Tracy’s review of The Care and Feeding of an Alpha Male (Bluebonnet #2) by Jessica Clare
Beth Ann needed a hero…
Beth Ann Williamson has finally had it with her on-and-off fiancé of nine years. The problem? No one in town seems to believe her when she says it’s really over. Now Beth Ann is determined to show the small town of Bluebonnet, Texas, that she can take care of herself. That means opening her own salon and not taking the help that her ex-fiancé seems determined to offer.
Of course, even the best laid plans go awry when she’s stranded in the woods in the middle of a downpour. Some independent woman she is. She can’t even find her way out of the woods without the help of a handsome, but scowling, Marine.
She got more than she bargained for…
A die-hard survivalist, Colt Waggoner’s none too pleased when he’s sent to find the town’s pampered princess. He’s even more annoyed when Beth Ann isn’t grateful for the rescue. Fine, then. He’ll just have to teach the sexy blonde a lesson–a weekend of roughing it out in the wild. Just the two of them, alone, in muddy, wet clothing that needs to come off…
But Beth Ann isn’t the spoiled princess he thought. And when she propositions him for a one night stand, he knows he should turn it down. Because this alpha male might need more than just one night in her bed to satisfy him…
Beth Ann was with her boyfriend for 9 years but during that time he cheated on her multiple times. She would break up with him, he would woo her back and then he’d eventually do it again. Why she stayed with him for 9 freaking years was beyond me. She finally got the balls to break up for good 10 months earlier. She’s started her own beauty salon in the town of Bluebonnet but no one knows why she broke up with Allan. The townspeople are constantly asking her when she’s going to marry that nice boy Allan, etc. and it goes on and on. Beth Ann is darned sick of it but no matter how many times she says she’s not getting back together with him the people just smile and move along, acting like they hadn’t heard her at all. Even Allan doesn’t believe that it’s for good – the slime.
One night Beth Ann is asked by her mother to go find her 17 year old sister who apparently has snuck out of the house to attend a Questmaster tournament. Beth Ann heads out into the rainy night but can’t find Lucy. The tournament eventually gets evacuated because of the rain but Beth Ann has no idea. In steps Colt who is a volunteer evacuator and a survivalist. He recognizes Beth Ann’s car and plans to go into the forest and teach her a lesson – apparently the two have never gotten along. (I didn’t read book 1 so I never actually saw them not getting along.) Colt tells Beth Ann that there’s no way out of the woods and they’ll have to spend the night. After one night though Colt realizes that he actually likes Beth Ann – he’s just lusted after her before this – because she’s got a backbone and goes with the flow – not the prissy girl he believed her to be at all.
After the first night they end up sleeping together and that pretty much starts the relationship. Throughout the book Colt is loving and caring and thoughtful and Beth Ann just soaks it up. The problems start when Beth Ann finds out that Colt lied to her about their first weekend together because trust is a big issue in her life as she never had any in Allan.
The story was pretty easy-going with Colt and Beth Ann relationship. The conflicts arose mainly from Beth Ann’s ex, issues with Beth Ann’s business and of course the whole trust issue. I really liked the story so much but I have to say there was just too much sex in the book for me. I enjoy sex scenes in books if it furthers the story but for me a lot of the scenes in TCaFoaAM were superfluous and I found it a bit annoying. I had a real issue with Beth Ann not standing up for herself with the people in the town and Allan himself – although she did tell him no repeatedly. I also would have liked to have seen Beth Ann’s parents reaction to Colt as they considered him to be poor white trash. Beth Ann’s mom said to Lucy that if Lucy were ever with one of “those Waggoner boys” it would give her father a heart attack. But then we never saw what happened when the parents found out about Colt and Beth Ann.
In the end though I thought it was a good story that I enjoyed very much. I definitely recommend this one if you’re up for a sweet sexy story.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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