Once burned, twice shy...
After her heart is broken, curvy Mary Andre is determined to never risk it again. Besides, she has too much work and too many bills for her SoCal sheep ranch to bother with romance. Born under the Virgo sign, she has a can-do attitude. Everything is under control until her coyote-shifter ex-husband slaughters one of her flock. Mary goes looking for a hero-for-hire, but fate deals her a Greek god. Handsome Demetri Larsen puts the tempt into temptation. It takes every ounce of her willpower to resist her desire for him.
Cursed to wander the earth until he finds his soulmate...
For three hundred years, the immortal ram-shifter lived life on the road, chasing pleasure when not called upon to act as an Aries Guardian. For Demetri, desire and duty are about to collide head-on when a feisty redhead upends his entire world. In his determination to neither hurt nor be hurt, Demetri refuses to take a chance on the love that could set him free.
The puns are amazing!!! The dog that talks, amazing!! A woman named Mary running a lamb farm and have a coyote ex-husband, such a great start.
BUT I had to check the publication date MANY times. I could not believe that a book published in 2018 had so much fat phobia and slut shaming. Simultaneously. It tells me I've been very insular with my reading choices, but like, I'm ok with that if it means I'm avoiding books with fat phobia and slut shaming.
I could go on. I have 25 highlights in this book and I didn't make a single one visible. 2 are just excellent punny chapter titles! 2 are heaving bosoms found in the wild. But the other 21 are cringy moments or just blatant contradictions in the text. It got rough there for a minute.
Overall, it's very short and it absolutely does fit the prompt of cowboy romance and ram shifter, which was ultimately what I was looking for. Buuuuuuut that's about it.
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