Review: Elicits chuckles and snorts -- a fun-loving, sassily-written love story Texan style!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2014
“A hot man, a headstrong woman, and sizzling chemistry set against a homey Texas backdrop—Browning’s contemporary debut has all the assets that count!” -Ruthie Knox, USA Today bestselling author of Flirting with Disaster“Sinfully hot, sassy, and laugh-out-loud hilarious—everything a southern romance should be!” -Macy Beckett, author of the Sultry Springs seriesBook Summary:Eden Durant hasn’t always been Eden Durant. She’s made a fresh start in Shelbyville, Texas, far from her mother’s notoriety. Running the Paradise Garden Café is as much excitement as Eden wants—or it was, until she meets Beck Childress. Although he’s the one man who could expose her past, she’s willing to open up enough to see if he might be her future.Chief Deputy Childress is determined to get to know the real Eden, when he isn’t busy cleaning up after the sheriff and running in the election to replace him. When several men fall sick after eating in Eden’s café, he investigates even as her mysterious past raises both his suspicions and his protective instincts.As their relationship heats up, so do the pressures of Beck’s campaign. When Eden’s secrets are revealed, jeopardizing his dream of becoming sheriff, he’ll need to choose: serve and protect the town he loves or the woman who makes it home.Book Review: Man oh man is that what those Texans are made of? This was absolutely a hoot to read. We Oregonians have some pretty silly sayings, but so many events were compared to stuff that made me chuckle or yes, even snort.For example,“…the adrenaline in his system caught like a match thrown on an oil slick.”“…she was like a bat that bounced sonar off him.”“Beck had no way of knowing that men trying to protect her for her own good rubbed her like an emery board on a hangnail.”Author Kelsey Browning makes pure fun reading with her sassy, comical, sometimes vulgar, nevertheless laughable narration and thoughts the characters have which we are lucky enough to be privy to. Whoa! Sometimes it would leave me blinking, raised eyebrows and big-eyed! The story brings together two likeable people when close to each other sparks fly and fireworks erupt with hormones on overdrive. The pictures the author delivers us are really hilarious.The story itself was well plotted, no dull moments, nor could I skip sex scenes (they were just too hot!). I preoccupied myself, thank God, trying to figure out who the villain of the story was. There were several likely candidates.Eden is a sweetheart with a wicked sense of humor and a past she’d rather keep buried. Events take her down a path of either sink or swim. She chooses realize that enough is enough. She can’t let her new life get destroyed by the past she thought she buried five years ago.Beck was one fun-loving, smart, honorable, and straight forward person who just wanted to serve the people of Shelbyville, making be the new county sheriff because the present one was pathetic. Eden was on his radar. He fantasized over the woman and got caught up in her problems with break-ins. Through their mutual attraction and respect, love blossoms, but Texan style. Now the question is, would her past get in the way of his future?