TWO STORIES IN ONE: AN ALL-NEW SARA RICHARDSON NOVEL PLUS SAVED BY THE COWBOY BY A.J. PINE “Filled with humor, heart, and love, this page-turner is one wild ride.” — Jennifer Ryan, New York Times bestselling author on Hometown Cowboy Can this cowboy be tamed? Everly Brooks is finally living her dream. Renting a farm in Topaz Falls, Colorado, is the perfect antidote to her high-stress life back … antidote to her high-stress life back in San Francisco. It’s the ideal place to raise chickens, grow veggies, and run her farm-to-table restaurant. There’s just one problem: her new landlord. Mateo Torres is a handsome-as-hell bronc rider who oozes charm, melts hearts-and plans to kick Everly off the farm . . .
Mateo has dreams, too. He’d bought that land as an investment, so he could take care of his mom and sisters, which means Everly has to go. Unfortunately for him, this former big-city girl is just as stubborn as the broncs he rides. When his trailer floods and forces him to move into Everly’s farmhouse, things between them really start to heat up. Sure, living under the same roof might not be the best way to settle their dispute over the land. But when two rivals share everything-from heated words to scorching kisses-it’s definitely the hottest.
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Everly Brooks is living what she believes is her dream, a small café, some chickens, a goat, a small garden, a few ducks and hopefully, she will be able to buy the farm she is renting one day. That all changes when Mateo Torres bronc rider buys the land with ideas of investment. Wanting to turn it into condos. Not being back in the town in a while he is surprised to find that Everly has everyone by the heart and the stomach. People don’t just come for her coffee, but also for her food and pastries. Now fighting with a woman he figures without talking to her is going to go back to San Francisco, is surprised and shocked when people in the town begin to turn on him when they find out that he wants to kick her out. This is of course after she has him come into the house to live because his trailer gets flooded. When she overhears what he is going to do and not really from him she tells him to leave. Torres keeps thinking like he is getting the bad end of the deal, but all he is thinking about is himself really, and it is not until he realizes he wants, more that he decides to change and go to Everly. Some funny moments and some fun characters, overall not a bad story. I received this book from Netgalley.com I gave it 4 stars. Follow us at http://www.1rad-readerreviews.com
This author just sucks me in every single time. The chemistry between Everly and Mateo is undeniable, although they spend the majority of the book trying to deny it themselves. It’s fun and, at the same time, tense to watch.
From the outside, it would seem Mateo is a womanizing man-whore who only cares about himself. That’s only because Mateo doesn’t let anyone see the real person inside. He shares just enough of his personal life so his closest friends think they know all there is to know. Yet he keeps so much more under wraps making him seem like a not-so-great guy. He’s fine with that. In fact, that’s they way he likes it. Until he starts spending more and more time with Everly and finds himself telling her things nobody else knows about him with no real thought as to why he keeps opening up to her.
Everly also finds herself letting down her guard with Mateo in a way she hasn’t with anyone ever, especially in the last few years since her life took a complete 180. While Everly has been hurt badly in the past, and she knows Mateo is more than likely going to crush her heart, she is drawn to him like nothing else. What I adore about her is she is so understanding with Mateo’s plight. She doesn’t like what he’s doing and how he goes about telling her things, but since she does have some insight into his real life, she understands his position. Yes, she’s upset. But she realizes pretty quickly that it does her no good to be angry with him.
To watch both Everly and Mateo circle each other is a joy. There is something so innocent about their shaky friendship. Mateo cannot help but to help Everly out at the farm, although it makes no sense for him to do so. He’s drawn to her and wants to help her while also knowing he’s going to destroy her. Everly cannot help but be touched by the little things Mateo does for her even when she wants to keep him firmly in the “bad guy” category.
I look back at last summer and am so glad I decided not to skip this author’s Hometown Cowboy that was included in the edition of Carolyn Brown’s Luckiest Cowboy of All I was reading. (I almost did due to timing issues.) I found an amazing author that I’m loving more and more.
This review can also be found at https://allingoodtimeblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/28/true-blue-cowboy-rocky-mountain-riders/
5 Stars for “True-Blue Cowboy” ARC Review
I absolutely loved this book and the cowboys! Mateo and Everly pulled me in to their story from the beginning. I couldn’t put it down and finished it in one night. Besides their love story there is action and obstacles to overcome.
I highly recommend this book and the “Rocky Mountain Riders” series.
Book 1: Hometown Cowboy
Book 2: Comeback Cowboy
Book 3: Renegade Cowboy
Book 4: True-Blue Cowboy
Book Review: 4,5 Stars
Cowboy book boyfriend alert!!!
WOW!! Just WOW!! I love to find these kinds of stories, full of love, passion, awesome characters and one beautiful happily ever after!! True-Blue Cowboy captivated me with the beautiful soul of Everly, and the golden heart of Mateo. And I’m so happy with the outcome of their love story.
