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Thursday, March 4, 2021

The Cowboy’s Last Song by Deborah Garland

Single dad Jamie Miller is a hot country music star that raises his daughter 10 months out of the year, and lets loose partying and womanizing while he tours the other 2 months. It’s a great single dad story because Jamie has so many diverse hats to wear.  He needs to perform, it isn’t just a job.  He carries around a lot of guilt because the performing kept his little family apart.

Harper and Jamie met previously years ago and it didn’t end well.  Now she is an executive at his new record label.  She’s the daughter of two country music legends that left her on her own or with relatives, to pursue their careers.  In each case the importance of one’s career and the people they love takes center stage.

The writing is excellent and the author touches on secondary characters that have or will feature in future books, but they are easy to keep track of.  What I really liked is that while the character’s history’s were very important, they were reveal within the context of the present without jumping back and forth between the past and present.  I also like romances when some jealousy or possessiveness occurs because so many opportunities arise from that.

So the chemistry and passion was way up there, we had the single dad trying to explain “sleepovers” with a woman to his 11 year old daughter, and a couple of potentially catastrophic career events to keep this book really interesting.


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