Sophia Rose Reviews: Talk Cowboy to Me by Carolyn Brown, narrated by Brian Hutchinson

 

Talk Cowboy to Me by Carolyn Brown, narrated by Brian Hutchinson

#4 Lucky Cowboys

Contemporary Romance

Publisher:  Recorded Books

Published:  4.22.25

Time:  8 hours 54 minutes

Speed: 1.2xs

Rating: 4 stars

Format: audio

Source: won

Sellers:  Amazon

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GoodReads Synopsis:

For Remington Luckadeu, The Double Deuce Ranch is the perfect place to raise his two boys. But some fiery woman is fighting him for it, and Remington is not sharing—no matter how the sparks fly when he and Adele O’Donnell are together

One cowboy. One cowgirl. One ranch.

Who will win the Double Deuce by the Fourth of July?

When Double Deuce Ranch has two prospective buyers, owner Walter Jones decides to let the two run the ranch together to see who comes out on top. Adele O’Donnell and Remington Luckadeau roll up their sleeves for the fight of their lives.

Ready to battle it out over cleaning stalls, milking cows, and training horses, neither expects the attraction that grows between them. Can the two of them change from enemies to more than friends? And what happens when Walter returns to find the two have come up with their own solution for who gets the ranch?

 

Sophia Rose Reviews:

The ranch is up for grabs and the seller has an unusual proposition for ownership.  Remy Luckideau and his nephews vs. Adele O'Donell and her daughters spending a month together on the Double Deuce to see who's still there when the 4th of July comes around. Both families need this new start and dig in to outlast the other.

Talk Cowboy to Me is the fourth in the Lucky Cowboys series about the Luckideau family with loose connections to a few earlier series (Spikes and Spurs, Burnt Boot, TX) featuring the O'Donell clans. It works well as a standalone, or out of order so don't be shy about snagging it up.

Remy has been a playboy cowboy all his life until he becomes the guardian of his deceased brother's two young boys. He needs a new start and needs to put down roots in a place where his reputation doesn't proceed him. His nephews are city kids so he must teach them a love of the land and ranching which is the heart of who he is. It's a complication he does not need that the competing buyer is feisty and luscious Adele O'Donell and her girls. Or maybe it's a complication exactly like he needs.

Returning to her roots and the ranching life she loves, Adele and her daughters are coming from a past of an ex who cheated and walked away wanting nothing to do with his daughters and this is their big chance to start over far from anyone who knows about all that nonsense. But sharing a ranch house and chores with the Luckideau boys and their attractive uncle make her realize that the rejection from her ex didn't break her as much as she thought. Suddenly she isn't so sure that winning is everything- or at least her idea of the prize might be changing as two families start to work as one.

Alright, this was a fun one. I felt so bad for both families and I wanted both to win the competition. In true Carolyn Brown fashion, the answer to the difficulty isn't that tough and it is fun for the two parties to work it out as they go along with daily ranch life, obliging family to point the way, and their own spark of attraction. I loved that this was two broken families becoming whole and being there to sort out trouble and blend their strengths. There is a good blend of the tender, the fun, and the passionate moments.

 

Brian Hutchinson was a new to me narrator, but it took but a blink and I was thoroughly settled into the story from both Adele and Remy’s points of view.  I thought the voicing of the children and older characters was also superbly done.

 

I missed out on the earlier stories of Remy's relations in the Lucky series, but I'll be going back of course and I can't wait to see where the next one in this new series heads. Maybe Adele's strong-headed sister Cassie? This book is for those who enjoy light yet a pinch spicy contemporary cowboy romance.

 

 

Author’s Bio:

Carolyn Brown was born in Texas and raised in southern Oklahoma. She makes her home in southern Oklahoma, a small town of less than three thousand people. She is a New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publisher’s Weekly and #1 Amazon and #1 Washington Post bestselling author. Her books have been translated into 21 foreign languages. Many of them are available in large print, as well as audible, ebook and paperbacks.

Her grandmother told her that if a person loves what they do, then they are a success—no matter if that job is ditch digging or sitting behind the desk in the oval office. She loves what she does, so she considers herself a success as she goes through the days, with quirky characters in her head, telling their stories, one by one.

She and her late husband, Charles, were married for 57 years and he was the love of her life, the father of her three children, and her biggest supporter. They share three children, fifteen grandchildren and too many great grands to count even if she took off her shoes.

When Carolyn is not writing she likes to travel with her family and plot out new stories.

Website:  https://www.carolynbrownbooks.com/

Sophia’s Bio:

Sophia is a quiet though curious gal who dabbles in cooking, book reviewing, piano-playing, and gardening. Road trips and campouts, museums and monuments, restaurants and theaters are her jam. Encouraged and supported by an incredible man and loving family. A Northern Californian transplant to the Great Lakes Region of the US. Lover of Jane Austen, Baseball, Cats, Scooby Doo, and Chocolate.

As a lifelong reader, it was inevitable that Sophia would discover book blogs and the joy of blog reviewing. Sophia is a prolific reader and audiobook listener which allows her to experience so many wonderful books, authors, and narrators. Few genres are outside her reading tastes, but her true love is fiction particularly history, mystery, sci-fi, and romance. Though, sorry, no horror or she will run like Shaggy and Scooby.

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