Monday, December 8, 2014

"Texas Christmas Brides" by Cathy Marie Hake & Kathleen Y'Barbo



{Merry CHRISTmas everyone! Every Monday, Wednesday & Friday in honor of our Savior’s birth there’ll be a new Christmas book review! With a couple giveaways sprinkled in, it’s going to be so much fun! Let’s start!}

About this book:

  Can two brides be lassoed in time for Christmas?
  When four retired Texas Rangers try their hands at matchmaking, their efforts cause more fires than they can put out.
  Peony Potter, a pretty girl with a mysterious past, has swept into town with a heap of trouble following close on her heals. When she comes head-to-head with local sheriff and his suspicions, their relationship seems forever splintered before it’s even begun.
  Lacey Mather has come to Cut Corners to help out at Millie’s Diner until her great-aunt’s broken arm mends. While she’s in town, Lacey’s delicious cooking is warming many hearts and stomachs—especially those of a iron-willed blacksmith.
   As Christmas draws near, clandestine meetings are held and plans are afoot to foil plots to leave town. Will the town of Cut Corners learn that no matter what plans they hold, God is the grandest planner of them all?


Series: This book is made up of two novellas, “The Marrying Kind” and “Here Cooks the Bride”. “The Marrying Kind” is available is this collection, as an e-book by itself and a collection with three other novella. (“Here Cooks the Bride” is also in that novella; the title is “Lone Star Christmas”)

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“The Marrying Kind” by Kathleen Y’Barbo

About this book:

  Peony Potter, a pretty girl with a mysterious past, has swept into town with a heap of trouble following close on her heals. When she comes head-to-head with local sheriff and his suspicions, their relationship seems forever splintered before it’s even begun.


Spiritual Content- Luke 2:49 at the beginning; Church going; Celebrating the Savior’s birth; Prayers.


Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a ‘shut up’.


Sexual Content- a barely-above-not-detailed kiss & four not-detailed kisses; Wanting to & Almost kissing; Peony’s mother owns a brothel-type place, but Peony was never “worked” there (nothing really is said expect: “Someday soon, she’d be sleeping in a real bed in a room with a door she didn’t have to bar with a kitchen chair to keep Mama’s clientele from “accidentally” trying to climb beneath her covers.”);  Love, falling in love, and the emotions.

-Peony Potter
-Rafe Wilson
                                         P.O.V. switches between them & Eb
                                              Set in 1878 {But the Prologue is set in 1851}
                                                        123 pages with a recipe!

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Pre Teens-

New Teens- 
(and a half)

Early High School Teens- 

Older High School Teens- 

My personal Rating-


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“Here Cooks the Bride” by Cathy Marie Hake

About this book:

  Lacey Mather has come to Cut Corners to help out at Millie’s Diner until her great-aunt’s broken arm mends. While she’s in town, Lacey’s delicious cooking is warming many hearts and stomachs—especially those of a iron-willed blacksmith.


Spiritual Content- Two Scriptures are quoted; Church going & a sermon is written out; Prayers.


Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a ‘dumb’, a ‘hush’ and a ‘stupid’.


Sexual Content- Two not-detailed kisses; A barely-above-not-detailed touch; Love, falling in love, and the emotions.

-Lacey Mather
-Jeff Wilson
                                         P.O.V. switches between them & Eb
                                              Set in 1879
                                                        98 pages with a recipe!

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Pre Teens-

New Teens- 
(and a half)

Early High School Teens-

Older High School Teens- 

My personal Rating- 


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Overall Ratings:
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Pre Teens-

New Teens- 
(and a half)

Early High School Teens- 

Older High School Teens- 

My personal Rating- 

Let’s start with “The Marrying Kind”,
I giggled at many parts of this novella, but, I had to lower ratings because of Peony’s past.
And with “Here Cooks the Bride”:
Just like the first novella, I giggled & thought it should have been a bit longer with it not even being a hundred pages.


See y’all on Wednesday with a new CHRISTmas review!

 
 *BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.

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