Need to preface this review by saying I’m not really the target audience for this book, with this being a cowboy romance, having the enemies-to-lovers trope and a brute mmc, which did influence the way I felt about this book. I can see how this can be great for others, but it just didn’t work for me.

First of all, and I know this has nothing to do with the actual story, but I hate that the book’s title is the mmc’s name when the story mainly revolves and starts with the fmc. Second of all, we get it, they hate each other and Mollie doesn’t want to stay at the ranch while Cash doesn’t want Mollie there. This is repeated so often and it was unnecessary, it felt like more like a case of tell not show when there were another ways for the reader to understand they hated each other without explicitly stating the obvious.

Something that I noticed and hated is that Mollie starts to get soft around Cash by the way he’s gentle around his people, how much he cares about his family and it turns out he’s not as much of an asshole as she thought. He, on the other hand, starts to notice her more because of her body, her “long flawless legs” and her “full lips”, and he only starts to care about her as a person when he (emotionally) hurts her. Talk about a double standard here.

The sex scenes were horrendous and I actually recoiled reading them. So much use of the word pussy and sometimes unnecessarily so, I promise the reader knows what’s happening and what the characters are talking about without having to repeat it over and over again. Sometimes it was also just awkward? And don’t get me started on the pet name honey, I very much personally hated and also thought it was overused.

Despite everything that I hated, I did enjoy seeing them get closer and start to bond and seeing them care about each other, even if showing it in questionable ways.