A review by romanthiccreader
Ram Rugged: Aries by Melissa Thomas

2.0

I have been searching for a ram shifter book for awhile. I wanted to read something with a ram shifter to celebrate being an Aries and moving into Aries season. I also needed a cowboy romance to complete one of the challenges I'm doing this year, so this seemed absolutely perfect. It quickly devolved into a hate read. 

The puns are amazing!!! The dog that talks, amazing!! A woman named Mary running a lamb farm and have a coyote ex-husband, such a great start. 

BUT I had to check the publication date MANY times. I could not believe that a book published in 2018 had so much fat phobia and slut shaming. Simultaneously. It tells me I've been very insular with my reading choices, but like, I'm ok with that if it means I'm avoiding books with fat phobia and slut shaming.

I could go on. I have 25 highlights in this book and I didn't make a single one visible. 2 are just excellent punny chapter titles! 2 are heaving bosoms found in the wild. But the other 21 are cringy moments or just blatant contradictions in the text. It got rough there for a minute.

Overall, it's very short and it absolutely does fit the prompt of cowboy romance and ram shifter, which was ultimately what I was looking for. Buuuuuuut that's about it.