Maid of honor Dionna Reed comes to Royal, Texas to help her actor BFF plan her wedding. Because Ari and Xavier, the groom, are stuck in Hollywood, they ask Di to work with Xavier’s cousin, Tripp Noble. The best man, Tripp, plans to convince her that Royal’s the perfect setting for Ari and Xavier’s wedding event of the year—not Hollywood. Will he be able to keep his hands to himself while she’s in town?

Ryan’s snarky, humorous, emotional, and colorful dialogue and narrative style delightfully bring Ryan’s entertaining story and complex, relatable, and fallible characters to life. Her vibrant description makes the characters and story come alive in your mind. Ryan develops and evolves Dionna and Tripp’s connection and evolving romantic relationship with chemistry-filled, sweet, sexy, steamy, humorous, and intensely emotional interactions, banter, and love scenes. They’re complete opposites, but their attraction is fiery and intense.

Di’s an introverted Hollywood casting director, a sensible, perceptive, perfectionist, dry-witted movie geek from a movie biz family. While Di is a city girl now, she loves the summers spent on her grandparents’ farm. She’s been BFFs with Ari since middle school. Di and Ari are filming a movie about a Black cowboy. The heir apparent of his family’s ranch, Tripp, carries on their legacy and traditions and works to keep from losing it. Tripp’s an obstinate, charming, cocky, and sexy playboy rancher who’s a rebel cowboy that loves breaking the rules. Unlike Dionna, he doesn’t love ranching. But he is passionate about increasing the availability of information about Black Cowboys and their history.

The novel’s quick pacing and mostly lighthearted, humorous tone, with a bit of angst, combined with her description, characters, and natural-sounding dialogue, make it a page-turner. A Cowboy Kind of Thing is a funny, sweet, steamy, emotional, and sexy romance recommended for opposites attract, small-town, and wedding planning-themed romance fans.

Advanced review copy provided by HARLEQUIN - Romance via Netgalley for review.

I have to give credit to Reese Ryan for introducing me to Harlequin's Texas Cattleman's Club series and Royal, Texas. The series has been around for 14 years, spanning 18 subseries and over 100 books. All while allowing readers to be introduced to new authors and fall in love with countless main and secondary characters.

That being said, readers first met Tripp Noble in Reese's His Until Midnight (his sister Tess' story). He then appeared again in Secret Heir Seduction, where I met and fell for him. In that story, Tripp was an easygoing flirt who I knew needed his own story. In A Cowboy Kind of Thing, the first book in The Wedding series, Austin Charles Noble III aka Tripp meets and falls in love with Dionna Reed.

The Texas Cattleman's Club: The Wedding series centers around the wedding of Hollywood actress, Ariana Ramos, and Royal's own bestselling author Xavier Noble. When the filming of Ariana’s latest movie gets extended, Xavier decides he might as well also extend his world book tour. The problem is the two have already rescheduled their wedding twice and they don’t want to reschedule again. Also, the two want to get married in Royal but haven't made any wedding decisions. Xavier asks his cousin Tripp to help with the wedding planning because Tripp knows him well and knows what he likes and doesn’t. Plus, Tripp knows Royal and can make connections easily. Ariana asks her best friend and business partner Dionna to go to Royal and see if it can indeed meet their wants and visions for the wedding. That all sounds easy enough, except Dionna looks down on Royal, doesn’t think it can deliver a wedding befitting Ariana, and thinks Ariana is sacrificing her dream wedding to get married in Royal to make Xavier happy. Add to that, Tripp and Dionna are polar opposites in so many ways. Dionna views Tripp as the “town flirt who enjoys flying by the seat of his pants”. Tripp sees Dionna as a “Ms. Do-It-by-the-Book, let’s get all of our ducks in a row before we move forward.”. This whole plan has disaster written all over it. Until Tripp truly puts on the charm and shows Dionna that he’s a deeper person than she gives him credit for.

I honestly loved Tripp. I knew he had more than surface appeal. Dionna is/was a little uptight, but managed to loosen up. She’s afraid of love and trusting the wrong person with her heart. She’s also afraid to admit that she had Tripp pegged all wrong. I loved watching these two fall in love. Dionna helps Tripp to see that he can be more than he thinks he can be. Tripp shows Dionna that he’s someone she can count on.

Reese has definitely set this series up nicely. At least one of the main characters from each future book is mentioned so you get an idea of who they are and what they’re like. I seriously can’t wait for more opposites attract, fake relationships, and a surprise pregnancy.

~ Favorite Quotes ~

“I shouldn’t have to become someone else to fit in. I should just be myself.”

“The people who truly matter accept us for who we are.”

“Life is too short not to enjoy every possible moment.”

“It’s never too late to do something different with your life if that’s what you really want.”

“Because you don’t mean to hurt someone, it doesn’t mean they won’t end up hurt.”

“If you don’t tackle your emotions head-on, they’ll sabotage any future relationships you have.”

I received an ARC via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.
This is a fun, tropey category romance, part of the long running Cattleman’s Club. I like how this is a typical city-meets-country type story, but Reese Ryan easily makes the trope her own, Dianna and Tripp are endearing characters, and the tension between them is steamy and believable. Great both for lovers of the series and Reese’s other work.

It's a good opposites attract romance as advertised on the cover and I liked it. It's one I think others will enjoy.

This is my first Harlequin book of the year and, although I haven’t finished the Texas Cattleman’s Club previous series yet (only three left!), this story—the first one in the The Wedding series of the TCC franchise—gave me a vibe that it would be a good one. And my gut feeling was right about it, even though I’m a bit biased with the franchise (I’ve read almost all of the series included in it). A witty, sassy, funny and alluring love story who sets the bar high for the next installments of the series. A book you can read easily and a perfect pace and unforced transitions, perfect for a weekend read. With a smart writing with tons of personality and incredible main characters, Reese Ryan is officially in my Fetish Authors list.

