Trusting Sydney

The Temptation Saga, Book 6

By: Helen Hardt

Narrated by: Kendall Taylor

Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

Sam O'Donovan is bored with his stale life in Montana. When his brother-in-law offers him a great job and a cut of the McCray Ranch in Colorado, he's ecstatic. This is the change he needs. As for beautiful Sydney Buchanan resurfacing? That's icing on the cake.

Sydney's back for one reason and one reason only. She needs to win as many rodeo purses as she can to help her parents run their struggling ranch in Nevada. She doesn't bank on running into Sam O'Donovan. All the sparks they shared five years earlier are still there, but so much else has changed. If only Sam could understand the decisions she made during their time apart...and trust her.

©2016 Helen Hardt (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved

Successful Love Story

Book 6 & all the guys got the Girls they wanted. . . . .

Started off great and then went off the rails

Spoilers *************** It started good but then became overly ridiculous with the fiancé, then the mafia, and Sam is so unlikeable. And everyone seemed to glance over the fact a 30 year old man got a 19 year old teenager pregnant but every thing was her fault?!

Building trust

Lots and of action. Sometimes too much action as it gets a bit over the top. It is a bit like a soap opera with all the drama.

I never quite got Sydney and Sams relationship. He’s so back and forth, and all the sudden he loves her and wants to get married.

Overall, a decent listen with an adequate narrator. I’ve listened to all the books in this series so far, so she is doing something right!

Corny

I am terribly confused. The end was a complete let down. The secrets revealed nothing. Sydney and Sam had no real history. No love story was built. No explanation for the ex-fiancé’s was revealed. The reader didn’t help the story either. I am confused mostly as to how this was published with decent ratings. What the heck am I missing here.

Astonishing!

I love how different the book was to the others in the series. It was so interesting to hear it unfold. I loved it.

Rewarded for pawning off responsibility

Character flaws normal makes stories interesting and gives the characters believability but the main protagonist in this story is someone I would never want to know. I honestly couldn't stand her throughout the entire story. It was one completely selfish decision after another. Avoid this one, stick with the rest of the series.

Simply horrible!

Spoilers********The books in this series are becoming cookie-cutter and stale, but Trusting Sydney is simply horrible! Sydney and Sam had a one-night stand 5 years ago and meet again at the rodeo where she is competing. Her mother, father and younger brother, Duke, are all there for the week. When Sam and Sydney cross paths their passion is still there, until Sydney's lies begin to unravel her life. They are outlandish, trite and stupid, but they keep on coming. Her brother is really her son. Sam is the father who, of course, was never told he has a son. Her mother and father refuse to let Sam be a part of Duke's life because they are the "real parents." Sam can't trust Sydney (duh!) and Sydney doesn't plan to keep Sam around because she can't hurt her parents by taking away their child. Oh, that's not the worst! The morning after she and Sam reunite, there's a knock on her door and it's....wait for this....her fiancé!! Her mom and dad abscond with Duke and never intend to bring him back to his "sister!" Sam almost dies in a car crash, Sydney finds him and her father brings Duke back. Her mother is hospitalized for mental illness....there must be a happy ending, right? NO! Sydney lets her parents raise Duke as their child and she is "Auntie Sydney" and Sam is "Uncle Sam!" Sam's sister, Dusty (one of my favorite characters), asks Sydney if Duke will ever know that she's his mother and Sam's his father...."Maybe one day when he's old enough..." There's one more story in this series and I just can't subject myself to this misery once again. The only thing that saves this is the excellent narration by Kendall Taylor.

Great Story

Loved how it went. For a moment I thought Sydney's mom had put out a hit on Sam. Whew!!!! Glad it all Worked out.

Awesome read

Trusting Sydney

Omg, I freaking knew it, in my gut. That her brother Duke was not her brother Duke. He was actually her son. And she's pretending like it was her son. And the baby father is Sam. Ha I knew it I was waiting on that t9 x9me out and dang if her ex-fiance didn't blow her cover. That's what she gets, but she was actually going to tell him (Sam) until Rod knocked on her hotel door. I believe that Rod guy needed to begin. I feel like if things don't go his way he likes to ruin things for people.

Hmm, interesting she tells Sam and Rod she gave the baby up for adoption. Hmm, I wonder this kid is in my mind I still think it was Duke. IDC, IDC. I'll see when I get further in the book. Ha, and I knew I www right again Duke is his child. I'm glad that he was still in the family and his grandparents were taking care 9f him, and he wasn't adopted into another family. Though I still think Sam would've fault through hell and water t9 get him back.


I would've done the same thing Sam was doing with getting his son and claiming him. She (Sydney) may have given up her rights, but he didn't. I would fight too. Both Sid and her mom upset because of what Sam was trying to do, I mean why you mad?! You kept this man away from his child he didn't know about over something ridiculous because, she assumes he already had too much on his plate like a child, please. Plus, I'm petty I would take Duke away from them, but I still think he should have rights and allow to spend time with his son and keep his son and her parents could be grandparents not allowing Sam the right to get his son is so wrong.

I like how in the end Sam and Sydney did what was best for Duke. I liked that, its funny how they assume it may be her father but all along, it was her mother. I figure that because she was the one who didn't want Sam around his own son. And bribing her husband into leaving town and taking Duke away from her own daughter and his own dad. When Sam was only trying to get his son because he loves him, I wouldn't blame him for that, and I was glad when Sydney dad called her and left her a voicemail telling her that he will bring Duke back. To her and let her and Sam take care of him until his mother I mean to his wife get out of the institution that she was in because she was sick. I was shocked that she wanted Sam killed just because he wanted his son and that is so crazy in the end is book really good, and I'm glad I finished it

Out of the series this is the worst of the women

This woman is the biggest pain to listen to. I was dragging through, forcing myself to continue to the end. The rest of the story was okay but Sydney is awful. I don't know anyone that stupid.