Reviewed by Stephen K
TITLE: Cowboy Logic
AUTHOR: B.A. Tortuga
PUBLISHER: Turtlehat Creatives
LENGTH: 278 Pages
RELEASE DATE: July 27
BLURB:
When Anderson “Logic” Whitehead gets a call from his sister that she’s in a dangerous situation, he leaves his California home to head back to Texas for the first time since high school. He’s a different man now, a well-known author and creator, as well as out and proud, so he’s not about to let anyone intimidate him, whether his sister’s stalker or an old nemesis from his bad old days.
Cowboy Jericho Yeager has his land, his kids, and a lot of conflicting emotions about his hometown. When his neighbor Bailey starts having trouble with what his daughter calls a “bad man” Jericho mounts up to help, but he doesn’t find a stalker, he finds Logic, who used to be a skinny, pimply kid. Now Logic is everything Jericho could ever want, but he knows he can’t just grasp the brass ring.
Guys like Logic don’t fall for men like Jericho, and relationships that begin under high stress never last. At least that’s what Jericho tells himself. Logic is used to going after what he wants, so he’s wiling to ask Jericho to give him a try, but even he’s not sure he can get past all of their history with each other, and with their deep East Texas hometown.
REVIEW:
As a 20 year Manhattan resident who used to make the pilgrimage every couple of years back to the small town I left in order to be me, I’m a sucker for country boy coming home stories. I was never skinny nor effeminate, and though I was never bullied, I gotta admit that small town Michigan in the 70 was no place to be a gay boy. Given that, this tale of Anderson “Logic” Whitehead struck a chord.
Add in a good hearted, well read, cowboy single-father. and we’ve got the makings of a great heart-warmer here. The author tells a good story and it’s clear that she knows whereof she writes. She also throws in some really funny bits. I could so imagine these guys playing “strip Mario-carts.”
I did have to chortle at the whole “friend who sells sex toys at a tupperware-style party” bit. It made wonder just what the “hostess gift” at such a party might be and it reminded me that Texas once had a law on the books making possession of 5 or more dildoes a felony. (Should that be dildos? – Some say potato others say potatoes)
Ms. Tortuga takes a jab at copy editors at one point… “G*d*mn editors and the insistence that sh*t make sense.” But it’s clear from the quality of the prose here that either she employs a good copy editor or is one herself. And yet… I did want to complain when Bailey corrects Amanda. “We broughted tea and desert” for mixing up desert and dessert rather than fixing the broughted; but by that point I was willing to let her have that one.
The sex here is mostly fade to black but that’s what one should expect when there are young children in the house.
Overall, this is a pretty low-angst sweet tale of second chances and m/m romances. It’s a fast and enjoyable read and it seems like the characters get the happy ending they richly deserve. Of course that a bit sad for us, because we’ll probably not see much more of these two and I definitely enjoyed spending time with these folks.
RATING: 
BUY LINK: