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Cowboy from the Future
Adeline Mulhaney’s “Glamping Retreat” is the worst vacation ever. The campfire sing-alongs are bad enough, but then she’s somehow transported sixteen hundred years into the future. Only instead of flying cars, this future is filled with buffalo-sized lizards and laser-gun showdowns in the streets. If Addy’s ever getting back to the twenty-first century, she’ll need help from a certain super-handsome cowboy with superpowers.
Cade Westin is pretty sure Addy’s crazy, when she moves into his hotel. But, then her life is threatened and not even wild Ghaa beasts can stop Cade from riding to the rescue. He isn’t sure where that redheaded lunatic comes from, but deep down he knows that Addy only belongs with him.
M/FHappily Ever AfterTime travel romance, Western romance, post-apocalyptic romance, grumpy/sunshine.97,000 + wordsStandalone book
Cade Westin is pretty sure Addy’s crazy, when she moves into his hotel. But, then her life is threatened and not even wild Ghaa beasts can stop Cade from riding to the rescue. He isn’t sure where that redheaded lunatic comes from, but deep down he knows that Addy only belongs with him.
M/FHappily Ever AfterTime travel romance, Western romance, post-apocalyptic romance, grumpy/sunshine.97,000 + wordsStandalone book
376 pages, ebook
First published August 28, 2014
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April 27, 2018
This was a fun time travel romance. It was super light and a bit heavy on the tropes and cliches but despite that it still managed to be enjoyable and fun!
During a glamping (glamorous camping!) trip Adeline Mulhaney finds herself sucked thousands of years into a post-apocalyptic future. Lucky for her she stumbles into the inn of the Westin brothers who take a liking to her weird ways and decide to protect her from everything from grabby cowboys to mutant cannibals!
The story was a bit predictable but that never stopped it from being a fun ride. The tone was very light and we got plenty of humor. It also really helped the the characters were a likeable batch. Adeline was easy to root for and so was her love interest Cade and his two brothers.
All in all this was a fun, fast, and relatively simple read.
Rating: 3.5 stars.
During a glamping (glamorous camping!) trip Adeline Mulhaney finds herself sucked thousands of years into a post-apocalyptic future. Lucky for her she stumbles into the inn of the Westin brothers who take a liking to her weird ways and decide to protect her from everything from grabby cowboys to mutant cannibals!
The story was a bit predictable but that never stopped it from being a fun ride. The tone was very light and we got plenty of humor. It also really helped the the characters were a likeable batch. Adeline was easy to root for and so was her love interest Cade and his two brothers.
All in all this was a fun, fast, and relatively simple read.
Rating: 3.5 stars.
November 23, 2021
This was a quick fun unusual read and you can always rely on this author to provide the humour.
Addy while attending a work retreat finds Herself transported into the future.
Swiftly taken under the wing of local saloon owner Cade and his brothers Deke and Jake, Addy is definitely out of her depth, stuck in a time reminiscent of the Wild West but with futuristic elements and she has no clue how to survive in it.
Addy is a bit of a flake, she likes to quote popular culture and this had plenty of references to the eighties. She’s a trust fund kid with a bit of an aimless life and she’s definitely not her own idea of the perfect woman.
I liked the fact that she was so normal, slightly chubby and ordinary in how she sees herself.
But she has a warm manner and an exuberance that was infectious, swiftly drawing the boys in and making herself a part of their small family unit.
Cade is initially reluctant to allow the strange woman to stay. He’s half Voltyn something that is looked down upon in his world, he faces bigotry and oppression every day and he knows Addys appearance in his saloon is only going to add fuel to an already volatile situation whilst also staining her own reputation in the process.
But Cade is a natural protector so reluctantly he allows her to temporarily stay.
But I had to smile at the grumpy put-on manner Cade effects, the man was a total grouch, something Addy took totally in her stride. When Addy’s presence causes issues Cade Addy Deke and Jake have to forge a new path ahead, this path takes them on a journey filled with danger and also one where Addy and Cade grow closer.
This had loads of humour and really was a fun-filled experience.
Though i was a bit surprised we started where we did with Addie as there was no background and this starts when she walks into the saloon. This also has a nice epilogue set five months later.
Overall this was an easy read with a sweet love story at its centre.
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October 24, 2016
"Damn Dirty Dancing and its uncompromising view on romance..." - Adeline Mulhany
This was a lot of fun and a super sweet romance. This is an indy, so you will have to be willing to overlook the lack of an editor. And you will also have to be well versed in American pop culture to appreciate this. The heroine has a particular fondness for the 80's, in particular. I haven't heard mention of Dexy's Midnight Runners in ages.
