Braced For Love (#01 in Brothers In Arms Series)

If you have read and liked any of Mary's works, you will probably enjoy this one. There aren't any surprises in here. The couple butt head and argue which can be very entertaining. They are married before the end of the book, and while you know the marriage is consummated, Mary doesn't write anything explicit. If you haven't read Mary Connealy and don't want to read about a couple waking up after their first night married, you should probably skip this book (and all of her others as far as I remember). While Mary writes an entertaining book with fiery characters, her focus on the physical side of love is one of the reasons I don't read her often and skip some of the parts. The 'who done it' isn't immediately clear. Although, by the end, I had a fair guess. The next two books will show if I am right. I'm not itching to read the next book, but I probably will at some stage. When I want a fiery Western with tempers, words, and bullets flying, Mary is who I read. She has plenty of grumpy, snarling cowboys paired with a cowgirl who either glare at them or else knock them up the side of the head until they behave.

A life in the so-called 'Old West', like that in many of Mary Connealy's books is so foreign to me. I'm not a city girl by any means, but the idea of working the land for a living, guns, cattle, and all that involves is so far from my everyday life. But that is probably why I enjoy these stories so much. It is an escape for the mundane every day. \\n\\nLike Mary Connealy's other books, I enjoyed Braced For Love. This new book is the first in her new series Brothers in Arms. Braced for Love follows one of the three half-brothers, Kevin. As this is my honest review, I have to admit that I really struggled at the beginning of this book. It didn't really draw me. The characters were difficult to get to know and it almost seemed very disjointed at the beginning. Though it definitely got better from about 40% of the way into the book. \\n\\nI enjoyed how the story ended up. There were some unexpected twists to the story and some expected situations. I am looking forward to the next book, mainly because the story didn't fully wrap up. Most of the story did wrap up but there are still a few loose ends I'm looking forward to seeing wrapped up in future books.