“it was like the air knew it was just the two of us now, because it started to hum”

lyla sage somehow manages to pack a story into 200 pages and leave you feeling completely satisfied. i truly felt as if i were living as wes and ada. i felt all their thoughts and saw parts of myself in each of them. ada’s internal monologue was witty and funny, and i was laughing along with her. on the contrary, her icy front and hesitation of getting too close to others was very evident and something i could relate to. as for wes, i have never met a male main character that i felt more in tune with. as someone who also struggles with MDD, i felt understood and heard and it was refreshing to feel connected to a male character in this way. as for the romance, i couldn’t get enough of the tension and the banter. the how to lose a guy in 10 days reference and scene did it for me i was smiling so big.

this book is fast paced, and i don’t have a single complaint about lyla’s beautiful writing. i couldn’t put this down. and who doesn’t love a small town cowboy romance !

so grateful for this arc, sending so much love to netgalley, random house publishing group & lyla xoxo

I loved Done and Dusted (book 1) and went into this one with high expectations. I was NOT disappointed!!! This story follows Emmy’s brother, Wes, and Ada, the designer taking on Wes’s pet project. The characters were just as lovable as in book one (Wes even more so) plus the addition of Ada, a super relatable badass. The spice was perfect, the tropes (grumpy/sunshine, found family) were expertly executed, and the mental illness rep was extremely well done. I can’t recommend this gem enough!!

A heartfelt thank you to NetGalley and Random House for this amazing ARC!

Wow wow wow!! Lyla Sage does it again!! I loved loved loved this book I couldn't stop reading and I read it in one entire sitting! The messages of romance, friendship, insecurities! It was just phenomenal. The sexy cowboy banter!! Like I'm so speechless I literally loved this read just as much as I loved done and dusted. Lyla sages writing is just so easy to read, and her female characters are so incredibly relatable. I loved this book!

Very good! An excellent follow-up to Done & Dusted. I *think* I liked Emmy *& Brooks better, but Wes & Ada were still fantastic. Good chemistry, great mental health rep - I will definitely be reading book 3 in this series.

Mutual pining, mental health representation, career focused FMC, no third act break up, and of course baby cows.

Ada finds herself 2 years after her divorce at a ranch in Wyoming on her biggest interior design project yet. The project that she knows will be the thing that takes her career to the next level. What she doesn't know is that her boss on the project is the mystery cowboy that pushed her against the bar wall in the hottest kiss of her life. Ada fights to maintain her professionalism as she struggles with her own self doubt and her feelings for her new boss.

This was such a fun really fun read. I loved the entire cast of characters but specifically loved Ada. She is such an independent FMC who was able to maintain her independence while also learning to let people in. The romance between Wes and Ada was sweet and satisfying. I specifically loved the mental health representation and realities of living with depression.

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I wasn’t expecting to cry over a cowboy romance, and yet here we are. Swift and Saddled is everything I want in a romance: fabulous characters, lots of heart, and electric chemistry. I’m already putting it in my top tier of romance books because it was just that good. I’ll admit I read this before reading Done and Dusted so I can’t compare the two, but I will be running to my nearest bookstore to pick it up ASAP.

Lyla Sage takes us back to Meadowlark and the Ryder family in “Swift and Saddled”, the second in the Rebel Blue Ranch Series. When I read “Done and Dusted” last fall, I have been impatiently waiting on the second Rebel Blue book.

Weston Ryder and Ada Hart have my heart!! Ada comes to Meadowlark and Rebel Blue Ranch to work with Weston to remodel the original “big house”, and to escape the confines of the life she’d found herself living in California.

Lyla managed to take two broken people and make them whole again through the twists and turns of falling in love with each other. Ada isn’t the typical sunshine in a bottle FMC to the grumpy, standoffish MMC. Ada has been burned in the past, she walks to the beat of her own drum and is happy in her own skin, regardless of whether anyone else is happy with her. She tries so hard to push people away because she doesn’t want to be hurt again and also because she doesn’t believe anyone could want her exactly how she is. Weston Ryder isn’t your typical MMC either. He isn’t completely a sweetheart cinnamon roll, but he’s not the resident grump either. Wes struggles with depression and he’s fiercely loyal to his family. I’m thankful to Lyla for incorporating the healthy discussion of mental health issues within this story. As a mental health advocate, reading how open Wes can been about his struggles made my heart sing. Ada and Wes are sweet and frustrating and you can’t help falling in love with them.

I once again, can’t wait for the next installment of Rebel Blue, with “Lost and Lassoed”!

If you love cowboy romance, small towns, found family, he falls first, opposites attract, dual POV and mental health representation, then this is the book for you!

Favorite Quotes:

“Wes looked so happy. But I guess depression wasn’t really about what you looked like or how you appeared but more about what you felt like.”

“James Taylor,” I said. There was nothing more calming than James Taylor, right?” This one got me, oh Lyla, James Taylor had been my calm since my mama sang me to sleep with “Sweet Baby James”. You won me over forever with this!

