One look at the wide open sky, open and honest all around him, and Ben is hooked.Īnd then he meets Rance, with his sharp edges and blunt ways and his alpacas and his knitting and his magical, beautiful yarn factory.
So a move to the small town of Granby, Colorado may just be the best thing for him. A self proclaimed “Bug Man”, he cleans up computer code for game companies.
He is also a crusty, blunt and hard-to-get-along-with man.īen McCutcheon moves into his dead great-aunt’s one acre farm next door to Rance. And a buddy he visits every few months to take the edge off when he needs it. His alpaca ranch and yarn spinning business is successful. Rance Crawford is a simple man that has a simple life. Complicated makes you hungry for simple.” If you were going to read one book from the anthology I would 100% recommend you read this one, it is cute and even though we didn’t really get to know a lot about Ben or see him that much he was likeable And I only say that so you know why I gave 4 and not 5 stars.Īnd as much as I did enjoy this story, I don’t understand why it is in a Christmas anthology since it ends before thanksgiving but since it is one of the best (maybe even the best) stories released in the anthology I won’t complain about that other than this one run on sentence. This is also just probably me but the barn /animal references were just too much (too many of them used) for me and some were a little gross. Probably would have gave it five stars but I didn’t like Stanly and he was in too much of the book either in the scenes or Rance thinking about him. Ok story I liked both the main characters and although there was a lot of knitting and yarn talk none of it bored me or anything. *Copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review* This novella was super sweet and super fun. I also could have done without Rance calling his man-bits his "pee pee" <- things a grown man should never say! However, I'm being very nitpicky. I think I would have liked to get to know Ben a little more, but it is hard with single POVs to get the full scope of the other character. He was very adorable and I liked his instant chemistry with Ben. I have a weakness for big oafy men in M/M that have trouble expressing their emotions but are secretly fluff-balls inside (sub-genre much?), and Rance fit that description to a T. Rance sets about courting his new neighbor, Ben, by gifting him little wooly handmade trinkets. I am a sucker for a good build-up to physical intimacy and I got that here, which is rare in a novella. This really is a book about courting, which I adored. Amy Lane working her angst-free skills in an adorable novella about knitting men? What's not to love?
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