Reviewed by Dan
This is a Series Review of Tales from Triple M Ranch – Books 1 – 4
AUTHOR: Kelex
PUBLISHER: Twisted E-Publishing, LLC
SERIES REVIEW:
Ok, so you say that sometimes you just need to let your hair down and fall into a fairly smutty little erotica series that also has a plot and good storyline so you don’t feel like you’re just reading Penthouse Forum?
Then the “Tales from Triple M Ranch” novellas would be perfect for you at that time. Enough sex to keep anyone happy, but with a good storyline as well as well-developed characters.
I really enjoyed getting to know the men of the Triple M and Circle J ranches and their intertwined stories. I recommend the series to anyone who likes their stories a bit heavier on the sex side that some of the other books I review. If you’re looking for sweet/no sex, this would definitely not be the author for you!
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TITLE: Rode hard
LENGTH: 79 Pages
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When he’s caught screwing the ranch’s owner, Austin Hemming gets kicked off the property by the owner’s missus. He’s got a long habit of thinking with the wrong head, as his desire for a spot of fun is all he really cares about. Luckily, he’s a hard worker, too, and lands a job at the Triple M ranch in the next county alongside three of the toughest ranch hands around.
Jensen James has been in a three-way with ranch hands Owen and Davis for years. They’d worked well together and loved hard all night, but Jensen couldn’t stop feeling like the odd man out. When ranch owner, Mack Maitland, announces he’s bought the ranch next door and wants to increase his herd—and bring in new hands—Owen and Davis see it as the end to their fun. Jensen sees it as an opportunity, especially after he meets hot-bodied new hand Austin.
The two of them combust when they’re around one another, but soon learn they just might not suit. Jensen refuses to give up, though, and quickly wears Austin down.
REVIEW:
Well now. This series is working much better for me than the last series I reviewed last week. That one was too much porn for me. In the words of Goldilocks….this one is just right!
Holy Hotness Batman. I’m really liking this series so far. In book one, “Rode Hard”, we meet Austin Hemming while he is in the middle of finally topping his formerly resistant boss. I say formerly because when we meet the boss, he has a butt plug with a horses tale inserted in his anus, and has a bridle on! He is begging Austin to mount him, so what is a guy to do. Only one huge problem. Just as Austin gets ready to have his happy moment, the boss’ wife comes walking into the stable and catches them!
Out of a job. Austin takes off on foot looking for work. After walking for two days he serendipitously stumbles onto the perfect job, with a total understanding ranch owner. But what is up with the three guys who are currently working for the ranch owner? Why are they so hesitant to accept a new hand?
This book is very well written. Just sexy enough to keep the reader a little hot and bothered, but with a great story as well. I liked the character development and the interaction that occurs once Austin meets Jensen, the foreman at the new ranch, as well as the further interaction with Owen and Davis.
I highly recommend this first installment. Off to number two…
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TITLE: Hell Fired
LENGTH: 83 Pages
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New ranch hand Grayson McCloud is just settling in to the Triple M when he gets an eyeful. Several of the other hands are participating in a clandestine orgy, and Gray can’t help but watch and listen to the pleasure unfold. Jealousy and loneliness fill him, and he envisions himself having a wild ride with two of the new hands hired about the same time he was. Only problem is, Gray is fairly sure they’re both straight as an arrow.
When he’s paired up with those same two—Scotty Givens and Dale Hughes—they ask him about the moans and groans they’d heard through the thin walls of the bunkhouse. Gray doesn’t know how to respond without giving away the lust he’d felt that night and how much he’d wanted to do the same with Scotty and Dale.
Both men sense Gray’s desire and decide to put him to the test while spending a night on the range, looking for whoever is killing off Triple M cattle. Scotty and Dale each take a piece of Gray and eventually force him to choose between them—although he can’t foresee not having them both.
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Oh, Kelex, you are just plain bad. Another delightful installment that I flew through after saying I was done reading for the night!
