Synopsis
from back cover:
SOMETIMES
ALL LOVE NEEDS IS A LITTLE LUCK
Allie
Logan isn't the type to land a hot hunk of cowboy. Truth is, she's
given up on dating since shedding her no-good ex. But the new owner
of the most ramshackle ranch in Texas might just change her mind
about that. He's six-foot-plus of tall, dark, and charming—the kind
of guy who could make a girl throw caution to the wind . . . or the
kind of guy who could break her heart.
Blake
Dawson hopes he can make Lucky Penny Ranch finally live up to its
name, but the property needs a ton of work. Allie and her carpentry
skills are his best shot at getting things in order. Besides the fact
that her brown eyes and dangerous curves have him roped and tied. Now
Blake only needs to convince her that a wild cowboy can be tamed by
love—and she's just the one to do it
Stats
for my copy: Mass market paperback, Forever, 2015.
How
acquired: Christmas gift
First
line: The Lucky Penny had never lived up to its name and
everyone in Texas knew it.
My
thoughts: Fun fun fun! I'm
coming to associate that word with Carolyn Brown. Fun characters, fun
situations, fun reading! Blake Dawson moves onto the Lucky Penny
Ranch to start clearing land and get the placed fixed up before his
brother arrives in the summer with the first herd of cattle. The only
issue I had with Blake was his name. What with him being a cowboy and
all the country songs referenced, I kept picturing Blake Shelton, and
I think I flipped the book closed several times to look at the cover
picture, trying to get Shelton out of my head.
Blake
has a reputation for being wild. Here in Dry Creek he hopes to shed
that reputation and become a respected and welcome member of the
community. But with every pretty woman who shows up at his door (and
half the town shows up with food to welcome him), he automatically
slips into his old persona of the flirty dirty cowboy, and has to
keep reminding himself he doesn't want to be that person.
When
Blake first meets Allie, driving a van with a carpentry company's
name on the side, he asks her to look into fixing up his house. He
assumes that some male member of her family is the carpenter, but
once he realizes it is Allie herself I liked how he just took it in
stride and didn't act surprised or amazed.
Allie
and Blake were great together. Neither is looking for a relationship,
and I loved watching them banter together, lust after each other and
slowly realize and come to accept their true feelings for each other.
I like characterization over plot, and Ms. Brown is good at creating
multiple characters who are all individual and unique. Well, most of
them – the three gossips were pretty much all the same but they
added lots of color to the story!
I
grew up in Texas, and when I read a book like this it makes me wonder
what the hell I was thinking to shun the cowboys back in the day!
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