This Ain't Our First Rodeo by Liara Tamani 🐎❤️
Pub Date: February 3, 2026
Many thanks to Colored Pages Book Tours, Epic Reads, Netgalley and Liara Tamani for the gifted copies + the opportunity to share this book with you guys 🤠📚
SYNOPSIS:
This Ain’t Our First Rodeo is a contemporary western love story full of bulls, brawls, and horses. It’s a tender second chance cowboy romance about family, friendship, mistakes, and the blessings of choosing to love anyway. Black cowboys and cowgirls like Josie and Shawn have long helped shape the American West—a legacy that shines in Liara Tamani’s storytelling. Her writing is quick-witted, swoony, and authentic, with characters who are easy to love and hard to forget.
REVIEW:
This Ain’t Our First Rodeo is such an adorable read. Not only do readers watch Shawn and Josie navigate this beautifully complicated love thang, we get a glimpse of the rodeo + cowboy culture. I learned so much! And when reading about the Ranch, I could envision it, smell it, and feel it. Seeing those beautiful horses in my mind made me want to saddle up and ride, too! 🤠
I also love how we see Shawn and Josie learn each other while also learning more about themselves. Their morals and values are presented to us. Then, we see how life and circumstances affect how they uphold those values.
Shawn and Josie had great chemistry, no doubt. I love how they considered each other. And I smiled inwardly at each warm gesture shared. But, as with most YA romance I read, I was fussing at the book during their "miscommunications." Overall, I enjoyed this one, y'all ❤️
I recommend This Ain’t Our First Rodeo to those who enjoy a light love story, appreciate the Rodeo + cowboy culture, and still wonder "what if?" about the cutie you had an encounter with as a teen way back when.
Thanks to Liara Tamani, I am making it my mission to attend the rodeo in Houston at least once. I will also think of Shawn and Josie each time I eat doughnut intestines loaded with strawberries & powdered sugar. ❤️
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