Cowboy Bold

By: Carolyn Brown

Narrated by: Chelsea Hatfield

Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

With her sassy humor and sexy cowboys, USA Today best-selling author Carolyn Brown launches her new Longhorn Canyon series.

One city girl, one die-hard rancher, and eight mischievous kids. What could go wrong?

Every summer, Cade Maguire looks forward to opening his Longhorn Canyon Ranch to underprivileged city kids. But this year, he's having no luck finding a counselor for the children - until Retta Palmer walks through his door.

Flat broke after selling everything she owns to pay her father's medical bills, Retta is thrilled to hear of an opening for a counselor position. She's not as thrilled about the ranching part, or the sexy cowboy with beautiful blue eyes who's her new boss.

After being left at the altar two years before by his fiancée, Cade isn't sure he can take another heartbreak. And Retta isn't even sure she wants to stay. But the sparks between them are absolutely undeniable. And with a couple of lovable kids and two elderly folks playing matchmaker, Cade and Retta may find that the best way to heal is with each other.

©2018 Carolyn Brown (P)2018 Hachette Audio

Engaging Low Key Cowboy Drama

Cowboy Bold had a unique, heartwarming theme involving a ranch family that provides a free summer program for inter-city children. Cowboy Cade, his brothers and employees were generous and kind to under-privileged kids who had experienced very little human kindness in their short lives.

This would have been a 5 star novel if main characters Cade and Rhetta had more consistently mature personalities. They were wonderful competent when dealing with the kids but silly in their attitudes toward romance and careers. While most of the book was enjoyable - loved all the animals - I really wanted to bang Cade and Rhetta's heads together and tell them to grow the hell up.

Unfortunately the narrator made the adult characters sound too young; her voice, while pleasant, would be better suited for books about children or teens.

Not my definition of a “sweet” romance

A good story ruined by descriptive sex scenes not required to move the story forward. So disappointed. I keep hoping to find another gem like the author’s The Ladies Room and Trouble in Paradise, but. . .

Ho hum and kinda boring

This looked like a fun cowboy romance but it moves so slow and ended up being pretty boring. Don’t know if I’ll be able to finish it. I haven’t listened to any of this author before but maybe this is just too slow for me to stick with it.

There’s a lot of football references that I’m not really into. Besides a few rescue animals this ranch doesn’t seem to have much of anything else besides just moving hay around. Author doesn’t seem to know the difference between hay and straw, a big clue that she doesn’t know much about ranching.

Also, who keeps an intact female cat to have “ a few litters a year”? Doesn’t seem very responsible. You would end up with so many spraying and fighting Tom cats around trying to mate her, lots of cat screaming and fighting day and night, and then tons of kittens that turn into more unaltered cats. I don’t think this author knows anything about keeping unaltered cats!

Living on a ranch myself this doesn’t seem like anything real or reasonable. This isn’t a bad story but it isn’t a particularly good one either.

Don't Be Fooled!

Very disappointed. Bought this book as it was advertised as "clean and wholesome." Such a disappointment that it was not. Thought I had come upon a new clean series to enjoy. If Audible thinks this is what one expects from a "clean and wholesome" book, I will have to rethink my membership! I waited too long to listen to this book and missed the return window.

Not for me. I would say this book is Rated R.

Reviews can be deceiving but they can also be helpful. I read one that said this had family values. The problem with that is this book talked about going to church each week but the characters talked about sex being okay before marriage. That is not Biblical. Not sure what kind of church these people were going to but that is not okay. There is also at least one detailed sex scene. This is NOT a clean book. I guess no one said that it was clean, only that it had family values, not in opinion. If an author is going to write a book with casual sex being okay, than leave God out of it. I wasn't able to finish the book so not sure how it ends. I would say this book is Rated R. (for those who want to know)

The Story could have been great if it weren't for that. God and sex before marriage do not mix at all.

The performance was pretty good though. Well until I stopped the book.

Very nice: wonderful

The story is told very realistically!A wonderful, realistic, love story. I loved it very much!

Yeehaw!

I’ll admit I am biased-I have really enjoyed all of Carolyn Brown’s books, re-reading them several times. This one, and the the Longhorn Canyon series is one of my favorites.
Chelsea Hatfield brings the characters to life without being annoying. I highly recommend.
I disagree with the reviewers that feel the book is R rated. Yes, Cade and Retta get a little less than PG a couple of times, but no where near R rating.

Love all of Carolyn Brown’s stories

Not one of Carolyn Brown’s stories has left me disappointed, not one! Love them all!

Not worth the time

This was a poorly written book and just as poorly performed. Even the quality or the recording was bad. I would recommend skipping this and spending your time on something more enjoyable and better written.

Great book

The book was fantastic bit the voice actor used a monotone voice for Kade which I didn't like. She made him sound almost like a robot.