Adeline is a pretty, chubby girl who is reluctantly on a "glamping" (glamorous camping) trip to Yellowstone as part of a corporate retreat. The eruption of a geyser knocks her all the way to Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota and quite far into the future as well.
This is a fun and imaginative take on the dystopian future. This place is very reminiscent of the wild west, but instead of cows stampeding there are these weird giant lizard thingies. Instead of 6-shooters, they use laser guns. Horses are pretty much still horses, but they come in pastel colors now. Addie "felt like she'd been transported into that Firefly episode with the creepy frontier town".
When Addie first comes to, she walks into the nearest saloon and meets the grumpy owner, Cade. Cade is an outcast due to being born 1/2 Volytn. Voltyns were a genetically engineered soldier created for some past war and are now considered subhuman. Cade also has 2 non-Voltyn half brothers who live and work with him in the saloon. One is a one armed vet with PTSD and the youngest is a goof off always getting into trouble for gambling. Both are really well drawn and add to the story.
In the future, a well groomed woman who was fortunate enough to be well-fed is considered the ideal beauty. Cade is instantly attracted, but he fights it since there are laws against his kind fraternizing with human women, especially since she's a human woman who is so desirable.
Most people fear Cade for what he is, but since Addie is ignorant of the society. She just finds him to be a big, gorgeous, cranky guy who she instinctively trusts. She finagles her way into living in one of the rooms above the bar until she can figure out how to get back to her time. In the meantime, she turns the brother's lives upside down and drives Cade crazy.
Addie is a very lovable character. She manages to walk that fine line between sweet and snarky. She's soft-hearted, but not a Mary Sue. She's funny, but not grating/obnoxious. I laughed when the youngest brother kept pestering her for stories about her home. She was afraid to reveal she was from the past, so she recited the adventures of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
Cade is adorable in that grouchy, long suffering sort of way. He loves his brothers and is falling in love with Addie, but they all drive him nuts. He is always having to pull them out of one scrape or another.
The love story is very slow burn and there isn't a huge focus on sex. There's no sex scene until quite far into the book. Cade's control over electricity does make him a very interesting sex partner, however. Think human vibrator ;)
If you're in the mood for something a bit different, I definitely recommend this quirky little romance.
This was a lot of fun and a super sweet romance. This is an indy, so you will have to be willing to overlook the lack of an editor. And you will also have to be well versed in American pop culture to appreciate this. The heroine has a particular fondness for the 80's, in particular. I haven't heard mention of Dexy's Midnight Runners in ages.
Adeline is a pretty, chubby girl who is reluctantly on a "glamping" (glamorous camping) trip to Yellowstone as part of a corporate retreat. The eruption of a geyser knocks her all the way to Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota and quite far into the future as well.
This is a fun and imaginative take on the dystopian future. This place is very reminiscent of the wild west, but instead of cows stampeding there are these weird giant lizard thingies. Instead of 6-shooters, they use laser guns. Horses are pretty much still horses, but they come in pastel colors now. Addie "felt like she'd been transported into that Firefly episode with the creepy frontier town".
When Addie first comes to, she walks into the nearest saloon and meets the grumpy owner, Cade. Cade is an outcast due to being born 1/2 Volytn. Voltyns were a genetically engineered soldier created for some past war and are now considered subhuman. Cade also has 2 non-Voltyn half brothers who live and work with him in the saloon. One is a one armed vet with PTSD and the youngest is a goof off always getting into trouble for gambling. Both are really well drawn and add to the story.
In the future, a well groomed woman who was fortunate enough to be well-fed is considered the ideal beauty. Cade is instantly attracted, but he fights it since there are laws against his kind fraternizing with human women, especially since she's a human woman who is so desirable.
Most people fear Cade for what he is, but since Addie is ignorant of the society. She just finds him to be a big, gorgeous, cranky guy who she instinctively trusts. She finagles her way into living in one of the rooms above the bar until she can figure out how to get back to her time. In the meantime, she turns the brother's lives upside down and drives Cade crazy.
Addie is a very lovable character. She manages to walk that fine line between sweet and snarky. She's soft-hearted, but not a Mary Sue. She's funny, but not grating/obnoxious. I laughed when the youngest brother kept pestering her for stories about her home. She was afraid to reveal she was from the past, so she recited the adventures of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
Cade is adorable in that grouchy, long suffering sort of way. He loves his brothers and is falling in love with Addie, but they all drive him nuts. He is always having to pull them out of one scrape or another.
