Reviewed by Danielle
TITLE: Buck Me
AUTHOR: Andrew Grey
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 251 Pages
RELEASE DATE: November 14, 2023
BLURB:
Emmett McElroy is the cowboy horses hate. When his heir apparent brother dies and his father has a heart attack, he does his duty and steps up as head of the family ranch, but he wishes things were different and his life choices were his own. Just when he begins to get his legs under him, he arrives home to find his high school crush has been hired as ranch foreman.
Ex-rodeo cowboy Nathaniel Zachary desperately needs work. When Mrs. McElroy offers him a job while her husband recovers, he jumps at it. The only issue is Emmett… because Nathaniel has never been able to get his best friend’s brother out of his mind.
Tensions only increase when, after drowning his sorrows, Emmett foolishly agrees to enter a bucking bronc contest at the local rodeo. The attraction that grows as Nathaniel helps prepare Emmett for the contest is something neither of them expected, but as Emmett’s father’s health improves, the happiness they’ve built may break faster than a cowboy thrown from the meanest bronc.
REVIEW:
It is always nice to pick up a new book from author Andrew Grey. Over the years I have been reading so many and it gives me a warm feeling inside. He was one of the first authors that I found when I started reading MM Romance. And one of the first authors I had the pleasure to meet and gush over 😀 but that being said back to this release.
For me it felt a bit like Andrew Grey was going back to his roots with this cowboy romance. It was good to be back on a ranch/ farm again!
As a reader you can feel Emmett’s struggle in keeping up appereances and standing up to his father and the memory of his brother.
Bringing (back) Nate into the mix, you feel the tension between them within seconds. As a reader you are waiting for what is going to happen and who is going “to give” so to speak.
I loved the connection between both men. The way they handle things and how they came together to fight for what is right.
I would lie if I said that I didn’t have a problem with Emmett’s father Dustin to a part that it even really began to irritate me, the way he was acting and the longer it continuid.
A special mention to Martha because she and her daughter Marianne are hilarious, they made me smile and I loved the camaderie and easyness between all of them, especially Emmett.
The end and the epilogue was nice and gave us as readers a nice look into their future and how things were going, a very welcome edition to this book for sure.
One thing made me wonder though are we going to see Reid turn up somewhere in a future book? I for sure would love to read his story 😉
Overall this is a nice read, the writing is flawless as expected by Andrew Grey and it will bring you a nice couple of hours of reading.
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