My Cowboy Heart Intermix edition by ZA Maxfield Literature Fiction eBooks
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Even the coldest cowboy’s heart can be ignited…
J-Bar ranch foreman Malloy pretty much keeps to himself—slinking around the edges of everybody else like an old coyote, doing his job and staying private. That is until Crispin Carrasco shows up. Lean, muscular, and with a motor mouth that won’t quit, Crispin sparks something in Malloy—something the foreman didn’t know was there. But how does a lone coyote approach the warmth of a fire? And more important, what would happen if that fire burned?
“Z.A. Maxfield has a lyrical way of writing that makes it easy to escape into the world that she creates for her characters.”—Night Owl Reviews
My Cowboy Heart Intermix edition by ZA Maxfield Literature Fiction eBooks
This is a beautiful romance that shows what love and family are all about. It is heartwarming and tender with some emotionally charged moments.Malloy had a very sad upbringing with a drug addicted mother who was always looking for the next man or the next fix. He largely had to fend for himself until Crandall Jenkins and his wife Emma took him in. They provided him with a job and a home on their ranch but most importantly a place in their family. Malloy's life largely revolves around the Jenkin's family, his role as foreman of the ranch and his need to earn Crandall Jenkin's love and respect.
Crispin has been through a terrible trauma and still bears the scars of his experience. Mr Jenkins offers him a place on the ranch and asks Malloy to keep an eye on the openly gay Crispin. This is the turning point in his life as Malloy's eyes are finally opened to the true man he is inside.
The scenes where Malloy first admits his feelings for another man are wonderfully done, with Malloy first facing the loss of his dream "I wasn't like Crandall Jenkins, and I'd never find an Emma. I'd never have what they had between them - not the home, not the kids, not the legacy, nor the love, nor the comfort of a lifelong partnership." but then realising this wasn't the end "It had only been moments since I'd thought about everything I'd lost, but now...now I could see what I'd gained."
Crispin is truly a strong and inspiring man. He sees so much of the truth in people and I really warmed to his character. It was easy to see why Malloy felt so passionately about the man. I enjoyed the build of the relationship and the very emotional connection they had as well as the extremely passionate sex.
The story follows the romance but also has a strong focus on family as Crandall gets sick and the family need to deal with the ramifications. We also get some insight into the other ranch hands, Eddie and Jim who have their own issues. (I can't wait to read their story in My Heartache Cowboy which is due Jan 2014). I guess Malloy's doctor had it right when he said "Are you living on a ranch or a telenovela?"
A lovely balance of deep emotional issues with moments of love and happiness!
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My Cowboy Heart Intermix edition by ZA Maxfield Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I'm not sure if this is the 3rd or 4th time I've read this but I'm sure I'll read it many more. Z.A. Maxfield is yet another one of my favorite authors. She has a skillful touch in both world and character building. I think I was shivering through most of the story, in spite of living in Florida. I was scenting crisp, cold air and viewing constellation-filled skies, right next to Malloy and Crispin.
Malloy was the quintessential cowboy. He's a taciturn, stoic loner with unbending loyalty to Crandall Jenkins, the man who took him in and gave him a home he'd never before had. Crispin Carrasco comes barreling into Malloy's little world and proceeds to break down fences that Malloy never even realized he had. I loved that Crandall himself was on page only a very little, yet he became a fully fleshed character through dialogue alone.
Jim and Eddie, Emma and, to a lesser extent her daughters, were well drawn also. It wasn't a hugely complex plot, yet the storyline was deeply satisfying. Following Malloy and Crispin's blossoming romance and the various character interactions made it riveting. Bonus! There's an adorable, rescued, three-legged border collie. A highly recommended romance read.
Let me say that it took me forever to finish this book (I bought it 1/31/15!) because the first few chapters I read were so boring, and the MC Crispin was SO weird to me, that the thought of reading 20-something more chapters (and an epilogue!) made me stay away from it. I finally decided to restart it a couple of days ago and finally finished. I’m glad I finished it, but it was NOT worth the $4.99 I paid for it, and it did NOT need to be 29 chapters long (30 with that non-epilogue).
