Review: Wild as the West Texas Wind by Jackie North

12 April of 2019 by ButtonsMom2003

Reviewer's Rating: 4

4.0Overall score

I enjoyed my this, my first book by Jackie North.

Wild as the West Texas Wind By Jackie North

Genre: Science Fiction, Time Travel, GLBTQ, MM, Paranormal

Released: February 21, 2019

Publisher: Blue Rain Press

Series: Love Across Time, Book 3

Synopsis

Soulmates across time. Two hearts that were meant to be together.

In present day, Zach takes a road trip to Trinidad to find information on a missing friend.

In 1892, Layton Blue, outlaw, longs for hearth and home even as he treasures his life of freedom.

A freak rainstorm washes Zach’s car into a ditch, sending him back to the year 1892. Searching for help, alone and on foot in the middle of the nowhere, he crosses paths with the famous Ketchum Gang. Now the gang’s prisoner, Zach’s fate is to be sold at a seedy auction for whores.

Layton is put in charge of making sure Zach does not escape, but as the chemistry between them grows, Layton finds himself wanting to help Zach.

Can Layton overcome years of being on the run? Can Zach accept help from an outlaw?

A male/male time travel romance complete with fast rides across the desert, campfires beneath the stars, cool water in the desert, wild rescues, and true love across time.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

I enjoyed my this, my first book by Jackie North.

I can’t remember if I’ve ever read a time-travel romance before; if I have none of them were like Wild as the West Texas Wind. It’s the third book in the Love Across Time series but reads as a standalone with no problem. I will say, however, that now I want to go back and read at least book two, Honey from the Lion, because those characters appear in this one—but not in a way that made me feel at all lost for not having read it.

The blurb for the book is great so I’m not going to rehash it. The story kept my attention from beginning to end. Zach was really missing his friend, Laurie, who disappeared several months ago. Layton, an outlaw in the old west, was longing for a better life and someone to be with. Fate eventually puts the two of them together.

Layton has felt out of place with the Ketchem gang for a while. He has these urges that he doesn’t really understand. When Zach is taken by the gang Layton feels something for him that confuses him at first. This part of the story, Zach helping Layton to understand and discover what it’s like to love another man, was really sweet. I really liked these two characters together.

At times I got a bit frustrated with Layton—as did Zach—because he was afraid to standup to the leader of the gang. At the same time, I could also understand his reluctance to do so. It was this conflict that helped keep the story interesting for me. I kept waiting, almost anxiously, for something to happen (this wasn’t a bad thing). When the ultimate conflict finally came it almost caught me by surprise, which I thought was really good.

The story was fast paced and I especially loved all of the bits about Layton’s horse, Tam. She could star in her own story! ? I’m looking forward to reading the next book in this series.

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O Factor: Spicy

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About Author

Jackie North

Jackie North has been writing stories since grade school and spent years absorbing the mainstream romances that she found at her local grocery store. Her dream was to someday leave her corporate day job behind and travel the world. She also wanted to put her English degree to good use and write romance novels, because for years she’s had a never-ending movie of made-up love stories in her head that simply wouldn’t leave her alone.

As fate would have it, she discovered m/m romance and decided that men falling in love with other men was exactly what she wanted to write books about. In this dazzling new world, she turned her grocery-store romance ideas around and is now putting them to paper as fast as her fingers can type. She creates characters who are a bit flawed and broken, who find themselves on the edge of society, and maybe a few who are a little bit lost, but who all deserve a happily ever after. (And she makes sure they get it!)

She likes long walks on the beach, the smell of lavender and rainstorms, and enjoys sleeping in on snowy mornings. She is especially fond of pizza and beer and, when time allows, long road trips with soda fountain drinks and rock and roll music. In her heart, there is peace to be found everywhere, but since in the real world this isn’t always true, Jackie writes for love.

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