“It’s amazing how two broken people can fix each other.”

I’m torn in the middle on this one guys! While it did have a main character and aspects that I loved, Grant is the reason why I couldn’t love it. I know, I know. Honestly, I did it to myself. I read a topic that I don’t normally like (widowed) because I love the Dodge family so much.

Mckenna Y’all, I loved her so damn much! Even with everything that she went through, this girl had the biggest heart. She was smart and knew what she wanted. The thing I loved the most about her is that she wouldn’t take less than she deserved. From anyone, even Grant.

“If she could love, after all this time, if she could want something other than the small, attempted cynicism she had tried to make for herself and call it a life, then why couldn’t he change, too?”

Grant. Oh, Grant. When I heard that the next book in the series would be about Grant I was excited. His story was more on the A Walk to Remember side.  He's known in town as the guy who married his girlfriend at 18 even knowing that she was going to die. I needed to know his backstory and about the man, he became to be. However, we meet Grant YEARS after his wife died. He was really getting to me with the amount that he pulled Mckenna in only to push her away again. Ya’ll this was bothering me so much. Don’t do one thing and then another and expect someone to be there when you decided to get your crap together! I get where he was coming from, but it seemed like he was set on being miserable!

We did get a lot of inner monologue than dialogue here and that made the book feel a little slow at times to me. I did like the message of the book as a whole. No matter your past, you can’t give up on your future. You never know what’s around the corner.

Next up is Bea’s story, and to say I’m excited is an understatement!

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I’m so happy Grant finally gets his HEA. He would hate to hear me say this, but I’ve just felt so bad for him every time he’s popped up in the previous books. And poor, broken McKenna was the perfect woman to give him his second chance.

Grant became a husband, and then a widower, at such a young age in a pretty small town. That has led to looks of pity and concern for almost half of his life. Out-of-towner McKenna has no idea why Grant is such a prickly cactus so she’s sassy and sarcastic with him from the start. That’s a refreshing change for Grant and, against his own wishes, he responds to that spunk.

McKenna has had quite a hard-knock life. She isn’t Miss Susie Sunshine, but she also hasn’t let it totally destroy her outlook on life. As much as she hates how her hopes always seem to be dashed, she can’t help still holding out for that hope of a better tomorrow. She’s more like Cynical Cindy, middle name Hope.

Regardless that both McKenna and Grant are shaking in their boots to have a “real” relationship that may fall apart, they can’t seem to stay away from each other. Even when their words tend to hurt one another. Most of the time those words are said in total innocence since they’ve kept certain aspects of their pasts under cover from one another, but still. Yet, as I said, they still find their way back with together over and over.

See my full review at https://allingoodtimeblog.wordpress.com/2018/10/12/a-tall-dark-cowboy-christmas-book-review/

Jun 2020 - audiobook