“Hell Fired” begins shortly after the end of book one. The same four cowboys are still on the Triple M, but now they have been joined by three new cowboys as well. Grayson (Gray) McCloud manages to stumble onto a fourgy in mid-action with four hot cowboys all hooked together in various orifices of each other. Once he is noticed, and spoken to, he runs away, but he is soon found on the porch by two of the four and some wild, unexpected sex occurs.
There are also the two other new cowboys though, Scotty and Dale, and truthfully Gray is much more attracted to both of them then he is to the couple who entertain him on the porch. What will he do? Are Scotty and Dale hetero? How can he find out? When an opportunity to spend a night on the range with both men pops up, will it be the only thing popping up?
Again, a good storyline, brimming with hot sex scenes. I’m really liking this series!
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TITLE: Wild Ride
LENGTH: 98 Pages
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Cooper Hardwick is stuck between a rock and a hard place. On one side is his greedy, sanity-challenged Uncle Pete, who holds a dark secret over Cooper’s head. On the other is Sheriff Nate Tanner, the deliciously handsome lawman who wants to bring his uncle and the goings on at the Circle J Ranch down.
Cooper can’t help but to seduce the sheriff, but he unknowingly aids his uncle in blackmailing the man. Nate can’t forgive what Cooper has done and tosses him out into the night without ever telling Cooper what he’d done to deserve it.
When Pete starts killing off Mack Maitland’s cattle, Cooper knows the man has crossed a line there might not be any coming back from. To save the Triple M, and all the men who call it home, Cooper has to work alongside the man who shattered him a year before. Can he and Nate see through all the lies, all the misunderstanding, and find their way back to one another before Pete explodes into more violence?
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As we know from the previous books in the series, the rancher next door to the Triple M is a piece of work. We found out his was killing heifers on the Triple M as a way of harassing the owner, Mack. Then we met his nephew Cooper when he came to tell Mack about the cattle killings.
In “Wild Ride”, we learn more about Cooper and about Uncle Pete’s ranch business. Or should I say just business, since the only tie to a ranch are the “ponies”. Kelex definitely taught me some stuff in this one. I’m finding more and more these days just how vanilla my life is.
No more spoilers. This was another great installment in the series. I really liked the story of the Cowboy and the Sheriff! Although the story had a lot of sex, it also had an interesting story line, so was a great combo.
Now off to read the continuing saga in book four!
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TITLE: Pony Ride
LENGTH: 95 Pages
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Fifth generation Texas Ranger Chris Wright has always lived on the right side of the law. When he’s asked to cover up the prostitution ring at the Circle J, he has a crisis of conscious, especially since it’s an infamous and well-connected family member who does the asking. Chris agrees to go, as long as he has his friend and fellow Ranger, Joaquin Maverick, at his side.
Maverick isn’t all that enthused to have been pulled into the mess, given that he may have to play a role in the cover up. When the two roll into the Circle J, things become even more of a mess when one of the whorehouse’s pony prostitutes turns out to be a young man from Maverick’s past. Their preconceived ideas about sex, love, and pony play are put to the test as they try to stay on the right side of the law.
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“Pony Ride” picks up part way through the events told in “Wild Ride” above. When the events in that book became dicey, the Texas Rangers arrived. In book four, we learn more about those Rangers, Chris Wright and Joaquin Maverick. Chris has been hand-selected by his Grandfather, a former Ranger himself. But why is it so important that Chris destroy all evidence of the Pony Farm?
I enjoyed how this book kind of told the other side of the story that we heard in book three. Although the Rangers were there in that book, we didn’t get to meet them. In book four we get to meet them and one lucky soul gets to become VERY involved with BOTH of them.
Along the way, they find a long lost acquaintance of Joaquin, they find some damning evidence about a lot of high ranking men in Texas and they manage to rescue a large group of prostitutes who have been kept at the Pony Ranch, unpaid, so they couldn’t get away. Not sex slaves, because they were there of their own free will, but almost…since they were miles from the nearest town with no way to get there.
I really enjoyed the digging out of corrupt politicians and powerful men, and loved that it was set in Texas where they are soooo very strongly anti-gay. One can only wonder if there are actually some Pony Farms in the boonies of Texas.
I really enjoyed this chapter of the continuing story, and hope there are more to come!
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