The love story is very slow burn and there isn't a huge focus on sex. There's no sex scene until quite far into the book. Cade's control over electricity does make him a very interesting sex partner, however. Think human vibrator ;)
If you're in the mood for something a bit different, I definitely recommend this quirky little romance.
October 23, 2018
Sadness! This was the last Cassandra Gannon book I had left to read. Now I've read them all....but I want MORE!! I really truly love her stories. Every single one of them.
February 5, 2017
Adeline the woman from the past and Cade the 'future man'.
I wanted to love this more than I did. But it was a fun ride. I just had to skim a bit in the last 25%. By then I was getting a bit tired of Addy's constant references to present day culture. I can tell you right off that this book won't age well because of it. Plus it's pretty rude to the other characters who aren't 'in' on her 'in' jokes.
But be that as it may, Cade was sweet, and his brothers were cute. There are giant lizards, mutants, strange new hairstyles, and a lack of electricity (or the kind we are used to). Adeline wasn't my fave heroine. She's like Forest Gump and just seems to miraculously save herself or someone else saves her without any conscious effort on her part.
Cade is smitten!! 600 or so years into the future, Addy is in a state of denial. The only person capable of keeping her safe is a man who is shunned by almost everyone else for being a scientific creation from before the 'Flash'. The story was really good and imaginative and tongue in cheek. But the little annoyances kept it from being more stars for me. The thing I liked most about this author was that she thinks of the little details that make a story more engaging. I would still like to read more by this author.
I wanted to love this more than I did. But it was a fun ride. I just had to skim a bit in the last 25%. By then I was getting a bit tired of Addy's constant references to present day culture. I can tell you right off that this book won't age well because of it. Plus it's pretty rude to the other characters who aren't 'in' on her 'in' jokes.
But be that as it may, Cade was sweet, and his brothers were cute. There are giant lizards, mutants, strange new hairstyles, and a lack of electricity (or the kind we are used to). Adeline wasn't my fave heroine. She's like Forest Gump and just seems to miraculously save herself or someone else saves her without any conscious effort on her part.
Cade is smitten!! 600 or so years into the future, Addy is in a state of denial. The only person capable of keeping her safe is a man who is shunned by almost everyone else for being a scientific creation from before the 'Flash'. The story was really good and imaginative and tongue in cheek. But the little annoyances kept it from being more stars for me. The thing I liked most about this author was that she thinks of the little details that make a story more engaging. I would still like to read more by this author.
January 20, 2024
- MF
- Time Travel
- Post Apocalyptic
- Western
- Grumpy/Sunshine
- Slow Burn
- Low Spice
Wow what a fun read! This is my first book by this author. I have a lot of her books saved on my TBR so I just randomly picked one and what a freaking blast! I wasn’t prepared for the humor!
Addy was attending a work vacation when gets a hit on her head and waked up 1600 years in the future. Cade is an ostracized half human/half superhuman that runs the local saloon she stumbles into. He becomes fascinated by her and decides to protect her until she can get back home. The back and forth is so cute with them! They are adorable.
This is a face paced easy read with a million 80s pop culture references and winds up being a lot of fun. This will not be my last book by this author, that’s for sure. What a happy find!
- Time Travel
- Post Apocalyptic
- Western
- Grumpy/Sunshine
- Slow Burn
- Low Spice
Wow what a fun read! This is my first book by this author. I have a lot of her books saved on my TBR so I just randomly picked one and what a freaking blast! I wasn’t prepared for the humor!
Addy was attending a work vacation when gets a hit on her head and waked up 1600 years in the future. Cade is an ostracized half human/half superhuman that runs the local saloon she stumbles into. He becomes fascinated by her and decides to protect her until she can get back home. The back and forth is so cute with them! They are adorable.
This is a face paced easy read with a million 80s pop culture references and winds up being a lot of fun. This will not be my last book by this author, that’s for sure. What a happy find!
June 29, 2023
This book was pretty entertaining. I loved the concept. Definitely a post-apoc world.
Addy travels about 1,600 years into the future and meets Cade and his brothers. Cade and his brothers are so funny and entertaining. I thought they really carried the story. Cade was sweet and smitten with Addy but had a hard time showing it. The story has undertones of fighting for what's right and treating people fairly. In Cade's time, there is lots of discrimination that everyone just accepts.
