Trust me when I say, I’ve found it easier just to say what I want and mean what I say.”
And fuck everyone and anything that didn’t like me the way I was.

The book starts with a bang with one of the most KICKASS and just plain awesome scenes EVER, showing us just how badass Waylynn really is. I can honestly say that this woman is now one of my literary heroes – okay, maybe better to say, heroines – and my favorite of all Lani Lynn Vale heroines: she is SPECTACULAR!

That scene not only opened the book in the most gripping of ways – I was absolutely glued to the pages, and devouring as fast as possible, and that is saying a lot, because LLV always has me hooked from the get go – it was brilliant. And the way it ‘lassoed’ Darby to her, in a way he could never more let go, awwww… It was perfection!

I wanted to corrupt Waylynn Jennings. I wanted to do bad, bad things to her. I wanted to ruin her until no other man would get close.
But… that would make me bad.
I wasn’t bad anymore… right?

Darby, the youngest of the Valentine, doesn’t have it easy in any way, because even now, after many years of being in the right track, his family still doesn’t fully see the new him, and how much he gives of himself to may everyone happy. My black little heart hurt so bad for him, specially when it was clear that he was not giving in any way a fair chance, that they would always treat him, with the credit he deserved, and the past would forever be hanging over his head. I never expected to love him as much as I did, though we knew about his change from his snippets in the past books, but oh my… Did this cowboy steal my heart.

More even than the love story, I ADORED how Waylynn was right there for Darby from the very start of the book, immediately after her move to Kilgore. She believed in him unconditionally, and that is exactly what Darby needed the most at the time. In turn, Darby was just as much there for her, and even with both fighting their insane attraction, their companionship shone through, and it just made their romance richer, imo, that they had that before truly getting involved. The build up was spot on, and the wait, oh so delicious. And when they finally let go of the restraints… OH BOY…. Can anyone say SCORCHING?! LOL 

“You’re a good man, Darby Valentine,” she said softly. “I didn’t know the boy, but I know the man. And you’re everything that I’ve been looking for in a man, and even some things that I never knew that I wanted.”

Ms. Vale gave us such a gift in these Valentine men, the most PERFECT of endings for such anticipated and amazing group. After years of intrigue after first meeting these men, right there in LLV second series, I can honestly say all the wait was soooooo worth it! They are everything! Waylynn and Darby stole my heart in this one, with Lani Lynn Vale giving us once again her masterful balance of deeply emotional, hilarious, and uber sexy romance, in a relatable and fluid setting, where the characters and their complexity   was evident – so much so that at one point I wanted to nut punch his brothers so hard, lol – but it was the LOVE in all its forms that really left us swooning. The most perfect epilogues, tied not just Way and Darby beautiful love story, but all the Valentine gang, in the most perfect of bows, or should I say Lassoes?! The amazing, and baby filled, HEA that all the Valentine deserved! <3 <3 <3 <3

“I told myself not to love you,” she told me. “But you made it impossible.”
“I didn’t realize that you were something I needed,”

“Do you know,” he said softly. “That it feels like you’ve always been here. A part of me?”
When I pulled back, I saw that his hand was over his heart.
“No,” I admitted. “Not until you just told me.”