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This is a Steamy Cowboy Romance, and this is the first book in the Texas Cattleman's Club: The Wedding series. This is a hot and steamy romance, and the two main characters have a lot of chemistry. I also really enjoyed the storyline, and I loved the characters. I was kindly provided an e-copy of this book by the publisher (Harlequin Desire) or author (Reese Ryan) via NetGalley, so I can give an honest review about how I feel about this book. I want to send a big Thank you to them for that.

The attraction of opposites and close proximity are the perfect tropes for this engaging story. Country meets city when Dionna Reed and Austin Charles Noble III, better known as Tripp, must come together to plan the perfect wedding festivities for their best friends, Ariana Ramos, actress, and Xavier Noble, author. Tripp is Tess’a brother from HIS UNTIL MIDNIGHT, a Texas Cattlemen’s Club story. This story is also a Texas Cattlemen’s Club story, but it is the start of a new series under that brand. A COWBOY KIND OF THING is the first story in The Wedding Series. Yes, fans, it’s set in Royal, Texas, the home of the Texas cattlemen.

As I said we follow Tripp and Dionna as they butt heads planning the one-of-kind wedding for the besties. Dionna would prefer the wedding to take place in L.A., the brides hometown. Tripp has to convince Dionna that Royal can handle the wedding and all wedding festivities. What happens as the couple become more involved in the planning is what you’ll discover when you read this entertaining story.

I liked this story and I recommend it for your reading pleasure. The Texas Cattlemen Club series is a long running series. If you aren’t familiar with the stories, I suggest you check them out. In the meantime, pick up a copy of Reese Ryan’s book, A COWBOY KIND OF THING. It definitely lives up to the theme of the series: “A luxurious world of bold encounters and sizzling chemistry’.

I have yet to pick up a Reese Ryan romance and not enjoyed it. Nevermind that I am picky and I don't grab everything, but I am also a good picker of steamy romance featuring Black characters.

This book was a delightful Sunday afternoon read. Great writing, excellent pacing (hate a book that drags and has a saggy middle- the plot carries through strong from beginning to end), just the right amount of steamy scenes and an ending that makes me long for more of the book. This is book 1 in a series where other books are written by different authors, so there is a bit of a cliffhanger, but this book gives me happy, warm feelings and I'm satisfied. It also gave me some inspiration for books I'm working on.

Sometimes Harlequin romances can be stale and formulaic- that can be comforting or stifling. This one is comforting. Well done!

Casting director Dionna is in Texas to help plan her BFF's wedding. She clashes with best man Tripp, who's trying to convince her that his small town can produce a glamorous event to rival Hollywood. When opposites attract, will it turn to love?

There's a strong spark between Dionna and Tripp from the beginning, but it takes time for them to trust. She's something of an introvert, while he's a charmer. They're both kind, open, and respectful to each other. They expect the affair to be short-term, but come to realize that they fit together better than they expected. It's a steamy, heartwarming, and uplifting book.

Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC I received. This is my honest and voluntary review.

Reese Ryan has another best seller on her hands. She has an awesome way of pulling in the readers and giving them the feeling of being front and center and rooting the characters on. Reese Ryan kicks off the “Texas Cattleman’s Club The Wedding”. This is an entertaining read that is fast-paced, easy and a quick read. The characters are witty and awesome. The plot is great that takes the readers on a journey of romance for Tripp and Dionne. Tripp is the brother of Tessa Noble who we met early in “Until Midnight”. I’m thrilled to finally be getting Tripp’s journey to an HEA. Tripp and Dionne have being meeting via tele communicating along with Ari who is Dionne’s best and boss and Xavier who is Tripp’s cousin. The two are helping plan the wedding of Ari and Xavier and in the process the two are finding out a lot about each other and findings themselves going from enemies to friends to lovers. Ari is all set to have her wedding in LA and Xavier her future is fine with the plans until his cousin Tripp talks the couple into having the wedding in the small town of Royal Texas. As Tripp is doing his best to convince Dionne that Royal Texas is the perfect place to have the wedding the couple are surely falling for each other rather hard and enjoying themselves in the process.

This is an awesome read and if you’ve never read a Reese Ryan book before pick of “Texas At Midnight” where you will meet Tessa who is Tripp’s sister and next pick up “A Cowboy Kind Of Thing” where we meet up with Tripp again or just pick up both books and sit back and enjoy yourself. You will not be disappointed.

I received an ARC of “A Cowboy Kind Of Thing” and I am leaving my review voluntarily.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I was unsure about this book when I started it but I have grown to love Reese Ryan’s writing style. Dionne and Tripp share the same sentiments when it comes to each other. Sometimes they can’t stand each other and other times they wanna know what each other tastes like. Dionne is coming off of a two year relationship that failed and Tripp is Royal’s own playboy. The two take their best friends place as prior engagements lead them to have to miss the final leg of their wedding arrangements. The two finally react on their feelings and the story is great from there.

Thank you to Harlequin-Romance and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ebook in exchange for an honest review.

I was provided an arc e-copy by the publisher Harlequin Desire and the author
Reese Ryan So I can give a honest review thank you do much for sending me a copy.

A Cowboy Kind of Thing.. Was very hot and steamy this book was just okay. For me I wish there was more of a story I love Ryan Reese story telling but this was a 3 stars 🌟🌟🌟

Happy Reading
Lisa 📚