My only real complaint about this is Addy's character. I thought she was very annoying at times and over did it with the 'modern' references that none of the other characters understood. But it was a fun story none the less.
Addy travels about 1,600 years into the future and meets Cade and his brothers. Cade and his brothers are so funny and entertaining. I thought they really carried the story. Cade was sweet and smitten with Addy but had a hard time showing it. The story has undertones of fighting for what's right and treating people fairly. In Cade's time, there is lots of discrimination that everyone just accepts.
My only real complaint about this is Addy's character. I thought she was very annoying at times and over did it with the 'modern' references that none of the other characters understood. But it was a fun story none the less.
January 2, 2022
I’ve got to meet Cassandra Gannon.
October 17, 2024
Book club read October, 2024: western
Is this book a literary masterpiece? No, but it IS a lot of fun!
I had never read Cassandra Gannon before, nor had I stumbled upon postapocalyptic westerns with some time travel thrown in for the kicks of it. I didn't even know I needed a book like this in my life, but after having read it, I am definitely intrigued about the author's other works as well.
I should not love it because it was not a slow burn type of a story. I should not like it because miscommunication should be the MC's middle name. But I do really enjoy the author's writing style and it kind of makes me not notice the things I do not like. It made me chuckle on more than one occasion and wish postapocalyptic westerns was a more widely spread genre so I would've found it before.
Is this book a literary masterpiece? No, but it IS a lot of fun!
I had never read Cassandra Gannon before, nor had I stumbled upon postapocalyptic westerns with some time travel thrown in for the kicks of it. I didn't even know I needed a book like this in my life, but after having read it, I am definitely intrigued about the author's other works as well.
I should not love it because it was not a slow burn type of a story. I should not like it because miscommunication should be the MC's middle name. But I do really enjoy the author's writing style and it kind of makes me not notice the things I do not like. It made me chuckle on more than one occasion and wish postapocalyptic westerns was a more widely spread genre so I would've found it before.
December 23, 2023
Gannon is quickly becoming one of my favorite romance authors. Everything they write is so unhinged and funny and yet also heartbreaking and complex?? Was I expecting to cry reading a book called "Cowboy from the Future"? No. And yet I did.
Read if you enjoy: grumpy x sunshine, tired x enthusiastic, isekais, cowboys, sassy women and the men that follow them around.
Read if you enjoy: grumpy x sunshine, tired x enthusiastic, isekais, cowboys, sassy women and the men that follow them around.
January 24, 2025
3.5 ⭐️
Cute, short, silly and weird. A fun “book to read in between other books”. I’d definitely read more from this author. The miscommunication was a little tiresome, and Addy was annoying at times, but still a great little read.
Cute, short, silly and weird. A fun “book to read in between other books”. I’d definitely read more from this author. The miscommunication was a little tiresome, and Addy was annoying at times, but still a great little read.
September 7, 2014
I enjoyed this book QUITE A LOT.
It had the same issues of many, many typos that all Elizabeth/Cassandra Gannon books do and was also just as wackily adorable.
"I'm gonna get you a chuffer." A WHAT?!? But from the context it's supposed to be "chauffeur". There, that's my gift to you to spare you from confusion and a ftw? moment. You're welcome.
It had the same issues of many, many typos that all Elizabeth/Cassandra Gannon books do and was also just as wackily adorable.
"I'm gonna get you a chuffer." A WHAT?!? But from the context it's supposed to be "chauffeur". There, that's my gift to you to spare you from confusion and a ftw? moment. You're welcome.
September 30, 2020
Wowwwwwwww!!!! Awesome story!
Dayummmmmmm!!! I can’t believe I waited so long to read this one. What a crazy, fun, UNIQUE time travel romance with all the feellzzzzz AND a great story.
I am absolutely in love with Cade. Amidst the backdrop of a world lost to savagery, Cade was so convinced of his inability to love, to feel, to be human, told all his life that he was useless and a shame. And it took the belief and the encouragement and love of a good woman to make him see that he WAS worthwhile and valued. I’m all ferklmept.
I loved the humor in the story. The heroine was adorable and sweet and filled with an optimism that was contagious. She was absolutely perfect for the hero.
Possible triggers:Heroes past is mentioned briefly, although not a mansk@nk. Heroine is a virgin. No cheating, no ow/om. There is a scene with cannibalistic kidnappers, so beware. HEA with epilogue, although I wish it would’ve been longer out.
Still, a phenomenal book and I want to dive into more from this author.
Dayummmmmmm!!! I can’t believe I waited so long to read this one. What a crazy, fun, UNIQUE time travel romance with all the feellzzzzz AND a great story.
