Strong Enough

Meet Me in Montana, Book 4

By: Kelly Elliott

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Grace Grant

Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins

Publisher's Summary

The fourth and final novel in New York Times best-selling author Kelly Elliott’s Meet Me in Montana series fires up the passion in a story about forgiveness and finding your soul mate.

Dirk Littlewood had the world at his feet and a life he claimed to love. He was a world-champion bull rider with plenty of women to keep his nights busy and make his inner loneliness nothing but a delusion.

Dirk’s life was exactly how he wanted it.

Until it wasn’t.

The moment Merit Eden showed back up in Hamilton, Montana, everything was turned upside down. Life changed immediately, and then tragedy struck.

Merit was the only woman who could bring Dirk to his knees - and the only woman who could heal his broken past. If only he’d let her in, they could heal each other in the process.

The only thing left for Dirk to do was figure out how to not only forgive himself, but accept forgiveness from the only woman he had ever truly loved...if only he was strong enough to withstand the heartbreak.

Strong Enough is a stand-alone novel in the Meet Me in Montana series, but for a better experience the order is as follows:

1. Never Enough
2. Always Enough
3. Good Enough
4. Strong Enough

©2020 by Kelly Elliott (P)2021 Audible, Inc.

Saved the Best Until Last!

This is a great example of what a narrator can do to an audiobook. I haven’t liked the last two audiobooks in the series, but the story was good. I love the first one and I realized halfway through this book that it was the same male narrator. Alexander Cendese has a way of emerging himself into the characters with such excitement. I laughed and I cried with him. Dirk was my favorite of all of the men, and that’s saying a lot because they were all HOT! 🔥I loved this series, but I wish that Ty and Tanner had better narration, especially the second book in which Kaylee is supposed to have a southern accent. The women narrators in the first and last audiobooks met their match as well. I never tired of listening to the story. It felt like I was living my life with them and that they were my friends. It makes me want to move to Montana and find people like the Shaw family. Ha!
I also love the fact that although this book was steamy, it wasn’t as much as the previous book when it felt like it was all about lust and not love. This was a love story in the making and it was very good. I totally recommend listening to the first and fourth book, but we do the second and third.

Good Story but the H will drive you crazy!

4 Stars for me!

My rating range of this story... 3.5 - 4.25 Stars
If significant, why?

Main Character Ratings...
H = 5/10
h = 7/10

Narrator Rating(s)
M = n/a
F = 7/10
If below 5/10,why?

Was cheating involved? No
Any major triggers to be aware of? Death of a family member

Scenes with heat... Yes
What point does it start? 50%
How much of the story? 19%
Anything beyond M/F? No
If yes, explained

Heat Rating... 7/10
Clean or Fade to Black - 1 or 2
Normal to Descriptive 3-5
Detailed Descriptive Sex - 6-7
Um, Wow, Beyond Descriptive Sex - 8 or above

Was there so much sex or unrealistic sex that you rolled your eyes and/or skipped forward? Of course!

The back story... The H gave up the love of his life because he wanted the shiny object (his best friend's girl). He stays out on the PBR circuit and sleeps with anything that breathes.

The Romance... Didn't start until the 80% mark

The drama explosion... The H runs and hides when life throws a curve ball
Did it feel Real, OK or contrived? Contrived
Was it OTT? Yes
Separation involved? Short
Was it resolved properly or rushed? Ok

Final Notes... I liked this story better than the previous two stories but they all suffer from the same plot device. It takes way too long for the MCs to start to grow together so each ending seems rushed.


HEA or HFN? HEA

All Good Things...

I was excited to listen to Dirk's story after being so bored with Tanner and Timberlynn in the 3rd book. There was definitely a lot of drama and pain, but it was still a good story. I enjoyed how we got to watch Dirk develop and grow over the course of the series. Great book and worth the listen. It's the same male narrator as the first book, but he did a way better job narrating this story than the first one.

loved it

I really enjoyed reading this book. I look forward to reading more books by this author in the near future.

This Story Pulled On All My Heart Strings 5 star+

Strong Enough by Kelly Elliot book 4 in the Meet Me In Montana book series can be listened to as a stand alone or with the series but personally I'm glad I listened to it in the order of the series. Dirk Littlefield who is Brock Shaw's best friend and is part of the Shaw's extended family he has a roll in all the books in the series. Dirk is a bull rider and seems to love the bull riding circuit being on top and all the ladies that chase the riders. He gives everyone the impression he's happy and he's a ladies man with no intention to settling down. Merit Eden was Dirks neighbor and best friend growing up she was the only girl who could stop him in his tracks. At the end of high school something happened that changed their friendship and hurt Merit it sent them both running her hurt and him scared but years later trouble brings Merit home to help and tragedy almost destroys Dirk and they have to struggle and find their way. This book was amazing I cried I laughed I became pulled into this story it is so well written it is now one of my top favorites. I have to say Kelly Elliot rocked this story! I can't forget the narration it was perfect. I 100% recommend this

A good conclusion to the series

Like the others this is a good love story, but like the others lacks a clear storyline or engaging plot.

The narrators need some work especially the male who has a tendency to talk too fast and loud when his passion should be strong, soothing, and captivating.

Storyline was good but narrators not so much.

Both narrators couldn’t do other gender voices at all! The storyline was good though. I enjoyed the series.

good book

this book had a good story line however the GD word was uncalled for 😕