Western Heat by Caroline Richardson
2.75 Stars!!
Thank you NetGalley/the publisher for a complimentary copy of the book for review. Thoughts and opinions are my own.
Overall, the premise of this was great. But this book just didn't do it for me, unfortunately.
While Jake and Liz had some great smexy times, I felt like their chemistry was mostly wrapped up in said smexy times. Like outside of that, they were okay, but I didn't quite buy a connection that we were supposed to root for. Although I will admit that maybe I missed some stuff because I started skimming, but still.
I did like Jake trying to figure a way out of this, and I did feel like Tanner was unreasonably harsh. Not denying he had a legitimate reason to be upset, but taking it out on Jake, who was just as blindsided was unfair. And then when he figured out what was going on with Liz and Jake, and Tanner had no right to step in like that.
This book seems like it needed another editing pass or three. There was a lot of random spaces, punctuation was missing and/or added and sometimes it seemed like words were missing too. The paragraphs also were basically running together and honestly the book physically difficult to read. Which is a big part of why I started skimming. I might give this a shot when it physically releases, but I don't know.
This book releases January 6, 2026.
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