Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Stable Hand
SERIES: The Braided Crop Ranch, Book One
AUTHOR: AE Lister
PUBLISHER: NineStar Press
LENGTH: 304 pages
RELEASE DATE: November 2, 2020
BLURB:
Book One in The Braided Crop Ranch series. BDSM/MMM/Erotic romance.
The Braided Crop Ranch is looking for stable hands. But this is no ordinary horse ranch. They cater to men with a certain interest. An interest involving harnesses, tails, and trainers.
Managed and expertly run by registered psychologist, Adam Marsland, the Ranch is a safe place for the expression of sex positive and kink positive needs and fantasies.
Jensen Moriarty is desperate for a job. He can handle horses. In fact, he’s a pro at it. Too bad the BCR doesn’t deal with real horses. But they do have “ponies”.
If Jensen can wrap his head around what the BCR actually stands for, he may have the opportunity to expand his resumé and experience something completely unexpected in the process.
~ A BDSM cowboy story about men who like to play pony, and the trainers who indulge them.
REVIEW:
This was definitely something new for me. I had read a few books that fell into the kink of role play but this book took me on a whole new journey.
Jensen Moriarty sets out for a new job on a ranch a long ways way from home that his friend recommended him for. He’s done with college but just can’t seem to grasp onto the idea of being a numbers guy. He longs for the simpler life of tending for the horses at a ranch. He knows he’s good at it and it’s pretty mindless, just what he needs while he tries to figure out what to do with his life. What Jensen never guessed was that he wasn’t hired to work with horses at a working ranch but with ponies, naked human ponies! The BRC is a kink ranch and he was hired to groom the ponies. What he never expected was that he would become attached to not one but two of these mystical men.
I admit I was challenged by this book. The level of the role play was much more intense than I have read before. And I admit that Jensen, Luke and Noah really grew on me and made me hope more for them. That’s the part I’m having the most conflict with. I grew attached to these characters and then felt like the author just dumped me. Yes there is a HFN ending but it seemed rushed and unfulfilling. Then I read the teaser for the next book and I know that it will head back to the ranch but with new characters in the lead at least. For the ending I would have liked at least an epilogue at least. I’m feeling a bit lost and short changed.
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