Cowboy Charm School Book Blog Tour, Review, and #Giveaway #LoneStarLit

Posted September 25, 2018 by Lynn in Blog Tours, Giveaways, Reviews / 3 Comments


COWBOY CHARM SCHOOL 
HAYWIRE BRIDES, #1

by
MARGARET BROWNLEY
Sub-genre: Western / Clean Romance
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Date of Publication: September 4, 2018
Number of Pages: 384
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When Texas Ranger Brett Tucker accidentally derails a wedding, he’s determined to bring the estranged couple back together…but he never dreamed he’d start falling for the bride!
Texas Ranger Brett Tucker hates to break up a wedding, but the groom—notorious criminal Frank Foster—is a danger to any woman. So he busts into the church, guns blazing…only to find he has the wrong man.
STOP THAT WEDDING!
Bride-to-be Kate Denver is appalled by her fiancé’s over-the-top reaction to the innocent mistake and calls off the wedding—for good. Guilt-ridden, Brett’s desperate to get them back on track. But the more time he spends with Kate, the harder he falls…and the more he yearns to prove that he’s her true match in every way.
“Light and airy as cotton candy, this tale charms.” 
— Publishers Weekly
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Cowboy Charm School is a delightful read from start to finish.
Ms. Brownley does an incredible job describing the action taking place throughout the novel. The opening scene grabbed my attention right away and set the tone for the entire book. I don’t want to ruin the scene for you, dear reader, but there is an interrupted wedding, a case of mistaken identity, a jealous groom, a fire, and a fist fight, all within the first 4 pages! Other great scenes include taffy pulling between the two main characters, Brett and Kate, and a scene where a calf is rescued from a precarious position. The taffy pulling scene reminded me of my childhood, making taffy with my family at Christmas every year (with a lot less flirty banter!); while the scene with the calf was just hilarious, physical comedy.
In addition to some great scenes, I am smitten with the language in Cowboy Charm School. Kate uses “fudge” like a curse word. Brett explains how romancing a woman is similar to fishing. One passage I really love is Kate’s description of her courage as a child:
her rough-and-tumble ways had been little more than bravado. She was like the sweet nougats her aunt made, with the hard crusts and soft centers.
I seriously identify with that description of soft and sweet underneath the hard crust! I found myself chuckling on more than one occasion throughout the book due to the great word selection.
The characters in Cowboy Charm School are well-developed and amusing. Kate attempts to re-create her uncle’s most challenging candy recipe result in more failures than successes. She also rescues animals and people in danger on a regular basis. The fortunes Kate writes for her customers at the candy shop are always spot on. Brett is the fearless Texas Ranger in Haywire to find the criminals. Brett is very clever, following the clues to the bad guys. He’s also a great foil to Kate, bantering back and forth, discussing multiple topics. The secondary characters round out the town. From Kate’s Aunt Letty, a force to be reckoned with, to the little kids who frequent her candy shop, Ms. Brownley does a fascinating job layering the different characters into the town of Haywire.
If you are one of those readers always looking for the title drop, Cowboy Charm School does not disappoint. The title is a lot more obvious by the end of the novel. And I feel like I should have figured that clue out a lot sooner!
If you like historical romance with some witty banter, a side of mystery, and great writing, I highly recommend Cowboy Charm School. I’m looking forward to reading more books set in the town of Haywire.
Check it out when you get a chance. Enter the giveaway below!
Thanks to author Margaret Brownley and Lone Star Book Blog Tours for providing this opportunity to review Cowboy Charm School. I received the novel free in exchange for my honest review.
New York Times bestselling author MARGARET BROWNLEY has penned more than forty-five novels and novellas. She’s a two-time Romance Writers of American RITA® finalist and has written for a TV soap. She is also a recipient of the Romantic Times Pioneer Award.  
Her story, A Pony Express Christmas, will appear this fall in the Old West Christmas Brides collection, and book two of her Haywire Brides series will be published May 2019.  Not bad for someone who flunked eighth-grade English.  Just don’t ask her to diagram a sentence.
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Posted September 25, 2018 by Lynn in Blog Tours, Giveaways, Reviews / 3 Comments

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