seriously romantic: saddle up by a.m. arthur

saddle up continues the clean slate ranch series, and finally tells us miles and reyes's story. from the earlier books, wild trail and roped in we know that both miles and reyes are carrying around bad things from their pasts. how they overcome them and find their way to each other is the heart of this story.

one of the things i found so refreshing about this, is that from the beginning both miles and reyes are honest about their interest and attraction to one another. the issues between them are more about timing, than anything else. miles has been dealing with a cycle of abuse that being at the clean slate ranch is finally helping him break. he needs to find his way to solid ground before opening his heart of someone.

reyes cherishes the ground miles walks on. there is nothing he wouldn't do for the other man. but there is this dark secret that weighs him down. and until he can actually open himself up to the people who matter most to him, there's no way that he can move on from that. i will say this, his secret is bad. but his culpability in the events of the past was negligible. yes, he didn't intervene in a situation he knew was wrong. but he was a scared teenager who had every right to think that his intervention could have been a death sentence. i'm not saying he is absolved of everything. and i understood why miles felt like his image of reyes as a safe space was rocked. but i also felt like miles would have also understood that reyes wasn't to blame for what happened. he's not innocent, but he's not guilty either.

i don't know. maybe i'm being too lenient? maybe i should be as outraged as miles and wes are? i was horrified, but i also felt and understood reyes's terror. i understood why he felt guilty, but i also didn't think that all the blame rested on him.

in spite of that dark moment, this was an enjoyable entry in the clean slate series. and while this closes out the stories for the three main friends, mack, colt and reyes, i can see a future for the series with characters like robin and ernie and shawn.

**saddle up will publish on september 17, 2018. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/carina press in exchange for my honest review.

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