“So when you feel that sweet spot, you’re going to give more on the gas,” he said. “A little give and a little go.” “Are you”—I looked at him, knowing a smile was working its way up my cheeks—“quoting How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days?”

“Kissing Wes was the closest thing I’d ever had to a religious experience. It felt like the sky opened up and stars started falling around us, like lightning struck every place where our skin touched and like my heartbeat had turned into a thunderstorm.”

“The little things are the big things, Ada. They’re the things all the big things are made of. I might not know you all the way, but I want to, and I’m just asking you to give me a chance to do that.”

“You say you’re not nice, or warm, or bright, or any of these other stupid fucking words that people use to describe the sun, but I never asked you to be the sun.”

“You’re the moon,” he said. “And I’m the tides. You pull me in without even trying, and I come to you willingly. I always will.”

Thank you to Lyla Sage, Random House Publishing Group, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review the ARC of “Swift and Saddled”.

I absolutely adored this romance!! From the cover to characters and story, everything worked for me. The writing was engaging and Sage made me fall in love with Wes and Ada. Such a cozy read!

Am i obsessed with this series? Yes, yes I am.

Will I keep rereading this and Done and Dusted over and over again? Yes, yes I will.

I loved Done and Dusted and I couldn’t wait for this book! I loved every minute of it and couldn’t put it down. Ada is a strong female MC and Wes is the swoonest cowboy. After a steamy kiss in a bar, they think they will never see each, but things get interesting when they realize they have to work together. 😏

Grab this one to witness all the steam and shenanigans.

Thank you to The Dial Press and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book!

Firstly, I just need to say I have become so obsessed with Rebel Blue Ranch it's no joke!!!! The characters, the setting, the vibes, I love it all!!!! I really loved Done and Dusted a LOT, so I was curious to see how this would compare for me, and I'm so happy to report I ate up every last page just as much as I did in the previous book!

This one follows Wes and Ada, and they were truly giving black cat x golden retriever excellence. I really loved getting to know Wes a lot more as a character in this book and understanding his motivations instead of only seeing him as the happy-go-lucky ball of sunshine he outwardly is. The mental health rep was so well done!!! It was also so fun meeting Ada and seeing an outsider fit into the Rebel Blue dynamic. she definitely had her walls up at first, but I loved seeing not only her development as she worked through that but also how Wes gave her the space to work through her issues at her own pace. They just felt so real as individuals and I really appreciate that! One thing I'm always going to love about these books is the communication — even if it takes a while to get there, no conflict feels too silly or contrived because it eventually gets worked out in a realistic way.

But of COURSE the standout is the small community of people we get to know and love even more in this book. Who wouldn't want to be a part of the Ryder family and their inner circle???? All the group scenes were everything, and part of what makes this book is so great is how much I truly enjoy every single character. Everyone is so fleshed out and I don't find myself feeling indifferent towards any of them, which is a pretty difficult feat to manage. Overall, this is such a great story and if you love small town romance, I cannot emphasize enough that this series is a must read!!!!

ALSO I NEED GUS AND TEDDY'S BOOK YESTERDAY it's no joke. Like I actually do not know how I'm going to wait for it, it's easily one of my most anticipated releases of the rest of the year now. Counting down the days until I have Lost and Lassoed in my hands!

I’d like to thank Random House Publishing Group, NetGalley, and Lyla Sage for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!🫶🏻

Oh man where to beginnn🤠 I adored this book with my absolute whole heart. I mean it. It was phenomenal. No words. Lyla Sage has done an amazing job with this one and I am so excited for the third book!! Wes and Ada were so damn adorable from their very fist meet in that bar🥺 Ada was so feisty and so lovable I adored her so much. I literally wanna be best friends with her so bad. Wes???? he was the most adorable cowboy I’ve ever read about!! A pure heart of gold towards Ada and so damn soft with her and so adorableeeee with herrr😭 he always took care of her🫶🏻 this book was that good that I sprinted to get myself a physical copy!!! I’ll be thinking about this one for a good while🥺🫶🏻

5 yeehaw stars!!!🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠

Where do I begin?! first off, thank you netgalley for this arc, I was so excited when I saw it!

This book makes me want to be in a small town and have myself a cowboy! Wes was everything I didn’t know I needed in an mc, he was the perfect book boyfriend, and Ada was so badass,I think I’m in love with her too! This was wholesome, made me cry because it was soft and felt like a warm hug at times. I loved everything about this and I CANNOT wait for the next book!!

I’ve been swiftly saddled!

