Review: Colters’ Woman by Maya Banks
Reviewed by Zelda Gillian
Rating: 
(4 Books)
“A Quick, Romantic Read with a Twist of Ménage à Quatre “
The Plot: In this first book of Maya Banks’ Colters’ Legacy series, we meet the Colter brothers—Adam, Ethan and Ryan. Adam is the strong and domineering elder; Ethan is the more-sensitive middle-child and Ryan is the quiet, brooding youngest.
The brothers together run a hunting lodge in the Colorado mountains and have been waiting for a long time to find the right woman… yes, woman…
with whom to settle down and start a family. Due to some strange inexplicable genetic anomaly, Colter brothers have historically been predisposed to share one woman, and this generation is no different. When down-and-out Holly miraculously shows up lost and nearly frozen-to-death in a ditch in front of the Colters’ lodge, Adam, Ethan and Ryan all knew right away that she was the one. But Holly has some of her own problems to solve before she can ride off into the Colorado sunset with these cowboys; namely, oh, her murderous Mafioso husband. Easy peasy. But, never fear, with the Colter brothers taking care of her, she is in very, very good hands… six of them, to be exact. Who could ask for more?
Zelda’s Take: It’s funny. I have no idea why I initially picked up this book, as it was not on my TBR list and I have way too many books on my TBR list to justify just picking something up on the fly… but I’m a sucker for a Kindle freebie and took the bait.
I was SO glad I did! The Colter brothers are some of the most sensitive and loving men I’ve ever read about. They treat Holly as if she were a precious gem (so much so that I find it a little hard to believe that any men would be so perfect… but, hey, a girl can dream, right?). I was so smitten with them all that I found I quickly forgot that they were even brothers, something that, I admit, made me do a double take at first.
I thought that the brothers’ individual personalitites were pretty well developed and the drama of Holly and her evil husband, while a bit far-fetched, still felt integral to the story, and was not so contrived as some of Banks’ other peripheral plotlines. And, while the sex scenes were hot, hot, hot and a’plenty, I didn’t feel that the book was one long, rolling love-making marathon either, which was refreshing. The romance was top-notch and I personally fell in love with all of the characters.
All in all, this was a quick and refreshing romantic read that I’m so glad I picked up. It was a great way to start out the summer!
Zelda Gillian is a wife, a mother and a lover, likes strong espresso, stiff corsets and never strays far from her Kindle.