I am absolutely in love with Cade. Amidst the backdrop of a world lost to savagery, Cade was so convinced of his inability to love, to feel, to be human, told all his life that he was useless and a shame. And it took the belief and the encouragement and love of a good woman to make him see that he WAS worthwhile and valued. I’m all ferklmept.
I loved the humor in the story. The heroine was adorable and sweet and filled with an optimism that was contagious. She was absolutely perfect for the hero.
Possible triggers:Heroes past is mentioned briefly, although not a mansk@nk. Heroine is a virgin. No cheating, no ow/om. There is a scene with cannibalistic kidnappers, so beware. HEA with epilogue, although I wish it would’ve been longer out.
Still, a phenomenal book and I want to dive into more from this author.
March 7, 2016
Very light-hearted and funny time travel/scifi romance. I loved the characters in this. The heroine kept doing unexpected things and the hero's brothers were adorbs. Kind of a Cowboys and Aliens vibe... with giant lizards... and Mt Rushmore. Made me happy.
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April 24, 2020
Picked this up because I love Gannon's Wicked Ugly Bad series, but this one was just okay.
There are moments of humour between the hero and heroine, and some great one-liners, but they're just such SWEET characters that it sets my teeth on edge. I need my characters to be a little darker, a little more nuanced, so they lost my interest pretty quickly. I had to skim read the last 15%.
Recommended for someone who wants something totally feel-good.
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There are moments of humour between the hero and heroine, and some great one-liners, but they're just such SWEET characters that it sets my teeth on edge. I need my characters to be a little darker, a little more nuanced, so they lost my interest pretty quickly. I had to skim read the last 15%.
Recommended for someone who wants something totally feel-good.
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October 30, 2022
4.5⭐️ loved This it was very different the FMC was funny
July 15, 2025
Bonkers. She never misses for me though.
January 7, 2017
This author is my favorite person. No matter my mood, she can get me to laugh. She's definitely on my creepy list of authors that should give up their personal life and do nothing other than write more books for my amusement. Disclaimer- I know how crazypants I sound, but it's not like I've dug a pit in my basement and have lots of lotion on hand... that anyone knows about anyways...
April 9, 2022
What a fun little read! I expected this to be much cheesier than it was. This a definitely a 3 ⭐ book, but it was so freaking hilarious and had SO many 80's references, it earned more. I mean, this isn't exactly deep literature. The heroine thoroughly annoyed me and the hero was dense AF, but it worked in the end.
Now if only she would honor us with a sequel for each Jacobi and Deke.
Now if only she would honor us with a sequel for each Jacobi and Deke.
July 12, 2016
Naff title aside, this really is a great read.
A completely different take on the time travel-futuristic-dystopia trope. It is original and engaging with tons of topical pop culture references which give it an hilarious edge.
A completely different take on the time travel-futuristic-dystopia trope. It is original and engaging with tons of topical pop culture references which give it an hilarious edge.
October 29, 2018
Overall a nice light read, although not my favourite by Gannon as i did not laugh as much as I have with her other books nor was I as absorbed. I did like the characters of Cade and Addy, just wish there had been more depth to the plot overall and the characters teased out a bit more.
May 2, 2016
Fun romp through a blend of genres! Recommended to me by my sister, used for the "romance set in the future" task in the 2016 PopSugar Reading Challenge.
January 7, 2023
"Cowboy from the Future" is very silly and very funny. In fact I don't remember enjoying the concept of a book this much for a long time (Shelly Laurenston and Jennifer Crusie come to mind).
However, it was obviously written in a hurry and never properly edited. A little more care and it would have been a far better book.
Adeline Mulhaney finds herself near Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, after an accident knocks her out in Wyoming. It's 1,600 year later and rather than a future of robots and seemingly magical machines she's in a post-apocalyptic low-tech cowboy town called Shadow-of-the-Gods - with no coffee, no electricity, no phones and she's snowed in!
Her first contacts are the Westin brothers, Cade in particular (a very bad carpenter). He's half Voltyn and has no emotions - yeah, like I believe it for a second.
Voltyns, genetically modified humans, were created to be warriors before civilisation fell. They are second class citizens, forbidden to associate with 'full' humans, and Addy is way out of bounds.
Her interaction with Cade is full of references to films, TV shows, books, etc., none of which mean anything to him. For example he ends up wanting to kill Michael Landon on the grounds that he thinks Landon wanted to build a little house on the prairie for Addy.
