Cowboy's Pride

Welcome to Covendale, Book 1

By: Morgan Blaze

Narrated by: Gwendolyn Druyor

Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

The hardest second chance they'll ever take.

For six years, Sydney Davis has completely avoided the man who broke her heart. Now she needs a favor, and ranch owner Cam Thatcher is the only one who can do it. She thought she was over him - but when she sees him again after all this time, her powerful attraction returns stronger than ever.

Cam wants nothing to do with the woman he used to love - especially when he finds out she's marrying the man who's trying to destroy him and take his ranch. But he soon realizes his feelings aren't as buried as he thought. When he learns Sydney doesn't know about her fiancé's dark side, he races to stop her from making the biggest mistake of her life.

Heat level: Steamy. Standalone book, no cliffhangers.

©2015 Morgan Blaze (P)2016 Morgan Blaze

justice and truth finally

I like that good prevailed over evil in the end, but it was a long time coming !!! Lots if wake up calls before justice is served. Sickening how people are so willing to believe the worst about someone down on their luck ,but happily believe lies that sound pretty. Smh. I voluntarily listened to a free copy of this and am giving an honest review. The narrator did a good job bringing it to life.

Sweet Second Chance to Love

This was my first Morgan Blaze's book. This is the first book in the Welcome to Covendale Series, a standalone story. Sydney and Cam's story is a sweet second chance to love. The storyline is filled with secrets, a little suspense, and twists and turns. The secondary characters are great. Gwendolyn Druyor did a great job with the narration. I enjoyed it. I was given a free review copy of the audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

the broody cowboy wins the girl!

Sydney Davis had a major crush in high school...until she asked him to a dance and he laughed at her! She’s despised him ever since. Now grown up and about to be married to the town ‘prince’, Sydney has to swallow her pride to ask Cam to rent his carriage for her wedding. The encounter didn’t go that well...at least Sydney will get her carriage. That said, Sydney felt a spark after that encounter, well several more encounters...that can’t be right!
Cam Thatcher has been struggling to keep the family ranch ever since his father passed away a couple of years ago and his mother left him alone. Now, with imminent foreclosure, he’s fighting off a wolf...the town’s local business man and bully...incidentally Sydney’s soon-to-be father-in-law. With Boyd Lowell and his son, Tommy, spreading rumors, Cam has become the town pariah. Will he stand by and watch the girl he’s always loved make the biggest mistake?
This is a sweet story of a misunderstood cowboy and the one who got away...and some drama with a small town bully! Great narration by this new-to-me narrator. Looking forward to the next book in this series!
I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Mixed

The plot of the story was really interesting. I love the way everything unfolded until the last few chapters. I wish the author would go back and re-think the resolution of the conflict. It was much too simplistic and rushed.

It almost felt like someone handed a high school student a well written story up until the arc where the resolution was to begin. The student just wanted to quickly end the story tying everything into a neat bow using the fewest words possible. What you end up with is a completely implausible ending. :(
Someone was obviously on a deadline! Too bad...it had real promise.

This book kept me up until 3am

This is a awesome and amazing book, so much so I was up listening until 3am. Just had to know what else was going to happen. Simply love this book. .

Great read and terrible narration..

I first read this on October 15, 2015 and recently got into a book-funk so I decided to read something I’d already read, and listen to it since I found it one audible. And I enjoyed it as much the second time as I did the first, ((except for the listening part.))

Everything about this book was wonderful, ((except the listening part.)) Without all the angst and misunderstandings you get in most love stories. It was about a love that was a long time coming. I just loved Cam and Sydney, but boy, what an a$$ and a nice person Cam’s mother was, both at the same time. I liked Sydney’s friend Luka, too. And Tommy and Boyd got just what they so richly deserved. I love to read about greedy-a$$ men getting what’s coming to them.

There was a little sexual tension in this book and some terrific sex scenes. There was swearing and the F-bomb was released 5 times.

I got this book through KU.

As to the narration: Pretty terrible. She couldn’t make up her mind whether she wanted to make the men sound a little manly or just said the heck with it and let them sound like girls, so 95% of the time Cam WASN’T manly sounding at all. And with Deputies Nick, Byron and Dean the narrator didn’t care at all, they all sounded like girls, all the time, as did Tommy and his father Boyd. With it being narrated in 2016 I thought it would be fine since enough readers complain about the narrators sounding to manly for females or too feminine for men and they would try harder. I guess I was wrong. One other reviewer said this, “Gwendolyn's voice is amazing and so "clean and crisp" as she changes her voice for each character. Her tones were so sexy during the steamy parts! Each character she portrays was totally believable.” Ummmm, NO! She never changed her voice for anyone and when Cam and Sydney made love it sounded just like 2 women.
I gave her 2 stars because she did read with a little emotion.