Reviewer: Robyn Roberts
Title: The Creed Legacy - 3rd in the Creed Cowboy series
Author: Linda Lael Miller
Publisher: HQN
ISBN-13: 978-0-373-77600-9
Release Date: June 2011
Genre/Sub-genre: Contemporary Romance
Year/Setting: Present day/Lonesome Bend, CO
Overall Rating: 4.0
Sexual Content Rating: Sensual
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: None
Violent Content Rating: None
Linda's Website/Blog: www.lindalaelmiller.com
Brody Creed has been away from Lonesome Bend for a long time. He’s been hardened by a life on the rodeo circuit and has no thoughts of returning home. But a chance encounter with his twin brother, Conner, starts sending his thoughts toward the life and family he gave up years ago. And now he’s back in Lonesome Bend and claims it is to stay. His brother thinks he’ll leave soon enough—he’s done it before—and the rest of the family is cautiously optimistic that he just might stay. Or will the secrets of his past drive him out of town again…this time for good?
Carolyn Simmons is on the lookout for her future Mister in Lonesome Bend. She’s been on her own for a long time and is hearing her biological clock ticking louder each day. She finally feels comfortable and is settling into Lonesome Bend as a forever sort of home. Then Brody comes sweeping into town like a tornado through her heart, and all the reasons she has left every other town come back into focus. She’s been deeply hurt by Brody and his declaration of staying is a knife in her heart. She knows she has to be civil and pretend the past never happened…it’s how Brody is playing it and so she’s determined to follow suit. But when your heart breaks a little more each time you are near him, it’s hard to stay firm in your decisions. Will she stay and put the past behind her, or should she just go and start over—again—somewhere else?
I thought this was a wonderful conclusion to the Creed family stories. Brody Creed has been on my poop list since the first book, but getting to know him in depth and seeing his past and what makes him tick brought me to a place where I admire and respect him now. He moved off my poop list and onto my hero list. Sometimes, our life experiences affect us in ways we don’t truly fathom. Unfortunately, Brody chose a path of destruction instead of healing. My heart broke for him as I learned all the truths about his past.
Carolyn was such a likeable person from the start. If I would have met her in her shop in Lonesome Bend, she’s a person I’d try to meet up with for coffee and get to know better. I could see her becoming one of my best friends. And so when Brody hurt her, I was hurting for her. Her pain was tangible to me. I admire her spunk and her zest for living life to the fullest. As I learned more about her past, I could see how it shaped her and made her a better person. She didn’t allow her past to hold her down; she used that past to forge a brilliant new future.
Overall, I think this book would stand on it’s own; but I felt is would be best enjoyed if you read the entire three book series. Brody and Carolyn’s story was one that really made me appreciate my own life all the more.
Robyn
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