First on the agenda is getting Addy back to her own time, but she's not quite sure that is what she wants. It's up to Cade to persuade her to stay!
"Maybe Cade didn’t know how to be romantic… But Patrick Swayze did." (You'll have to read the book to make sense of that!)
It has a really nice ending, with a hint of more to follow.
3.5 Stars, brought down to 3 Stars by the poor editing - “Do you think I go on the lamb with guys I don’t care about?" is pretty much unforgivable.
However, it was obviously written in a hurry and never properly edited. A little more care and it would have been a far better book.
Adeline Mulhaney finds herself near Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, after an accident knocks her out in Wyoming. It's 1,600 year later and rather than a future of robots and seemingly magical machines she's in a post-apocalyptic low-tech cowboy town called Shadow-of-the-Gods - with no coffee, no electricity, no phones and she's snowed in!
Her first contacts are the Westin brothers, Cade in particular (a very bad carpenter). He's half Voltyn and has no emotions - yeah, like I believe it for a second.
Voltyns, genetically modified humans, were created to be warriors before civilisation fell. They are second class citizens, forbidden to associate with 'full' humans, and Addy is way out of bounds.
Her interaction with Cade is full of references to films, TV shows, books, etc., none of which mean anything to him. For example he ends up wanting to kill Michael Landon on the grounds that he thinks Landon wanted to build a little house on the prairie for Addy.
First on the agenda is getting Addy back to her own time, but she's not quite sure that is what she wants. It's up to Cade to persuade her to stay!
"Maybe Cade didn’t know how to be romantic… But Patrick Swayze did." (You'll have to read the book to make sense of that!)
It has a really nice ending, with a hint of more to follow.
3.5 Stars, brought down to 3 Stars by the poor editing - “Do you think I go on the lamb with guys I don’t care about?" is pretty much unforgivable.
April 5, 2023
All right, so off the bat I’m gonna say 3 1/2 stars. Seriously wish that there was a half star system in place on this app. I think we can all acknowledge the cover of this book is simply beautiful. And from looking at her other books, Cassandra Gannon has a really good taste in book covers. Honestly, I’m a little shocked that she doesn’t seem to have more ratings on her kindle books. That being said, I’m puzzled about how I feel on this read. Was the writing amazing? No. O there pet peeve tropes? Yes, absolutely. Was it bat shit crazy? Undoubtedly. I think that might be why I liked it. Dammit. I actually liked it! I think this might be one of my guilty pleasures. And you know what… I’m not mad. Part in Romance, part BIZARRO, part, Wattpad vibe… Yet it was a damn fun read. Annoying things that bothered me were instant pregnancy trope, Mary Sue character WAS SOMETIMEs VERY Mary Sue, and sometimes solutions were just too easy. That being said, pacing at times, could be really phenomenal, and the characters are actually likable, especially the background and supporting ones. so yeah, embarrassingly enough. This read is nearly scraping the four star mark. And even more embarrassing I’m going to read more of her books. If you like it, you like it. I don’t kink shame and I sure as heck don’t book shame.
did-not-finish
June 5, 2025DNF 11%. Addy is insufferable and I hate time travel. Below is just me trying to decide why I like some of Cassandra Gannon's female main characters more than others.
I think I kind of detest most of Cassandra Gannon's curly haired, curvy, ditsy female leads. Addy/Gwen/Clem - they are all kind of interchangable. I am probably missing a couple but those 3 are the only ones who come to mind right now. The blond curvy ones also tend to have a fixation on their weight.
I am very much trying to narrow down why some of the characters being described as curvy/lush/not super thin works for me with this author and sometimes it irritates me enough to DNF. I had no issues with Ez or Marion from the Kinda Fairytales books, I am pretty sure they were both described as curvy. The Water Fae in Elemental Phases series are all described as curvy and I didn't have any issues with Nia or Ty.
I think maybe at some point for the characters I dislike being curvy seems to become a major facet of their personality. I don't need to hear about a character's body type every 5 minutes. This was especially irritating in Clementine's book. It seemed like every chapter the reader was made aware that muses had curvy body types (aka Blond Bombshells) and were therefore written off as sluts. That paired with annoying ditsy wide eyed "innocent" personalities is just too much for me to deal with.
I think I kind of detest most of Cassandra Gannon's curly haired, curvy, ditsy female leads. Addy/Gwen/Clem - they are all kind of interchangable. I am probably missing a couple but those 3 are the only ones who come to mind right now. The blond curvy ones also tend to have a fixation on their weight.
