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I LOVE THEIR LOVE SO MUCH!!!!💖

this was truly SO amazing and heartwarming and I felt like I was really there😭 also, for some reason this gave me the same feels and emotions as a love letter to whiskey so we all knew it would be 5🌟

What an amazing end to this series! I literally won’t stop thinking about this book for a while! CAM + DUSTY 4EVERRRRR

thank you netgalley and the dial press for the arc!

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This book was the perfect end to a wonderful series. Dusty and Cam's story was beautiful - full of love, yearning, and chemistry. I absolutely loved this book and thought it was well executed. Cam, who has been around for the duration of the series but who we have not known a whole lot about, had excellent character growth and I liked hearing her backstory. Dusty was also a compelling love interest and I was rooting for them the entire time. Although I am sad this is the last Rebel Blue Ranch book we will have, I thought it was a great conclusion and I loved how this book tied everything together.

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Every brides' worst nightmare is getting left at the alter and Camille Ashwood's nightmare came true. With no husband and nowhere to live, her perfectly planned life gets turned upside down. Cam learns that her dream house is available to rent with one stipulation: Dusty Tucker, the man she's loved since high school, lives in the house next door. Will they remain platonic friends or will they rekindle the flame that was never truly extinguished?

Every time Lyla Sage writes a new book, I always think there's no way she can out-do her last one and every time she proves me wrong. I was so emotionally invested in this book and characters already as Cam and Dusty's relationship has been teased in the previous Rebel Blue Ranch books, and I was so excited to see how this would play out. I think we all have a moment in our lives where if we are not with our high school sweetheart now (for better or worse), wonder what life would be like now with them now. This story is an ode to love that never truly dies and to never letting your fears hold you back from happiness.

This book was written stunningly, with flashbacks from Cam and Dusty fifteen years prior woven in. While we are experiencing Cam and Dusty relearning to be friends, we are also learning how their relationship started, bloomed, and ultimately nosedived. This pairing of present time and flashbacks was a beautiful bookend to their story and I was falling in love with two versions of the same characters. The high school scenes made me feel immensely emotional because I experienced that kind of relationship when I was the same age, and it brought a sense of nostalgia and connected me to these characters in a way I wasn't anticipating. When I started this book I was uncertain how I would connect to Cam as I am not someone who experienced being left at the alter, but I was able to connect with her sense of longing/pining, fear to love, and her high school experiences. I cried numerous times reading this story and that emotional connection for me was one that I wasn't anticipating and that's why Lyla Sage is the incredible writer that she is.

The slow burn of Cam and Dusty navigating their new relationship as friends was incredible, done in a way that I was screaming at them to make more of a move on each other. The accidental touches, longing glances, and hearing how little things they each did struck them in a tsunami of want made me kick my feet.

While this story is mainly focused on Cam and Dusty, we also see Cam's strained relationship with her parents and how living under their influence shapes how she is a mother to Riley. Technically, Cam could blame her parents for getting left at the alter as she only agrees to marry Graham to secure Riley's future in an iron clad trust fund from her parents. They have been sabotaging her happiness since she first started seeing Dusty, as they repeatedly held her own trust fund over her head to make the decisions they wanted. Her parents are harsh, cruel, and detached as her own mother tries to blame Graham leaving Cam at the alter on CAM. I have not experienced pain like that, but Lyla made me feel as though I had. When Dusty comes back into the picture, Cam feels more confident and bold enough to take a stand against her parents. Sometimes we all need some support in partners whether it be them voicing something you are too afraid to, or being there to comfort in a time of need. Dusty was that for Cam and my heart melted at the way he stood up to her parents and fought for her.

I highly recommend this book to everyone because it was a masterpiece, but this book is especially great for those who love:
✨ second chance romances
✨ Western / small town
✨ flashbacks
✨ forced proximity
✨ found family
✨ complex relationships
✨ friends to lovers
✨ slow burn
✨ dual POV

I screamed when I received this eARC because this series has meant the world to me, and Lyla is one of my auto buy authors - this still doesn't feel real. Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for this eARC in exchange for an honest review!

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The last book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series. Overall, I liked this series, and this book was cute. I liked Cam and Dusty and how simple their story was; no over-the-top drama, no major obstacles, just a simple romance to tie up the series. Of course, there were some cringe moments, but I still enjoyed this read. I read the other books as ARCs and kept checking Netgalley for this one. I was glad I did; I love a finished series and wanted to see how the author would end things for this last couple. I think I liked Cam and Dusty and their story better than a few of the other Rebel Blue characters. (view spoiler) I wondered if the mention of her older sister, Violet, would lead to another book. I wouldn't hate it if it did.

Thank you to Netgalley for this ARC.

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Lyla Sage is becoming one of my favourite cowboy romance authors. A great story teller! A very cosy read. I loved Dusty!

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*Thank you to Dial Press and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for my honest review*

Yearningpalooza, baby.

