Riding Heartbreak Road
by Kiernan Kelly
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Author: Kiernan KellyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-26
ISBN: 1934166251
Number of pages: 180
Publisher: Torquere Press
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Book Review: IMPROBABLE, BUT FUN NONE THE LESS
Summary: 4 Stars
Honestly, RIDING HEARTBREAK ROAD is incredibly far fetched. Its premise is highly improbable and the plot veers toward hand wrenching melodrama. But if you're looking for something to completely lose yourself in for a couple of hours I predict you'll enjoy this book. The situations are over the top, the passion is fierce, and the sex is hot.
Jake Goodall is a poor Texas cowboy with dreams of riding bulls on the pro rodeo circuit. He's in his early twenties, and good looking, but he's stuck in the little hamlet of Stillwater, working in his fathers feed store. He rides bulls at small county fair rodeos and does his best to keep his homosexuality a secret.
Brent Miller is a New York computer whiz. He's only a few years out of college, openly gay, has his own software business, and is extremely wealthy. Brent has a deep fear of flying, however, so he drives his BMW to Dallas, where he's going to sign a lucrative new contract. Thinking he's found a shortcut on his map, Brent leaves the interstate, gets hopelessly lost on bad country roads, and breaks down in Stillwater.
Told it will take several days to fix his car, Brent checks into the town's only motel, a real flea bag, and decides to kill time checking out the seedy honky-tonk located a brief walk away. The crowd spots him for an out-of-towner, and steers clear of him. When Jake sees the newcomer across the bar, he's immediately attracted, approaches Brent, and before you know it, the two are headed out by the river for a quick and private campsite hookup.
Not surprisingly, it's love at first sight for the cowboy and the city slicker, and Brent is quick to start devising plans that will keep them together. But our boys haven't been as discreet as they thought they'd been, and local homophobes are quick to attack Brent. Seeing Brent unconscious in the hospital, Jake vows to stay forever by his side.
This all happens in the space of a few days, and sets the ground work for the rest of the story. It's not exactly plausible I suppose, but so what? RIDING HEARTBREAK ROAD is a romantic fantasy, and it doesn't pretend to be otherwise. It may not be a literary masterpiece, but it's a well spun yarn and a nice example of good old fashioned story telling.
As a final note, the title of the book is HEARTBREAK ROAD, but the first bull Brent watches Jake ride, a bull referred to several times through the course of the story, is named Heartache Road. I found this discrepancy to be rather odd.
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