I am very much trying to narrow down why some of the characters being described as curvy/lush/not super thin works for me with this author and sometimes it irritates me enough to DNF. I had no issues with Ez or Marion from the Kinda Fairytales books, I am pretty sure they were both described as curvy. The Water Fae in Elemental Phases series are all described as curvy and I didn't have any issues with Nia or Ty.
I think maybe at some point for the characters I dislike being curvy seems to become a major facet of their personality. I don't need to hear about a character's body type every 5 minutes. This was especially irritating in Clementine's book. It seemed like every chapter the reader was made aware that muses had curvy body types (aka Blond Bombshells) and were therefore written off as sluts. That paired with annoying ditsy wide eyed "innocent" personalities is just too much for me to deal with.
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January 3, 2025
Well, this was bound to happen sooner or later...
I had many issues with this book but the main one is the fact that this suffered a lot from the 'tell, don't show'. We have these three brothers claiming this random chick who just appeared out of the blue in their saloon as part of their family. Adeline only had like a couple of interactions on page with Deke and Jake before they started calling her their sister. I mean, the former is a mutilated ex-soldier with serious PTSD and the latter is a teenager who gambles and gets beaten in the streets by the men he cheated out of their money. Somehow, I think it would take more trust building exercises for them to get to that stage.
The fmc WAS a scatterbrain with a fixation for her weight. To be fair, I gave up on the idea that I would like her as soon as the words 'trust fund' were dropped so it's not like she had much of a chance to begin with. The mmc just read like an obsessed fool.
I could've given this book a little more grace but this is Cassandra Gannon we're talking about and I don't care that this was probably one of her earlier works, I expect better from this queen!
As a sidenote, that scene in which the younger brother had to be 'shocked' back into life was just PAINFUL to read as a nurse.
I had many issues with this book but the main one is the fact that this suffered a lot from the 'tell, don't show'. We have these three brothers claiming this random chick who just appeared out of the blue in their saloon as part of their family. Adeline only had like a couple of interactions on page with Deke and Jake before they started calling her their sister. I mean, the former is a mutilated ex-soldier with serious PTSD and the latter is a teenager who gambles and gets beaten in the streets by the men he cheated out of their money. Somehow, I think it would take more trust building exercises for them to get to that stage.
The fmc WAS a scatterbrain with a fixation for her weight. To be fair, I gave up on the idea that I would like her as soon as the words 'trust fund' were dropped so it's not like she had much of a chance to begin with. The mmc just read like an obsessed fool.
I could've given this book a little more grace but this is Cassandra Gannon we're talking about and I don't care that this was probably one of her earlier works, I expect better from this queen!
As a sidenote, that scene in which the younger brother had to be 'shocked' back into life was just PAINFUL to read as a nurse.
February 13, 2024
2.5⭐
0-1🌶️ - one scene, scarce on details
This had such potential. I got tired of the language stuff and the pop culture references and the FMC was trying to be a chaos Muppet but wasn't. The body image stuff (physical for her, race based for him) felt ott since it was brought up so many times.
FMC is on a company vacay in Yellowstone, falls near a geyser, and wakes up at Mount Rushmore, 1000+ years in the future.
There's been a big nuclear event, cultural records lost, weather changes.
She walks into MMCs saloon, and he begrudgingly agrees to let her stay.
MMC is the oldest of three brothers. He has a diff mom- a "Voltryn" mom who was a genetically modified human species for war/battle. The middle brother is missing a forearm & hand from a recent war. Youngest brother is a teen, gambles bc nothing else to do.
They get run out of town, head to Mt Rushmore, then trek across the wilderness back to Yellowstone. She's taken captive by bad guys that want her "magic" (iPhone). The brothers follow, kill the bad dudes, and the geyser erupts again and voila. Back to Mt Rushmore, back to the time that she'd left.
She uses her trust fund to buy a horse ranch in Wyoming. HEA.
0-1🌶️ - one scene, scarce on details
This had such potential. I got tired of the language stuff and the pop culture references and the FMC was trying to be a chaos Muppet but wasn't. The body image stuff (physical for her, race based for him) felt ott since it was brought up so many times.
FMC is on a company vacay in Yellowstone, falls near a geyser, and wakes up at Mount Rushmore, 1000+ years in the future.
There's been a big nuclear event, cultural records lost, weather changes.
She walks into MMCs saloon, and he begrudgingly agrees to let her stay.
