Shotgun Ridge (Author Spotlight)

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Summary: Abbe Stands Up
Review: Abbe Shea takes her young daughter and flees the mob. Covering her tracks she lands in Montana at the ranch of Grant Callahan, a Special Forces veteran, who doesn't like strangers landing at his private airfield. Two year old Jolene charms the man who breeds million dollar race horses. Callahan is intrigued by the mystery woman but the career bachelor has no intention of handing over his heart even if everyone in town thinks it is a good idea, especially "The Geezers," a group of old men who play matchmaker for the bachelors in town. Soon there is a parade of strangers through the town, including the FBI and the mob? Callahan tries to protect Abbe and Jolene while figuring out the good guys from the bad. How far will he go to protect Abbe and Jolene? Will his multimillion dollar horse breeding operation survive Abbe? Mindy Neff weaves a tale with lots of action, twists and surprises. Abbe and Grant are well developed characters put in their places by an all too cute two year old with a doll named Lambie-pie. This is a must read.


Rating:
Summary: Not the best in the series actually the worst.
Review: Having read all of Mindy Neff's book in her popular series I was a bit disappointed with this one.

A few reasons.
It is hard to really explain that the character wasn't as likeable as her previous characters had been.

Grant (male character who was in her previous books and was liked in those as a secondary character) came off as a jerk at the start.
Abbe Shea (the female character) can't understand WHY he is upset that she came to his place on false pretenses. Not to mention that their is a price on her head and she didn't CARE that she was subjecting others to murderers.
There wasn't that chemistry between her male and female character that she had in her previous Shotgun Ridge books (which I have them all).
In her previous books the love making was not as graphic as this one was. I really was disappointed to see her talk about her [...] and a few other seens. If I knew it would be that smutty I wouldn't have bought this book.

The Pop (her adoptive father and Grant's biological father) in the book is a thug.
Sorry, he was too coward to get out of a criminal family.
Yet, we should all love him?
Why for having people killed?
Laudering money?
Being in the Mafia?

Grant gets shot in the shoulder and passes out?
Then an hour later he is heading a mission AFTER he passes out, takes Abbe's daughter to the medicine doctor (he passes out but can drive) and is doctored by the medicine doctor, then leads a group of ex-Army men to rescue Abbe.
It doesn't add up and neither does this book.

It gets ONLY three stars because
this is a book in her Shotgun Ridge Series (I love the previous 6 stories and 1 online Shotgun Ridge story), because she does have some of her characters back in the mix and that she sends a message that her next story might just be Clay going after Cherry Peyton (Wyatt's neighbor from the first story).