A review by lezreadalot
Wild Trail by A.M. Arthur

3.0

Wes couldn’t help it. He fell for Mack a little bit, right then and there.

3.5 stars. A pretty cute cowboy-ish romance! Wes is a small-time actor, and Mack works as a hand on his grandfather's dude ranch. Flirtation turns to hooking up when Wes visits the ranch with his friends, and a romance develops from there. It was hot and there was a lot of well-written attraction and chemistry, even though some of it was the teeeeensiest bit cringey. We get introduced to a lot of secondary characters who are obviously going to get their own books, and the foreshadowing for said future books was honestly a bit clumsy at times. Kinda made me wish we concentrated a little bit more on fully Mack and Wes. But it was a fun time. I don't mean to make it sound like their relationship didn't get development, because it did. I really appreciated how things turned out in the last third. The conflict that you think is coming ends up not being a huge deal, and the ending got action-y and almost a little romantic suspense-y? And I appreciated that it was just different than what I expected. I've read from this author before and didn't super love those books, so I'm pleasantly surprised to have liked this, even if I didn't love it. It just fell a little flat in places I expected it to pick up.

Listened to the audiobook as read by Greg Boudreaux, who's super talented and does a good cowboy drawl (imo, anyway). I miiiiight continue the series? I do wanna see Miles and Reyes and their romance.