the final installment of this series, and I didn't love it. "Wile and Wrangled" is its own story, but relies on a supporting family of characters, so it's best appreciated as part of the series.

What I liked: Dusty is just so sweet. The positive representation of coparenting is also a highlight, as is the contrast between supportive parents and distant parents. Camille's continuing struggle with her emotionally distant parents is a thoughtful inclusion.

What I didn't like: Cam is frustratingly blind to a trap of her own making. The third-act breakup was super predictable and annoying. I wish that time had been spent resolving Cam's relationship with her parents, but she neither confronts them nor ever acknowledges to herself that she can live her life without their money. It was frustrating to have so few of her family and internal conflicts resolved.

Overall, the Rebel Blue Ranch series was very enjoyable, and I'll be looking forward to what Lyla Sage writes next.

Thank you to NetGalley & the publisher for providing an eARC for review.

Rating: 4.5⭐️

Thank you to the publisher for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review.

This was the perfect end to an amazing series! I loved getting to see Cam get her happily ever after. I thought the flashbacks were the perfect form of storytelling for Cam and Dusty’s story. It just added so much to their history! I also loved seeing the other characters through out the story. They just add so much and I’m glad we got to see their impact on both Cam and Dusty’s lives.
And yes I did cry at the additional epilogue in the book. I think it’s the perfect full circle moment for this incredible series!

What a perfect end to the Rebel Blue Ranch series. I have loved all four of these books. This one is perfect for those who love second chance romances. Cam and Dusty had a relationship when they were young, and even though they truly loved one another, they couldn’t make it work because they both wanted different things. When they both move back home, and she unknowingly moves into the house he owns and right next door, they are forced to confront one another and admit that they never got over each other. If you didn’t love Dusty from the previous books, readers will surely love him after this one! He falls first and brings the swoon!

Wild and Wrangled was the absolute perfect ending to this universe - a beautiful homage to everything Rebel and its people, as well as the home and hope and community Lyla’s created here. Lyla is simply masterful in what she does, and brought everything in this book full circle—all the dots and stars aligning from the very first page of D&D to the very last of W&W. It was beautiful and powerful and fated and magical and filled to the brim with love and longing and YEARNING and joy. I am genuinely going to be thinking about it for the rest of my life.

Lyla has a way with words that cut right through me and dig themselves under my sternum. I feel seen in every story of hers, safe in the characters she handcrafts to be kind and flawed and loving and messy and worthy of love. Cam and Dusty both spoke to me in different ways. They’re such different characters in the RBR universe—Cam in her people pleasing search for perfectionism and satisfying everyone else at the cost of her own happiness, and Dusty in his desire to finally put down roots, wanting to feel still and settled for the first time in his adult life. It’s a profoundly beautiful thing to watch two people who are destined to be together, go their separate ways, live a whole lot of life to become the people they need to be, find each other again and still fit, maybe not exactly how they used to but in a whole new way that’s stronger and more solid.

Wild & Wrangled – Lyla Sage
⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

This was a fun, easy read that helped pull me out of a reading slump—exactly the kind of low-stakes, warm-weather book I needed to kick off summer.

It wrapped up the series well and gave me that satisfying “goodbye for now” feeling with characters I’ve come to enjoy. While it wasn’t a standout for me, I still had a good time with it and flew through it quickly.

Now I’m looking forward to seeing what Lyla Sage gives us next—bring on the fall release!

I've loved this series! Was very excited to read it before it's release and was not at all disappointed. Loved the characters and trajectory of this story. Such funny and heartwarming writing.

I’ll admit it—going into The Rebel Blue Ranch series by Lyla Sage, I didn’t expect a cowboy romance to hook me the way it did. After devouring the three novels before Wild & Wrangled, unsurprisingly, from the very first chapter, I was captured. Lyla Sage pulled me into a world of rugged charm, emotional vulnerability, and slow-burning chemistry that completely surprised me—in the best possible way.

Set against the backdrop of the Wyoming mountains, Wild and Wrangled offers more than just your typical love story. It’s a light, easy read—what I’d lovingly call a “beach read”—perfect for when you want to escape into a feel-good story that doesn’t skimp on heart. The characters are full of life, the pacing is smooth, and the romance is sweet, a little spicy, and genuinely satisfying.

I was lucky enough to read this book through NetGalley, but I knew pretty quickly that I wanted a copy for my shelf. In fact, I’ve already purchased my own and can’t wait to paint the edges and make it a one-of-a-kind edition—something that reflects how this story surprised and stuck with me.

Whether you’re already a fan of cowboy romances or, like me, just curious and open to being swept away, Wild and Wrangled is the kind of story that charms you when you least expect it. It’s warm, witty, and well worth the read.

I would love to give this book 4.2 stars.

From the opening dedication to the second epilogue I loved ever moment of this book. Truly a love letter to us Rebel Blue fans. I did my best to take this one slow and savor it!

It was so interesting to read this book from Cam’s perspective only ever knowing her as Riley’s mom and a friend of the family in the other books but you immediately see how her story fits right into the heart of the Rebel Blue Ranch. I just love this series so much and didn’t want it to end!

There is so much pining in this one!! Dusty and Cam are hesitant to begin a second chance romance when so much is at stake- but with this much history AND chemistry how can they not?!?

Sometimes flashbacks bug me but these all seemed super necessary to understand their history as a couple and individuals.

And I cannot end this review without a shout out to that second epilogue - just instant tears. So much love!!!

