Come Sundown by Nora Roberts

If you've seen me over the past few days, you'd know I've been ridic sick with one of the worst allergy attacks in ages.  I have a feeling this stupid weather (can someone get Mother Nature back on her meds, please?!), stress over the new teachers' insurance plan (speaking of meds, just ask one of us about it), and the insane schedule that is the end of the school year for a combination educator and parent left my immune system down.  Anyway, I told myself today would be take it easy and let yourself heal kinda day.  I skipped yoga this morning, did only the errands that were absolutely required, and then chilled on the couch with a book.  The plan was chill on the deck with a book, but it was too, ha, chilly.

So this was the book then.  I put this on request at WHPL so I'd get it as soon as it came in.  I'm kinda disappointed though. If you've followed this blog for a while, you know romance is not my cup of tea, but I tend to like Nora Roberts' stuff.  I was not a fan of this one.

Bodine Longbow runs a ranch.  Or so it seemed by the previews.  Bodine Ranch is a tourist resort in the middle of Montana.  It was NOT the ranch of most Western set romances.  Maybe that was the intention?  Anyway, Bodine's aunt Alice disappeared years ago after running away from home at 18.  Life went on without her and any mention of Alice brings mixed emotions from Bo's mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.  In reality, Alice is being held hostage nearby.  Raped and tortured by an alt-right wackadoodle, she finally escapes and returns home 30 or so years later.  Broken mentally, her return is not the joyous one her family envisioned.

Like I said, romance isn't really my thing, but I expect there to be more of it in a Nora Roberts book.  There was hardly any and I don't even mean typical "beach read" sex scenes.  The "romance" between Bo and ranch hand Cal seemed forced.  There was no spark.  There was more romance feeling in the sub-plot of Bo's awkward brother Chase courting event planner Jessica.  Sundown (the horse) totally steals the show.

Oh well.  Not every book can be a winner.  

Summer reading should be posted on the website soon, but you can find it here if you go back in my posts.  Watch for my own summer reading post soon!  It's going to be an eclectic mix!

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