Tracy’s review of Make Mine a Bad Boy
THERE’S A NEW BRIDE IN TOWN!
Hope Scroggs is finally ready to get hitched. After years of sowing her wild oats, the former head cheerleader and homecoming queen has returned to Bramble, Texas, to marry her high school flame. But her perfect wedding plans are stomped to smithereens when her adoring cowboy two-steps down the aisle with someone else. Now Hope is stuck with the one man from her past she can’t shake: Colt Lomax, an irresistible bad boy whose sultry kisses are hotter than the Panhandle in August . . .
Colt lives for freedom and the open road; he never gets attached, never looks back. Still, he can’t forget the night of passion he once shared with Bramble’s sweetheart—a night he wouldn’t mind repeating. So, he piles on the Texas charm to tease the feisty beauty back into his bed, while she tries her darnedest to resist. But something unexpected is about to tie their fates together . . . and oh, baby, will it ever!
Hope is pretty put out by her sister up and marrying her “back-up plan” aka Slate Calhoun and she’s having somewhat of a pity party. But she lifts her chin and decides that there’s nothing she can do about it now so she’ll get on with her life. Right when she’s ready to do that, however, Colt Lomax walks back in to her life. Colt tells himself that he’s back in Bramble just to visit his sister, Shirlene, but he really wants to see Hope again, especially after that passionate night they recently spent out in LA.
But Hope isn’t as happy to see Colt and he thought she would be and since he’s teased her mercilessly since they were both young he just can’t stop himself from antagonizing her. But what do they really feel about each other? And when Hope finds out she’s pregnant where will that leave them?
I didn’t read book one in this series and I think that put me off the first part of the book. There were more than several references to things that happened in book one and I didn’t have a clue what they were talking about. I would recommend reading book one before you move into book 2. Once I got past my confusion the story was pretty entertaining.
Hope was the sweetheart of Bramble and could do no wrong but really, the way the townsfolk were portrayed it appeared they were dumber than dirt. More than a few times I wanted to crawl into the book and yell at the people and tell them to get a clue. But Hope was very confused. She wasn’t sure about her feelings for this twin sister (from book 1) that had shown up much less what she was feeling about the situation when her sister married Slate. Then there are her feelings for Colt that she’s never really admitted to herself and I found that confusing. I guess I can understand denying your feelings in public but to yourself? Can someone live in denial to themselves that long? I guess anything is possible. But I did feel for Hope as the town expected so much of her and she was just trying to live her life as best she could.
Colt was definitely a bad boy. He knew how to take the bad and go one step further. But he was really a nice person at heart. No, he didn’t want to face certain things and took off a couple of times to try to deal with his thoughts but he always came back – which gave him stars next to his name in my book. He had gone out and made something of himself and even though the town he grew up in still didn’t see him for who he was, he was really only trying to get one person to see him and that was Hope.
I think I would have liked to have seen how Colt and Hope could get along and be together before they had their HEA. Yes, they could have sex and be happy little campers but we were never really shown the pair together and being happy. Three quarters of the book had them antagonistic towards each other and the other half having sex. Though they cared for each other we just didn’t get to see enough of that side of their relationship.
Overall it was a cute story but a little redneck for my liking – not necessarily with Hope and Colt but definitely with the supporting characters.
Rating: 3.25 out of 5
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