Cowboy Pride (Wild Wyoming Hearts #3)
Lacy Williams
"Everyone knows a rancher in possession of a large spread needs a wife." Lacy Williams is a USA Today bestselling author of the acclaimed Wyoming Legacy and Cowboy Fairytales series. About Cowboy Pride: First impressions count. Liza Bennett has two missions in life: keep the family’s shop afloat, and ensure her shy sister finds love. Sparks fly when she meets rancher Rob Darcy at a town dance, but when she overhears him insult her, she vows to put the man out of her mind. Rob Darcy is instantly attracted to the vivacious Liza but a lack of social graces and the promise he’s keeping ruin his chances of winning her. Once jilted, Janie Bennett is appropriately gun-shy of falling in love again. But she doesn't seem to be able to help herself when she meets charming Nathan Bingley. Bingley desperately wants a wife and family of his own. Can he trust that Janie returns his feelings? When Janie is injured in a spring storm, she and Liza are sequestered on Nathan’s ranch. Hearts and emotions get tangled, but will first impressions prove true, or false? Cowboy Pride is a Wild West version of Pride and Prejudice with dual love stories.
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Saw this on OverDrive as a big library read (giant online book club?) and decided spur of the moment to check it out. I didn't even realize it was a retelling of Pride and Prejudice until I read the first line!
Didn't love this retelling, though it was a quick read. It's been awhile since I read (most) of P&P, but here are my thoughts:
- Having Janie's perspective and story in my opinion rounded out her character and made the whole book heftier because there were two plots. I sort of liked have both Janie and Liza as main characters
- Have POVs of the men drove me nuts, because I think a lot of the tension and eventual resolution in P&P was not knowing how the men felt! Knowing up front that both of them are interested in both the women (though obviously it's a romance, duh) took some of the wondering away and caused the reader frustration because then the "reasons" they weren't together felt more contrived.
- Having more "action" (falling in the river and being saved, train hold-up) worked pretty well for this book, and was a bit nicer to read than some of the longer stretches in P&P, but I felt like A LOT was cut out from P&P
- Wickham being possibly redeemed or at least being done a favor by Darcy at the end was annoying and maybe was only done because this is a series? Not sure.
- I agree with some of the comments on the discussion board via OverDrive: Darcy was too nice and seeing his POV was nice in the romance book way but detracted from his appeal and mystery that the original had in spades.
- I would have liked more revealed about what happened to disgrace Janie, and also more than 1 sentence of what Liza's part in it was? This was something that kept being hinted and teased but had terrible payoff in my opinion.
- Darcy's sister's character sounded super interesting, wanted more of her! (Side note: looks like the first book of the Wild Wyoming Hearts series is about her!)
- Few typos and inconsistencies
Overall just very surprised that something that was a simplified version and that was not great was chosen as the Big Library Read?
(Now that I dig a little, looks like the book is chosen by vote, so that explains it.)
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