Stunning. Ada Hart is my soul character ❤️‍🔥 I have been waiting forever for a fmc that’s not the bright light in a wounded man’s dark world. Ada is so incredibly written, she has so much grit and realness that I cried like a little baby. She is a recovered pick me girl and the most self aware character I’ve read in a long time. Thank you Lyla Sage for showimg women that even if they’re the moon, their sun will make them shine.
Two books are all I need to know that Meadowlark, WY is my bookish home!!! This book gets a 4.5/5 ⭐️from me because I was foaming at the mouth for more 😭
What to expect:
✨cowboy romance
✨ small town
✨ mental health representation
✨ Taylor Swift & Heartland references

P.S. I am Amos Ryder’s #1 fan <3

Massive thank you to Lyla Sage, The Dail Press, and NetGalley for this eARC in exchange for my honest review! 💖

I LOVED THIS BOOK! Ada and Wes are so cute. I love how Wes is such a good hearted guy and takes care of Ada while giving her the reassurance she needs. He's a gentlemen through and through. I loved the force proximity and push and pull between the two. I also found Ada and Wes to be very relatable in this book. Ada is stubborn and reserved and has social anxiety. I think that is something many readers can relate to in their everyday lives. I also love how this also touches on a toxic marriage and the struggles that arise after coming out of said toxic marriage. I can also relate to Wes when he mentions his depression and how some days are darker than others and how he has to take medication and go to therapy. This book is heartwarming, spicy and swoon worthy. It has all the tropes I like in a small town romance. This book makes me want to move to Wyoming and live on a ranch. I can't wait to see what the 3rd book will bring! I'm ready for Gus' story!

Favorite quotes:
"That's it Sweetheart, take what you need"

"He was like the sun. No matter what, he would keep coming up."

“Open your eyes, Ada. There’s no one coming, no one to catch us. You can’t run away from me here. I want you to look at me when we come together.”

“Those city boys don’t know how to fuck you right, do they?”

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was a highly anticipated read for me, I really enjoyed Done and Dusted last year so was super excited to read Swift and Saddled.
I was not disappointed with this! It touched on some tougher topics that some books tend to avoid and I loved our main characters dearly.
We also got some more interaction with some of my faves from Done and Dusted like Brooks and Emmy, as well as Amos, Teddy and Gus.

Overall was a great small town, cowboy romance.
I can’t wait for this series to continue at this point, Lyla’s smashing it.

Lyla Sage has truly done it again! This story really kept the pages turning and I was so invested in the plot in addition to the development of the characters and their romance. I might like this one more than Done and Dusted - it was a very very compelling read for me.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌶️🌶️

”You’re the moon”, he said. “And I’m the tides. You pull me in without even trying and I come to you willingly. I always will.”

Y’all, I am back in my cowboy romance era, and this book DELIVERED!

Dare I say I loved Swift & Saddled even more than Done & Dusted? Yes, yes I dare. Wes was the absolute perfect MMC and he’ll be living in my head rent free from now on, thank you very much miss Sage.

He remembers her favorite foods and makes them for her? 🥹
He’s patient, kind, and gentle, but also likes to talk dirty in the sheets? 🥵
He’s honest and vocal about his depression and wants to communicate? 🫠

“I see you, Ada. I always see you, even when you won’t look at me.”

I absolutely loved Ada’s character development. She starts off a little prickly and apprehensive due to her past relationship and upbringing, but she’s an absolute sweetheart and falls head over heels for hot cowboy Wes. Reading about them falling in love was absolutely amazing!

Things I loved:

🤠 He falls first
🤠 He’s technically her boss
🤠 Found family (I just love the Ryders so much)
🤠 Black cat x golden retriever energy

“At his core, Weston Ryder was gentle, and I thought that was the best thing that a man could be.”

Thank you Random House Publishing Group for the ebook ARC in exchange for an honest review.

My first cowboy romance and wow, did I ever love this!!! This romance feels so sweet and pure. I love that it showcases a MMC that is great at communicating and allows the FMC to work through her trauma. I was so completely hooked throughout this entire book and could not put it down. I loved their love story and am looking forward to reading about Gus and Teddy next!!

This wasn't as great as the previous book but it was still really good. It captures everything I love about hte romance genre: there's humor and steamy moments, along with tackling some serious subjects.

I enjoyed returning to the ranch and seeing characters from the last book. The writing is vivid and I can easily imagine the scenery in and around this small town.

Ada and Wes are hot 'n heavy from the get go. There was strong chemistry and I was rooting for them the whole time. While this is focused on their love story, there's also emphasis on putting oneself first and pursuing dreams.

I anxiously await the next book in the series!

The highly coveted sequel to Done and Dusted did not miss the mark! Ada Hart has a hot new job, and a fresh start, waiting for her Meadowlark, Wyoming. After months of preparation, she's ready to take on the renovation of an old house on the Rebel Blue Ranch. What she's not ready for is the hot cowboy (and her new boss) that quickly captures her attention. Wes Ryder is smart, kind, charming and not at all what he seems on the surface. Plus did I mention he's a hot cowboy?

I feel like this book was made for hopeless romantics. A ranch in Wyoming. A cowboy/rancher who saves a baby calf. A found family feel. And a love story that had me curling my toes and squealing with happiness. I absolutely adored this book. I love Ada, she's strong but definitely has some insecurities to work through, and she's passionate about her job. And ya'll, Wes!? A dreamboat. I love love love him. He's cute & romantic, and FALLS. FIRST. This book is perfect.

Thank you to Random House for my ARC - I devoured it in less than 5 hours.

Lyla Sage knows how to write a story. I hope everyone loves this book as much I did!