Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage

genre: contemporary romance

Emmy has come back to her hometown in Meadowlark, Wyoming because it's the only place that feels like a choice after an upsetting accident has made being on a horse impossible. Of course, going home means seeing Luke Brooks, her brother Gus's best friend.  Luke has always been a complete idiot except now, he seems like more than that.  And because he works at her dad's ranch, Emmy cannot get away from him.  But maybe she doesn't want him to.

OK OK.  It's instalove.  It's super cheesy and cliche open door steamy scenes and predictable as heck.  But also, I read it all fast and enjoyed myself enough.  And it's cowboys and dive bars and there is sort of a ranch-family-vibe that I appreciated.  While there is really nothing deep here, there IS Emmy having to get over her mental block to get back on a horse and I liked that thread.  I actually think I liked all the ancillary characters enough that if there are books about them, I'd read them if I had a hankering for this sort of brain candy.  But dang, some legit typos really were annoying and made me wonder what happened to the editor.  2.5 stars.

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