Everly was a lawyer back in San Francisco but her bright future was ruined and she was forced to start all over again. Three years later she is living a simple and quiet life in a small town in Colorado, running a farm and a cafe, and building a great and meaningful relationship with the people in town. One of her friends set her up with Mateo Torres, the sexy cowboy in town. And it was a disaster of a date— Well, kind of… But things got complicated when Mateo purchases the land where the farm, the house, and the restaurant is and he has plans very different from the plans Everly’s.
I cried and laughed and sighed with this book. Everly cares so much for her friends and the people in the town. She has found happiness and a true meaning in life in what she does in the farm and the restaurant. But she hasn’t completely moved on from what happened all those years ago in San Francisco— and her parents don’t help either, UGH —but Mateo *SIGHHHHH* came with his crazy plans and destabilized everything for her!! IN A VERY GOOD WAY!! But at first, it didn’t look like it, and that was what kept me stick to this book.
I loved the plot of True-Blue Cowboy , the characters were simply amazingly developed and the conflict in their story was greatly built and beautifully solved.
Highly recommended.
I just love the characters that Sara Richardson writes! Everly and Mateo completely stole my <3! I loved every word on every page, and can't wait to return to Topaz Falls!
Everly is finally doing something she loves when Mateo comes into her life things seem to be going against everything she has planned. Mateo will stop at nothing to do everything for his family. Can they both do what they love and protect their hearts?
I really enjoyed the books I have read in this series and this book did not disappoint. I really loved the friendships. I loved how a town can rally around each other and support each other. I really enjoyed how sweet, independent Everyly is she is hands down one of my favorite characters in this series. I really also loved reading about Kenna and I hope that she has a story coming one day. This book seemed like it flew and was a real page turner, I was kind of sad to see it end I can’t wait for more. If you have never read any book in this series you can’t go wrong.
I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley. I was under no obligation to post a review and have given my honest opinion.
Mateo knows his way around stubborn animals, but’s he clueless when it comes to feisty women. Everly is one complication he doesn’t need. She is as stubborn as a mule, but as tempting as the land is rugged. A big city girl with a love for the simple life, Everly sets out to make herself happy. When that goal finds her in Colorado working on a farm, she starts to make plans. Those plans do not include bullheaded cowboys. Mateo may be easy on the eyes, but a pain in every other sense. How can she possibly be attracted to a jerk? Prepare to be charmed by True-Blue Cowboy. Richardson puts ego to the test between a firecracker of a city girl and a hard headed country boy. Who will win this call of the wild? A side-splitting, heartwarming, irresistible good time.
A sweet, feel good read. Loved the chemistry between Everly and Mateo. Everly’s family of animals were an enjoyable addition to story.
I voluntarily reviewed an ARC received via NetGalley.
True-Blue Cowboy is the fourth book in the Rocky Mountain Riders series about Raines’s Renegades.
Gunner Raines took Mateo Torres under his wing when Mateo was 16 and taught him the art of bronc riding. As a champion rider, Mateo had been supporting his younger sister in college and sending money to his mother and other two sisters’ in Mexico. Lately he has begun to realize he needed to ensure his financial future outside of the rodeo circuit.
During the off season, Mateo purchases a piece of property for development in the Colorado Mountains in the small town of Topaz Falls. The property is currently home to Everly Brooks who has a small farm that supports the popular local restaurant on the property.
As Mateo learns more and more about Everly, the farm animals, the restaurant and the life Everly has created, he begins to question his development plans for the property.
Sara creates an enjoyable read with likable characters that I highly recommend.
Everly Brooks is making big changes in her life, she’s saying goodbye to the glitz and glamour of the city, and saying hello to the countryside in Colorado… it’s a big step, but a step in the direction to her dream. She wants to grow her own produce, raise her own chickens, and take that farm fresh product and put it on the tables of her new restaurant, but before it really starts taking shape she hits a minor roadblock, a sexy roadblock at that! When she learns that her new landlord has big plans for the land she is renting, she is beside herself, she thought she left all the drama back in the city… and if fighting over the land wasn’t bad enough, now she has to fight panty-melting advances from him too!
When Mateo Torres waltzes back in to town and discovers that a stubborn beauty has moved onto his land and has big plans for it, he knows he is going to have a fight on his hands. His plan was to strike a deal with some developers and put together a beautiful, profitable resort on the land, that would support his family. But now he realizes that a city girl has decided to move to the country and try her hand at gardening and farming and has every intention of doing it on his land, which will happen over his dead body. But maybe, just maybe there is a compromise on the horizon…
True-Blue Cowboy is the latest installment in the Rocky Mountain Riders series, and it is every bit as amazing as the novels it follows, the characters were perfectly crafted, the story line was absorbing, and Ms. Richardson’s wonderful words left an favorable impression!! There was so much to like about this tale, the heroine and hero really brought their a-game, both were stubborn as heck, but both were not immune to the charms of the other, which meant there was a lot of angst… and A LOT of smoldering heat!! With each page I turned the deeper I fell into their delightful little world, where they kept me thoroughly entertained, made me feel right at home, and had me dreading our goodbye… but when the time came I walked away with a happy heart! Highly recommend this one!!
I requested an advanced copy of this title, and I am voluntarily leaving my honest opinion.