Book Review: Prairie Passion by Tessa Layne

Cowboys of the Flint Hills Book 2

She is SO not his type… They might have shared a fiery kiss at his brother’s wedding, but Brodie Sinclaire wants nothing to do with chef Jamey O’Neill and her sexy, all too sassy mouth. Except he desperately needs her to run the kitchen at his new hunting lodge.

He’s a pain in her…. While Brodie may push her buttons in all the right places, Jamey doesn't need the deliciously handsome cowboy bossing her in the kitchen and meddling in her personal life. All she wants is him for dessert. They can’t deny their chemistry is explosive, but can they handle the heat when things get messy in the kitchen?

A standalone novel filled with racy shenanigans in and out of the kitchen, and a Happily Ever After that will have you reaching for the tissues!

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My Review:

I’m going to do this kind of backwards, because I adored the ending. But, yikes, Jamey and Brodie are difficult characters to like. They’re both keeping really big secrets that fill them with shame. And that’s where I kind of lost the plot. Neither secret was particularly shameful. Certainly not worth all the angst that’s created in the story over them. I can almost understand Brodie’s situation. He’s spent a lot of years with his issue undiagnosed and spent most of those same years being ridiculed for it. But I’m still baffled by how Jamey’s medical condition should result in her being blackballed from her profession. When this book was published, Celiac disease and other problems with wheat gluten were fairly widely recognized diagnoses. Jamey’s behavior about this makes the story feel a lot more dated than it really is. I received a complimentary copy of this book.

Other books in the series:

Prairie Heat: Cowboys of the Flint Hills