The Trouble With Cowboys Review

            Anytime I’m in the mood for a romance, Denise Hunter is one of my first picks. Her characters always have unbelievable chemistry between them, as well as believable obstacles keeping them apart, and The Trouble with Cowboys, the third in the Big Sky Romance series, is no exception. The book follows Annie Wilkerson and Dylan Taylor, both of whom readers of either of the first two books in the series will recognize. Annie has a problem—to attract more readers, she needs to change the column she writes for extra money into an advice column for lovelorn readers. The only problem is that she knows nothing about love or romance. Dylan needs help with his ailing horse and Annie is the best horse trainer there is so they decide that Annie will help him with his horse in exchange for help with her column.

            Dylan is attracted to Annie but she rebuffs him at every turn. Though she hates to admit it, she’s attracted to him as well, but a cowboy is the last kind of man she’d willingly fall in love with. Dylan works throughout the story to prove to her that her assumptions about all cowboys aren’t necessarily true and acts gallantly in several situations where a lesser man might have done otherwise.

            I enjoyed the pacing of this book and the fact that Hunter is such a master at getting the characters close and on the brink of love and then pulling them back again with some obstacle. I had already read the second book in this series, but I haven’t read the first and I’m planning to go out and buy that one whenever I get the chance. Denise Hunter has proven at this point that she’s capable of writing excellent romance after excellent romance, and she’s becoming one of those authors whose next book I’ll anticipate and probably buy soon after it releases.

Disclosure: I was given a copy of this book by the publisher for review purposes. I was not required to write a positive review.