My opinion of Crispin never changed, he was very weird; he had the ability to “listen and communicate” with animals and it was never fully explained how or why. He was also able to read people, but not just to the point of reading facial expressions, but practically knowing what they were thinking & feeling, but again the how & why was never clear. Often the things he said either didn’t make much sense or he would go back & contradict himself a couple of pages later. He was 25 but his maturity level would often flip back and forth between 40 and 12, and his emotions were all over the place. Sometimes he was shy & sweet, other times he was stable & mature, and then sometimes he could fly into near psychotic rage. Outside of being semi-neglected by his parents growing up and the incident when he was 8, I didn’t see why he was so emotionally damaged that multiple therapists and medications couldn’t help him at all (his words). In my opinion Malloy had more reason to be unstable/unhinged than Crispin did, but he wasn’t. Malloy was pretty much a loner who for some unknown reason was drawn to Crispin and couldn’t let go. They were good once they finally got together, but they didn’t really even start until 15 chapters in.
Other things I didn’t really like about this story were (MILD SPOILERS BEGIN HERE) 1) the fact that Malloy never got to say goodbye to Crandall Jenkins. I would’ve liked for him to see him & call him Dad at least once; 2) there was never any explanation of whether Jenkins had a will or not; 3) if Malloy really was the son the Jenkins’ never had (actually he was their foster son) then why was he not taken into consideration as to what to do with the ranch until he brought the idea to Emma Jenkins?; 4) if Malloy was their foster brother, why was it okay for Crandall’s daughters to flirt with him openly when they were growing up?; 5) if the ranch barely broke even every year, who paid for Malloy to go to college? It’s never said; 6) why exactly was Jen so hostile about Malloy getting Emma to open up in the hospital? Up until that point I’d had the impression that he had been welcomed & loved by the whole family and never treated like an outsider. Jen said he was nothing more than the “ranch foreman” when Emma called him Jen’s foster brother. 7) The epilogue only takes place a few months after the end. It’s very sweet, but it give no indication at all as to how the ranch was faring, how Jim and Eddie were doing, or how Emma and the family was doing. It literally could’ve have been left off.
This is a beautiful romance that shows what love and family are all about. It is heartwarming and tender with some emotionally charged moments.
Malloy had a very sad upbringing with a drug addicted mother who was always looking for the next man or the next fix. He largely had to fend for himself until Crandall Jenkins and his wife Emma took him in. They provided him with a job and a home on their ranch but most importantly a place in their family. Malloy's life largely revolves around the Jenkin's family, his role as foreman of the ranch and his need to earn Crandall Jenkin's love and respect.
Crispin has been through a terrible trauma and still bears the scars of his experience. Mr Jenkins offers him a place on the ranch and asks Malloy to keep an eye on the openly gay Crispin. This is the turning point in his life as Malloy's eyes are finally opened to the true man he is inside.
The scenes where Malloy first admits his feelings for another man are wonderfully done, with Malloy first facing the loss of his dream "I wasn't like Crandall Jenkins, and I'd never find an Emma. I'd never have what they had between them - not the home, not the kids, not the legacy, nor the love, nor the comfort of a lifelong partnership." but then realising this wasn't the end "It had only been moments since I'd thought about everything I'd lost, but now...now I could see what I'd gained."
Crispin is truly a strong and inspiring man. He sees so much of the truth in people and I really warmed to his character. It was easy to see why Malloy felt so passionately about the man. I enjoyed the build of the relationship and the very emotional connection they had as well as the extremely passionate sex.
The story follows the romance but also has a strong focus on family as Crandall gets sick and the family need to deal with the ramifications. We also get some insight into the other ranch hands, Eddie and Jim who have their own issues. (I can't wait to read their story in My Heartache Cowboy which is due Jan 2014). I guess Malloy's doctor had it right when he said "Are you living on a ranch or a telenovela?"
A lovely balance of deep emotional issues with moments of love and happiness!
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