Review: Sweet and charming
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2013
If I didn’t know better, I’d say Maggie McGinnis had infiltrated all my silly daydreams and wrote a novel about them. Handsome cowboys? Check. Horseback riding near the Rockies? Check. Falling in love with someone willing to crawl through fire for you? Double check. (Shhh, don’t tell my husband)Accidental Cowgirl is the story of Kyla and Decker. She’s a city-girl from Boston who has fond memories of shedding all that girly stuff and getting dirty on her grandparents’ farm. She’s broken, both physically and mentally, after her engagement goes from bad to fifth-level-of-hell. But she’s also strong. She’s pulled herself up, gotten help, refused to give up. She is a smart, independent woman with enough backbone and wit to fight through all the negative no matter how much life piles on. I liked her a lot, and her friends were the kind of people every woman needs standing in their corner.Decker’s next. That handsome cowboy and architect. He’s had one heck of a rough go of things – from a horrible father to the death of his little sister to living with the kind of guilt most people never recover from. But he’s back on the ranch to help his family, and he’s falling for the little lady from Boston. He’s totally swoony, with his charm and his smile and his cowboyishness. What…it’s a word in my world. Decker made me want to toss all my jeans in a bag and head west, away from the hustle and bustle and toward the mountains. But he is a man…so prepare yourself for those times when you just want to smack him upside the head as well.These two have such a roller coaster relationship. There’s this wonderful tension between them from the very start, and yet each of them just keeps throwing out reasons why they could never work. Toss in a jealous ex-girlfriend telling tales and one heck of a financial burden and you’ve got the recipe for a non-relationship built on missed opportunities. And yet Kyla and Decker keep ending up in the other’s path – which is exactly where they belong.I give Accidental Cowgirl four stars. Funny and charming with enough drama to keep you flipping those pages, Accidental Cowgirl is a stand-out romance debut from author Maggie McGinnis. If you love witty banter, charming, handsome men (and let’s be real – who doesn’t?) and stories of healing and hope, this is a must read for you.