I’m sorry I am kinda glad this series is over. The author’s writing style has improved but it still felt so slow and the men were honestly slightly mysoginistic as much as they pretend not to be. Dusty and Amos are the best male characters by far.

After avidly digesting the previous Rebel Blue Ranch series, I was elated to dive into the final instalment. As much as I adored being back in Meadowlark, this one just didn't hit the same for me. I didn't feel the yearning between Dusty and Cam, and them finally coming together took way too long. There wasn't enough holding me to this story - if they didn't end up together I wouldn't think anything of it. Sage did an incredible job with the first three and I am thrilled to learn that three novellas (including one surround Amos) is on the way! I look forward to returning to this world but this one just wasn't a hit for me.

What a stunning story for Cam. I had been waiting to see how her story would play out and it was worth every second. Maybe a little too much time spent in flashbacks from their teen years but other than that no notes. It was amazing. Huge fan of this series, it got better with every book.

While I loved every book of the Rebel Blue Ranch series, I fear LyLa Sage saved the best for last because I AM OBSESSED with these two.

The longing and yearning, the flashbacks from when they were younger, the notes, the way he just KNOWS her, like how she prefers to wear her hair. PUT A FORK IN ME…DONE. This will be a fave of 2025.

Second chance romance heaven! I absolutely loved reading about Dusty and Cam. I tend to dislike flashbacks in books but I didn’t mind them in the store since they were so well written and felt essential to Dusty and Cam’s story. I love the Rebel Blue series and I feel like this was the perfect way to end such a great romance series!

Writing a review for this one is so bittersweet because once I save it, the Rebel Blue Ranch chapter is officially closed (at least until those novellas!!) and I'm just not ready for that. These books have truly meant so much to me and all the readers I know who have found so much joy from them and community in RBR. It's a series I will forever recommend and that I've already pushed on every single person I know -- for which they've all thanked me😋 Lyla Sage has crafted my favorite found family, with characters that all feel relatable in some way and realistic like they could be your own best friend. She puts her heart into each story and it shows, plus she's just hilarious and so kind at her events and online which always elevates a book in my opinion. This book, this series, these characters will live on forever close to each reader's heart because that's just how amazing they are.

In the real world would a blonde man in a crop top work for me? I dunno... But at Rebel Blue? Abso-freaking-lutely! Another absolute knockout of a book from Lyla Sage, to no one's surprise. This one is the second chance, friends to lovers, opposites attract, found family, it's always been you romance we all need in our lives. Wild and Wrangled is the final and sweetest book in the series and I just love the flashbacks to Cam & Dusty as teens experiencing first love. Luke Brooks has been my favorite leading man since starting this series (as any character even slightly resembling Tim Riggins is bound to be) but Dusty gives him a run for his money with how down bad he is for Cam. He is the most emotionally available man, willing to move at Cam's pace but never willing to give up on her. He PINES and has been pining for years -- we saw it in Lost and Lassoed -- so I was so ready for him to finally get his happily ever after. With the perfect balance of relationship development from the past and in the present, readers will fall in love with this love story, hurt for the kids that they were, and be healed by the adults they've become. They were absolutely the right people at the wrong time when they were younger and still needed time to grow and I've never been more happy to see a second chance at romance for any two characters ever before in my whole life. And not only do we get to jump into their love story, but the rest of the Ryder Family is very present throughout this one, so it's just chock-full of allllll the love and small town, close knit family/friends/community vibes.

It's the perfect wrap to the Rebel Blue Ranch series and the best way to say goodbye to our favorite found family. If you haven't read this series yet, now is the time to check it out since you can follow all our favorite characters from beginning to end.

All the stars & all the love for this book<3

I have been waiting for Dusty and Cam's story and it didn't disappoint I really enjoyed the flashbacks of their relationship back when they were in high school. Also learning more about Cam made me love her so much.

Final book in the series aaaaah! Okay so we finally got Dusty and Cam's story (yay!) and it was basically everything you could've wanted. A man who has unwavering feelings for a woman and YEARNS for her. Also he has hand tattoos and its a second chance romance... ;) Loved.

Lyla Sage is one of my go to reads, I wait eagerly for my next trip to the Rebel Blue Ranch. Her characters are so well fleshed out, you want them to be your friends. Pick this one up and dive right in to the romantic, heartwarming world of Lyla Sages Rebel Blue Ranch you won't regret it.

i can’t wait to start this one! i read the others in the series and have very high hopes. i love lyla sage’s writing style and her way of crafting a family dynamic that feels real, but it’s also something you can escape into. she has a true talent with words and knows how to make you laugh

This was the perfect ending to Rebel Blue. I was wondering how the story would be told without a born and raised Ryder as a MC but Cam and Dusty's story was perfect. Being the two most mysterious characters of the series, I loved how we got to learn their backstory through a dual timeline. I really thought I had their history figured out, but I didn't! Lyla Sage is a Wyoming queen and I can wait to see where she takes us next.

The last couple of the Rebel Blue universe is an opposites attract, he's loved her from the start, second chance for forever romance. Dusty has always been a grounding, calm presence in Cam's life. She just doesn't realize the she deserves that calm, caring soul in front of her. This is the story of her trying to break away from parental expectations fully and trust that the boy that she met the first day at a new high school 15 years ago is worth going against the grain. Dusty is just 'the best' kind of guy - friendly, far from aggressive, but not passive either. He's respectful of her and to Cam's eyes he is smokin' hot.
I enjoyed this last trip from Lyla Sage. thanks so much for the ARC!