MMC is the oldest of three brothers. He has a diff mom- a "Voltryn" mom who was a genetically modified human species for war/battle. The middle brother is missing a forearm & hand from a recent war. Youngest brother is a teen, gambles bc nothing else to do.
They get run out of town, head to Mt Rushmore, then trek across the wilderness back to Yellowstone. She's taken captive by bad guys that want her "magic" (iPhone). The brothers follow, kill the bad dudes, and the geyser erupts again and voila. Back to Mt Rushmore, back to the time that she'd left.
She uses her trust fund to buy a horse ranch in Wyoming. HEA.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 3, 2025
For the most part, I enjoyed it. I did have a western era of romance reading back in high school, so it was nice to revisit western romance.
Some tropes are just not my cup of tea. Both characters were annoying in that they kept bickering and arguing over who had it worst. "I was fat shamed and no one ever liked me." "Well it's illegal for me to touch you, so I'm gonna protect you from me." 🙄
The 80s reference were too much for me. It bordered on camp, but not fun camp. Like cringe camp.
I don't understand this author's fixation on American history and historical landmarks. Tbh the whole Mt. Rushmore thing horrified me. Humans carved into a mountain that is older than dinosaurs, and we decided to deface these mountains with human faces that will have no meaning after we're dead? That's so horrifying to me, and not something that should be celebrated as awe-inspiring.
Obviously, I don't think this was the book for me, and it pretty much did the opposite of what the author was intending.
With that being said, it was a good story. All the beats were there. The brothers were funny, their interactions were adorable, and I love a good found family.
Some tropes are just not my cup of tea. Both characters were annoying in that they kept bickering and arguing over who had it worst. "I was fat shamed and no one ever liked me." "Well it's illegal for me to touch you, so I'm gonna protect you from me." 🙄
The 80s reference were too much for me. It bordered on camp, but not fun camp. Like cringe camp.
I don't understand this author's fixation on American history and historical landmarks. Tbh the whole Mt. Rushmore thing horrified me. Humans carved into a mountain that is older than dinosaurs, and we decided to deface these mountains with human faces that will have no meaning after we're dead? That's so horrifying to me, and not something that should be celebrated as awe-inspiring.
Obviously, I don't think this was the book for me, and it pretty much did the opposite of what the author was intending.
With that being said, it was a good story. All the beats were there. The brothers were funny, their interactions were adorable, and I love a good found family.
June 10, 2024
Oh my gosh this book!!! Addy stumbles into the future somehow and meets Cade at his saloon and he feels a need to protect her until she can get back to her own time. The first couple of chapters were a bit confusing to me since it's world building the future that happens to be western instead of the typical technology robot future. Addy had the best character development from sounding like a spoiled brat to saving the Westin boys more than once. Cade had such great character development as well from being ashamed of who he was to now being happy and comfortable with himself and learning to love and let people in. I loved Deke and Jacobi and that they were rooting for Addy and Cade the entire book. And the Westin boys brother bond was everything. Especially how they excepted Abby into their family. The ending and epilogue were absolutely perfect and the cover and book are just so good! I read this on my kindle and can't wait to pick up my own physical copy! This book was dual pov and open door!
May 16, 2021
2.5 stars
Decided to resort to Cassandra’s other books whilst waiting (impatiently) for the next instalment in A Kinda Fairytale.
I feel like this definitely had everything I love about Cassandra’s style written all over it - humorous characters, a head over heels in love MMC, grumpy side characters...
So why the lower star rating? It was just not as unique as A Kinda Fairytale whilst at the same time feeling very much like the characters from that series. Addy could very well have been Scarlett. Cade could very well have been Marrok. Meanwhile Deke screamed Trystan, and Jake felt like Galahad. In other words I found it difficult to read into the uniqueness of the characters. At the same time I also was not as immersed into the world building.
I guess I have to go back to waiting for the next A Kinda Fairytale book... :(
Decided to resort to Cassandra’s other books whilst waiting (impatiently) for the next instalment in A Kinda Fairytale.
I feel like this definitely had everything I love about Cassandra’s style written all over it - humorous characters, a head over heels in love MMC, grumpy side characters...
So why the lower star rating? It was just not as unique as A Kinda Fairytale whilst at the same time feeling very much like the characters from that series. Addy could very well have been Scarlett. Cade could very well have been Marrok. Meanwhile Deke screamed Trystan, and Jake felt like Galahad. In other words I found it difficult to read into the uniqueness of the characters. At the same time I also was not as immersed into the world building.
I guess I have to go back to waiting for the next A Kinda Fairytale book... :(
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