I started to read the Cattle Valley-series on a whim ages ago. I liked the first... ten-ish of the books, then it began to sort of drag.By now, whenever I read a new book, I can hardly remember the characters mentioned. It's just gone on too long. Too much of a good thing, sort of.This was probably the biggest disappointment of all of the CV books for me personally. It has my favorite couple (well, menage) in it, but that doesn't really mean anything, I'm sad to note.The book jumped from one thing to another too much. Instead of trying to put two separate stories into the same book, it would've been smart to publish them as short stories instead. The feel of two stories crammed together to get it to novel length was there all through the book.Whenever I got a glimpse of the menage I was looking forward to reading about again, they had either Huge Family Drama going on, or they were having sex. Now, don't get me wrong, sex is okay. Rio/Nate/Ryan-sex is excellent but.... yeah.Oh and the corn on the cob thing? It wasn't sexy. There's playing with food and playing with food, and this wasn't the sexy kind. It felt like the author either thought it was sexy (and that's okay, I'm sure I write about stuff I find hot but others don't all the time) OR she wanted to add the "funny" punchline to the end of that particular scene. Conclusion? This was disappointing. Solid writing, but I am beginning to care so little about the characters, especially when I can't remember half of them anymore and the story is constructed like this one was, that I might not bother for the next book. I was reading in the beggining of this Book, Carol Lynne saying that some of her readers didn't like the relationship between Ryan, Nate and Rio and some loved their relationship. I was one of the readers that when I saw this book was about them, I though to myself... Another book of them? The last book of them, I really didn't enjoy (since there was another guy intruding on their relationship), but this one was a wonderful read. The strugles that Ryan had to overcome because of his childhood and the suport he got from Nate and Rio were overhelming.The only thing I really didn't like on this book was the scene with the corn - yuck!BUT I TOTALLY LOVED THE STORY
What do You think about Alone In A Crowd (2012)?
Love to get more of Nate, Rio, and Ryan's story.
—Ash
I will read about Ryan, Rio & Nate any day!
—ronnie
