The Wild One (Choc Lit)

I have just swam through "The Wild Ones" by Janet Gover. You can buy it here. I don't think it was supposed to release till November, but y'all are lucky. It's available now. If you love horses and the Australian outback and a little bit of love, you'll enjoy this book.

Although this is the second installment in the Coorah Creek series, this is most definitely a standalone novel—which is a huge plus for me. After reading "The Wild One," I am going to be looking for the first Coorah Creek novel.

Perfect! Simply perfect!
This is rural romance just how it should be.

The story occurs in the outback town of Coorah Creek where everyone is just like family.
Dan has moved to the nearby Tyangi Park, as park ranger, to escape the nightmares that started after his tour of duty in Iraq. He prefers to live his life alone, cut off from everyone. That is until photographer Rachel Quinn arrives in town.

Gover focuses on PTSD in veterans and civilians, it is encouraging to know that this is being explored and made more open, also the culling of wild animals in our national parks. This is a very emotive topic and it is dealt with knowledgeably.

The story centres around four main characters of Dan, Quinn, Justin and Carrie each have their own separate stories but come together in a common cause of saving the wild brumbies. As they work together to save the brumbies they also help to heal each other.

The characters were easy going and immediately likeable. I was pulled into the story from the beginning. The writing and the dialogue was all so natural it flowed beautifully.

I loved the men in this story. They were sensitive but this didn’t detract from their masculinity. I was delighted that Quinn was a knitter (something that is usually portrayed as a bit geeky) and used it as therapy to ease her heartache.

I’m not a country girl at heart but the vivid descriptions made me want to grab my swag and go out there and sleep under the stars.

You don’t have to be a horse lover to be swept up in this heart-warming outback romance.

Even though this is book two in the Coorah Creek series the story stood well on its own with book one The Flight to Coorah Creek focusing on a different set of characters.

This is a heart-warming romantic tale set in the Australian Outback, about four people and a small town who come together to save the lives of a herd of wild horses, earmarked to be culled due to the damage they cause to the National Park. The main characters are all hiding, running, and living in fear from something dreadful in their past and this is not just a book about finding a companion and falling in love, but about finding inner strength, and learning to move on from the things that hold us back. I felt it also had something to say about the healing properties of teamwork, overcoming obstacles and of learning to work with the natural world, even when it throws hurdles in the way.

Despite the serious events that have made our main characters the people they are, this is a light, engaging romance and I never felt too emotional or worried that they would fail, so it perhaps lacked a little bit of true conflict. The background of the Australian Outback, and the small town of Coorah Creek, who all work together to solve this problem was a vivid setting that really tied the story together for me. A very enjoyable read - 4.5 stars.

My thanks go to Choc Lit who provided me with a copy of this title via NetGalley.

I usually do not like books that have two stories going at the same time it sometimes is confusing and you loose the story, however that is not the case with this book. The story is well written while it starts off with two main characters and builds from there, there are two others thrown in that makes the story just that much better. Four people who know nothing about each other are thrown together to help save horses and the whole town seems to come together to help them out in one way or another. How ever the four realize that the progress would be better if they can come together as friends and they start to form a bond, each one dealing with something that seems just a little to hard to over come, the trials they face seem impossible and you wonder if one more thing will deter them from getting to the goal. The story is a clean romance and I enjoyed that, even with that the chemistry was coming off the pages.The book became a real page turner, it draws you in from the beginning and just keeps going to the end. There really is not a dull point in the whole book. Even Love sometimes is not enough but the friendship formed in this book with each other and the town just alone make you fall in love with small towns. The author did an amazing job and you really could not go wrong adding this to your to be read pile.

I read many books and some I rush through reading. I have found that the books published by Choc Lit need to be savored like their symbol of a fine piece of dark chocolate. The Wild One by Janet Gover fits their high standard to a T.

I discovered the Coorah Creek Series a bit backwards reading the third book in the series first. From there I knew I wanted to read all. While each seem to take place in the amazing world of the Australian Outback, each focus in different. This makes it very easy to read them in any order. With the one dangerous aspect - that you will fall in love with this small town and want to return there again and again.

In Book 2 of the series, The Wild One four characters work together for a common good. Dan, Quinn, Justin and Carrie want to remove brumbies in the area to a safe place. Along the way is government meddling, help from others and some romance. Not wanting to give too much away, each reader should get to delight in the story themselves.

What I will say it is written so that you feel as if you are right there experiencing the same as the characters. Australia is a place I would dearly love to visit, now thanks to Janet Gover I feel as if I have. I can’t wait to go return there again through one of her books.

The publisher through Net Galley provided a copy.

A lovely heartwarming Australian Outback romance, full of gorgeous descriptions, engaging characters and a plot that keeps you hooked! Really enjoyed this one.

Dan was ordered to shoot the stallion who was the leader of the brumbies. But Dan just couldn’t do it. Brumbies are feral wild horses that were being very destructive in the small park Dan worked for. Dan is the park ranger for Tyangi Crossing National Park. Dan was a trained sniper and was former military with PTSD from his time in Iraq. Dan didn’t feel like he fit anywhere once released from the military for his PTSD. The he applied and got the job as park ranger and had been at the park for three years now. Quinn was a professional photographer who was trying to bury her memories of a bad time. Quinn drives a former military hummer and it is her home as well as her way of transportation. Quinn never left behind her laptop or her camera as they were her whole life. Quinn mainly shots scenic shots. However Quinn likes doing the ordinary and make it look extra ordinary. Also Quinn liked finding beauty in places that were plain or ugly. Quinn found her way to Dan’s park and as Dan aimed for the stallion she started the horses and they ran away. Quinn decides to take up the brumbies cause so they will not be killed. Quinn gets Dan on her side as he didn’t want to kill them either but didn’t want to lose his job. Quinn recruits Carrie for help. Carrie had loved horses and was an up and coming jockey with some wins already under her belt. But then there was a terrible fall and Carrie has recovered physically just not mentally as she in now afraid of horses the one thing she once loved. Carrie lacks in confidence and believes people are laughing at her. Carrie was in her own world of pain. Justin owns a horse farm and was determined to bring it back to the greatness it once had. There had been a fire when his father ran the farm and they had lost alot of horses. Justin needs an amazing horse to stud. These four diverse people come together to find a different answer for the brumbies. I really loved this story. The town coming together with the other four people to find an acceptable answer. Also you had two romances going on yet neither suffered and they were both made to work which is unusual. The plot was great and the writing was very good also. I liked the ups and downs of this story! I highly recommend.