Book Review: Wild & Wrangled

Last week I read Wild & Wrangled by Lyla Sage – the last book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series.

This one follows Camille or Cami Ashwood and Dusty Tucker. Cami shares a daughter with Gus Ryder, Riley. We’ve met her in the previous books because she and Gus are great co-parents and friends. Dusty made his first appearance in Lost & Lassoed, Gus and Teddy’s book, when he came back home to Meadowlark after traveling the world being a cowboy. It was evident in the Lost & Lassoed that Cami and Dusty had a past, when they were both thrown off kilter when they saw each other for the first time in years. Wild & Wrangled follows their story.

Cami and Dusty met in high school when Cami’s wealthy, snobby parents allowed her to leave private school and attend public school. They became best friends, Dusty’s family really took Cami in like one of their own, and they eventually fell in love. But when high school ended, their paths for the future were too different. Dusty wanted to travel the world and work as a cowboy. Cami’s parents expected her to go to a prestigious college and become a lawyer. Despite being in love with each other, they still had a lot of growing up to do and separated even though it hurt them both so much. That hurt kept them separated for years, until present day when Cami is engaged to a guy her parents approve of, but she gets left at the altar.

Now, Cami needs to figure out a future that will actually make her happy and be good for Riley too. Dusty and Cami are back in each other’s lives, but will they just stay friends? Can they get their happily ever after or will the things that kept them apart years ago keep them apart still?

I really liked this book and thought it was a great wrap-up to the series. I always love a good second chance romance and this one was perfect. I loved Dusty and I liked Cami, but at times I thought she was a little boring. She didn’t hook me in like Emmy in Done & Dusted or have the sass that Ada and Teddy had in Swift & Saddled and Lost & Lassoed. So while I did like her, she just wasn’t as interesting to me as previous characters.

Overall, I liked the book and loved seeing Dusty and Cami rediscover each other.

Read this if you want a spicy small town cowboy romance with the second chance romance trope.

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