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The Cowboy's Lady (2011)

by Carolyne Aarsen(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

037387698X (ISBN13: 9780373876983)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Love Inspired

series

Rocky Mountain Heirs

review 1: “The Cowboy’s Lady” is book 4 in the Rocky Mountain Heirs miniseries. It focuses on the return of the prodigal, Vivienne Clayton, a Cordon Bleu-trained chef, to the small town of Clayton, Colorado, which was built by her ancestors. She’s retreated from city life due to being fired from her job, and is hired to cook for a local ranch. However, the ranch is run by Cody Jameson, who harbored a crush on her back in high school but she rejected him as being “too country” for her; the reader can empathize with the peer pressure that was on her. Vivienne is back, ostensibly to get her inheritance which stipulates that she (and five of her cousins) must live in Clayton for at least one year. Then she will receive 500 acres of land (for ranching or farming) and $250... more,000. Vivienne plans to get the money and run back to New York, but her growing attraction to Cody may alter her plans.Vivienne is an amusing heroine; she cooks fancy city food for the ranch hands, not realizing that 500 calorie plates don’t’ do justice for a man working outside all day long. She walks around the ranch in Christian Louboutin heels and gives makeup advice to surly teenager Bonnie Jameson. Bonnie is Cody’s younger sister and there are moments in the story where you wish someone would slap some sense into her. Cody is pure country boy, and he tells Vivienne “what you see is what you get”. He thinks Vivienne is a snob, but to her credit, she doesn’t really behave this way. She’s welcomed back into town by her relatives and she begins to see how much Cody loves the country. Cody’s disdain for this “city girl” is annoying at times, but eventually they see how they can merge their two lifestyles together (it’s suggested that they open a dude ranch for visitors). The reader is also aware of Cody’s distrust of city people which came about after his wife, Tabitha, left him to live in Denver and died in an auto accident which also killed her unborn baby. There’s some conflict in the story as well, and not just between Cody and Vivienne. Mysterious things have been happening around the ranch, including cows getting loose and cowboys complaining about the work. The book will make you want to visit Colorado, and it’s an easy , highly recommended read.
review 2: I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway.This is the first “Love Inspired” book I have read and I was pleasantly surprised. I expected an easy read and that is what this book delivered. I did not expect a very complicated story and this one was not. I expected there to be some conflict (where is the story if there is no conflict?) but it was not as silly as some I have read. The romance was gentle and so was the theology.I found the ending a bit quick. One day driving cattle as a date seems a bit slim in the courtship department. The water fall walk might have had its’ moments of closeness but it only started as an unplanned walk. I think the hero asking for a serious relationship and courtship would have been just as satisfying as “will you marry me?”I think the book delivered what it was suppose to. So I give this book a 3.5 but it gets 4 stars cuz I round up. less

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