holding the reins (silver pines#1) by paisley hope
Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for the ARC of this novel.
I am in my cowboy romance reading era so when I saw the cover of this book I was all in. Unfortunately this book didn’t work for me. I didn’t bond with the decision making of the heroine. I found myself to be super annoyed with her a lot of the book. There were some repetitive aspects in sentences that I had a hard time with. And honestly I just could not with Cece.
There was a lot of smut in this book. And honestly, I read basically anything that I vibe with and there have been plenty of smutty books that I’ve vibed with just fine. This one was not one of them.
This felt like a book with too many tropes. Nash is a cowboy. He’s a hockey player. He’s loaded. He’s her brothers best friend. It’s a forbidden romance because he’s practically family. One likes relationships and the other one doesn’t. Cece and Nash are childhood enemies… so it’s enemies to lovers. It’s a lot. And it’s too much to be done well.
Overall, as we can tell, this one was not for me.