She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy

She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy
Cara North
Tease Publishing LLC
ISBN: 978-1-934678-04-6
Fiction, Contemporary Erotica
Reviewed by Dave Thompson

“Dallas” without the drill-bits, She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy is the much-anticipated second installment in author North’s Montana Cowboy series, the successor to last year’s excellent Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off.
The characters we met last time out all return... rich girl Bethany and her cowboy lover Jack, the would-be cuckold Rafe, young uns Buck and Jan, and at the center of the action Jack’s brother Heath, and his long-lost runaway bride Chance.
And it must be acknowledged that, if the book has any drawback, it’s the assumption that you already have some investment in its cast have, in other words, already read Tequila. (Which, of course, you should have.) The relationships into which we are plunged with such abruptness make a lot more sense if you remember what has come before, and the often infuriating behavior of most of the protagonists is more forgivable if, etc.
That said, Tractor is a very different style of story to its predecessor, launching into the action with the secrets all out in the open (well, most of them, anyway), and the mystery of the old man’s will already solved. Tequila was triumphant largely because of the almost slapstick conduct of two lovers who were desperate to conceal something from one another. Tractor, with its focus on the rebuilding of a shattered marriage (and the trust that goes with it), loses many of the laughs and, with it, a degree of the breathlessness that kept you on the edge of your seat until the final denouement.
In their place, a more questioning and mature tale develops, as Heath and Chance unexpectedly reunite in the local lock-up, then return home for one final night before they apply for a divorce. There, Chance peels away the layers that kept her from explaining her disappearance to her husband, seducing him first back to her bed, and then back into her heart. It’s a prickly process that Heath initially resists. But, with the help of the other women at the ranch, a trip to a sex shop at the local mall, and a lasciviously detailed liaison in the back of his truck, Chance finally cracks both her husband’s resolve and her own past insecurities.
A fascinating study of relationships bound up within a compulsive tangle of misunderstandings, Tractor leaves the reader hungry for the next installment in the tale and sends you back to reread Tequila while you’re waiting.