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Cattle Valley 7 by Carol Lynne
Dec. 3rd, 2009 09:00 am
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
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Cover Art by April Martinez
Arm Candy (Cattle Valley 14) by Carol Lynne 
The Book: Joel Lingeman has been set adrift. Until recently, life was 'relative contentedness'; working for Congress, frequenting the Hill club a little too frequently, cooking dinner for two every night and routine sex on Sundays. Now Sam, his lover of fifteen years, has left him for a stunning twenty-three year old and he cannot score a trick in the sleaziest pick-up joint in town. Joel's revulsion for the politics around him has dissipated into mild amusement at the 'social Darwinists' ready to snatch the last cents from the hands of the old and ailing. And he is increasingly obsessed by the different lives he could have led. When a teenage fantasy reasserts itself, the blond haired demi-god his eye once fell upon modelling swimsuits in the back of an old magazine, Joel is overcome by a pervasive sense of loss and embarks on a quest to hunt down 'the Santa Fe boy'. Astutely observed and resonant with dark, sardonic undertones, Man About Town is an unforgettable novel about losing your way, your self-esteem and your security. 
The Author: "I am a health policy consultant, with 30 years of experience in providing policy and data analysis on a wide range of subjects, including Medicare and Medicaid, private health insurance reform, long-term care financing, and international comparison of healthcare systems. Recent clients have included the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the National Health Policy Forum, and the National Academy of Social Insurance. 
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The Book: Joel Lingeman has been set adrift. Until recently, life was 'relative contentedness'; working for Congress, frequenting the Hill club a little too frequently, cooking dinner for two every night and routine sex on Sundays. Now Sam, his lover of fifteen years, has left him for a stunning twenty-three year old and he cannot score a trick in the sleaziest pick-up joint in town. Joel's revulsion for the politics around him has dissipated into mild amusement at the 'social Darwinists' ready to snatch the last cents from the hands of the old and ailing. And he is increasingly obsessed by the different lives he could have led. When a teenage fantasy reasserts itself, the blond haired demi-god his eye once fell upon modelling swimsuits in the back of an old magazine, Joel is overcome by a pervasive sense of loss and embarks on a quest to hunt down 'the Santa Fe boy'. Astutely observed and resonant with dark, sardonic undertones, Man About Town is an unforgettable novel about losing your way, your self-esteem and your security. 
The Author: "I am a health policy consultant, with 30 years of experience in providing policy and data analysis on a wide range of subjects, including Medicare and Medicaid, private health insurance reform, long-term care financing, and international comparison of healthcare systems. Recent clients have included the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the National Health Policy Forum, and the National Academy of Social Insurance. 
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This is not a simple art book, it’s almost a memoir. Following Paul Richmond (see his post with me here 
This is not a simple art book, it’s almost a memoir. Following Paul Richmond (see his post with me here 