My Cowboy Promises
The Cowboys, Book #4
By Z.A. Maxfield
ISBN# 9780698175037
Author’s Website: http://zamaxfield.com/
Brought to you by OBS reviewer Heidi
Ryder Dent has been living a lie. He thinks he’s done well for himself, but he’s deceiving himself. He married Andi Chandler when she found herself pregnant and alone, the father of her baby a rodeo star that would never settle down with an underage buckle bunny. Ryder has never regretted his decision, he loves Andi, albeit it in a platonic way, and their son Jonas is his life! So what’s the problem? Ryder is gay, hiding his sexual preference behind a seemingly perfect family.
But when Ryder discovers a mutual attraction between himself and the new doctor in town and acts on it, he sees what he’s been missing. But once the truth is out there, he could lose everything he’s built up to this point, even his son.
This was an okay read, but honestly I felt the majority of the story really dragged on as the author was trying to give us Ryder’s background information. He’s a great loyal guy, willing to do whatever anybody needs, especially when his family is involved. He and Andi have a good relationship full of honesty and trust. She was the only one that Ryder felt safe enough to confess his big secret to. Until now.
But Ryder and Andi live in a small town full of closed-minded people and when his secret comes out, he very well could be shunned.
It was sad to see how various people responded to his news. I expected it from Andi’s self-important father, but the fact that his own dad had similar reactions was just plain sad. I realize that this scenario is one that plays out over and over again in the world today, it’s very disheartening, to say the least.
The pace of this story did pick up once Ryder and Declan’s relationship started heating up, but then the story seemed to move too fast. Everybody turning their back on Ryder, his life falling apart and then suddenly everything was fixed all in a few chapters. It almost seemed like the author had met her page limit and then was rushing to get to a conclusion, and the story didn’t feel complete.
Oh and it was nice to see Lucho and Tripp from the last book too:)
This novel can easily be read as a stand-alone, especially since the setting of the series shifted in this installment, introducing us to a whole new cast of characters.
