Cattle Valley 7 by Carol Lynne

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Arm Candy (Cattle Valley 14) by Carol Lynne

Reading a book in the Cattle Valley series is pretty much like meeting with an old friend and remembering all the common acquaintances. Plus, most of the time, the two men in centre stage are already known name to the reader and also their interaction, so, when the story starts, we are ready to see them going down to the core of the story. Sex usually arrives pretty much on chapter 1, but the nice thing of Arm Candy is that Mario, the arm candy, doesn’t want to put out so soon for Asa, the multimillionaire who will be more than willing to have him as boy toy since he doesn’t believe someone else could want him as lover without all his money.

Both Mario and Asa have prejudices against each other not for something they did, but for what people can think. Mario is young and handsome, and he has a bad past experience with his very beautiful mother who always used man for money, and so now he doesn’t see himself being only a boy toy for a rich man. He has prejudices against Asa even if the man has never treated him like a pretty Arm Candy, and Mario is always ready to think the worst about him. On the other hand, Asa doesn’t see himself interesting past his money; he is 43 years old, of average looks and not so much experienced in the fact of love. Asa’s strength is his brain, but that is not something you can expose, above all not with someone that doesn’t speak with him.

Anyway the disagreement between Asa and Mario has short life, and they are soon living like an old established couple; they don’t disagree on anything, and they pretty much think alike. The age difference is there but it’s more or less only a number, without any real consequence on their relationship: Mario grew up sooner than his age, and instead I have the feeling that Asa lived in his own world, and his emotional development got interrupted.

Arm Candy is a nice addition to the series, and being also a Thanksgiving story, it has the usual abundance of good feelings; it’s a nice and good love story.

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Amazon Kindle: Cattle Valley: Arm Candy

Amazon: Cattle Valley, Vol 7: Bent-not Broken / Arm Candy (Volume 7)
Paperback: 258 pages
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (December 3, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1907280758
ISBN-13: 978-1907280757

Series: Cattle Valley
1-2) Cattle Valley 1: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/211609.html
3-4) Cattle Valley 2: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/285655.html
5-6) Cattle Valley 3: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/326486.html
7-8) Cattle Valley 4: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/405427.html
9-10) Cattle Valley 5: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/528702.html
11-12) Cattle Valley 6: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/758931.html
13-14) Cattle Valley 7

Reading List:

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Cover Art by April Martinez

Comments

[starsinshapes.livejournal.com]

I swear if Cattle Valley were a real place, I'd move there. I want so bad to adapt this into a live-action tv show.

[erah-haruna205.livejournal.com]

i read these last year! really enjoyed! ^_______^ but i don remember until which series i read.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing this morning driving at home, it would be a tv show I'd really love to see

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

They are pretty much good and I think Carol Lynne will continue for a bit, there are still some characters she needs to pair off

[lorettasilks.livejournal.com]

I kind of find it funny Asa thinks of himself as average, from how Lynne had mentioned him in her previous works, he seemed anything but average if anything he appeared to be a big stud.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I had the feeling he was "imposing", but maybe it was not a phisical thing, maybe more "allure"