This is a love story 15 years in the making, showing how you can always find your way back home to the one you love (even if it takes breaking up, having a child, and being left at the altar). But it's all worth it in the end if you end up with a partnership like Cam and Dusty. This burn is low and slow and all about timing. It's simple with minimal drama, yet so full of angst.

I did have some issues with the third act conflict, but the final epilogue made it all worth it. Serious tears.

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I adore this series, so it's no surprise that I enjoyed reading Wild and Wrangled. Lyla Sage does a great job writing complex characters who you want to keep reading about. I read this book in one sitting and would definitely recommend it to people wanting to get into reading western romance.

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I will literally read anything Lyla Sage writes. This fourth book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series was FANTASTIC! It feels like a warm hug as you follow along with Cam and Dusty as they reconnect and have a second chance at love after her wedding is called off. The romance, the tension, the yearning…it’s all there and you can’t help but fall in love with them yourself. The family that makes up Rebel Blue Ranch is one that I’ll miss now that the series is ending, and I can’t recommend this series enough.

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Live this final installment of this series. Such a great ending and absolutely amazing! If you love cozy romance with a touch of spice, this series is perfect.

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The way the last book ended was perfection. And I knew I needed to get my hands on this one as soon as I could. The way Lyla writes love interests keeps me hooked reading and wanting to find out what happens next. There has been so much growth from this author from that first book to this last one it's absolutely wild. I'll be reading anything she writes in the future.

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Oh my heart. I LOVED this. Waking up today still thinking about it - second chance romance is my favorite and I loved their slow burn and the longing and watching it unfold throughout the books, I am gonna tear up just writing this ! The only one hotel room be still my heart, the tattoo, the secret letters, the sadness and joy I loved it all. I sorta wish this one didn’t have the “third act” break up I could have done without it- but regardless it ended quickly enough. And that last last epilogue of the wedding and visit to the grave !!!! I’m so sad this series is over. Thank you for this. 4.5 stars

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So good! I knew after reading book 3 that I would absolutely love Cami and Dusty and I was correct! I'm not typically the biggest fan of second chance romances, but seeing their friendship and relationship grow again after years apart was really heartwarming. There were also lots of fun and steamy scenes in this one. Definitely a must read and a perfect end to the series!

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thank you NetGalley for the advanced copy! As with the rest of this series, there were pieces I really liked and other parts I felt meh about. (Hence the 3 stars) I liked book 2 and 3 more but I still enjoyed reading this one!

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The buildup to Dusty and Cam’s book has been coming since Swift and Saddled and finally getting their origin story was awesome! I truly love Dusty so much as a main character and he’s just a truly nice guy. Cam was a character that grew up feel unloved and always reaching for her parents attention. Because of that, she is always over analyzing and second guessing if they people around her, truly love her. I think they were a good balance. I did love the flashbacks we got on how they met back in High School and the notes included were so cute! My only complaint is I wish we got a little more closure on her parents. It kinda was forgotten about at the end. But overall, this was a good conclusion to the Rebel Blue Ranch series and I hope one day we can come back to it!

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Gosh, I love the Rebel Blue Ranch series, and I'm sad to see it end, but I'm glad I got to read Wild and Wrangled. SPOILERS TO FOLLOW. At times, it felt a little rushed, and I would've liked more closure on the runaway groom situation. I also would've liked more info on how Cam & Gus got together. I mean, there is a scene that explains it, but I can't remember from the previous books if it was only the one night or if they'd had a bit of a fling. It's not super crucial but I think it could've been clearer. Anyway, this book is different stylistically from the others, and I liked seeing Cam & Dusty's history play out the way it did. I love Dusty's tattoos, and he seemed really charming, a great flirt. I loved learning the ways Cam & Dusty kept each other's memory going in the small things. Definitely recommend this book and look forward to the next series.

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such a perfect way to end this series! loved this couple so much <3 made me want to restart the whole series from the beginning

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One of my favorites (maybe even my favorite!) of the Rebel Blue Ranch series. Dusty was the most romantic of the leads and I loved the second chance romance trope. This one has all the feels.

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I truly hoped to love this, as I've really enjoyed the rest of the series, but this fell flat - the construction was obvious and trope-y, the banter seemed revisionist of the past few books and changed characters, and the charm was gone. It felt like foregone conclusions and waiting for inevitable resolutions without enough buildup or explanation. The flashbacks were juvenile, and weren't dramatic - they didn't add anything to the narrative.

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I never wanted the Rebel Blue Ranch series to end! Wild and Wrangled wrapped things up in such a satisfying way. After getting to know Dusty and Cam as secondary characters in everyone else's stories, it was so nice to finally hear their background and follow along with their love story. And to keep things spoiler-free, let me just say that I LOVED the final piece at the end of the story. So many happy tears. I'm a Lyla Sage fan for life and can't wait to see what she comes up with next! Thank you, NetGalley, for the ARC!

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I’ve been obsessed with Dusty and Cam since book three and did this ever deliver! I loved the back and forth from their highschool days to now, and I absolutely adore their happily ever after.

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