"it's raining dogs, cats and parrots in Burnt Boot Texas"
Reviewed by Sandra Wurman
Posted September 25, 2014
Holiday | Romance Contemporary
Welcome to the holiday season with a true gift by Carolyn
Brown. COWBOY BOOTS FOR CHRISTMAS is a holiday story that
keeps on giving page after wonderful page. Believe when I
tell you some of the characters in this book are quite
difficult to love but Brown's sense of humor rings true.
In COWBOY BOOTS FOR CHRISTMAS Brown has given her slant
on family feuds which needless to say goes from sublime
to ridiculous. But entertaining as can be.
What begins as a search for a temporary safe house
becomes so much more. Callie and her nephew Martin
desperately need a secure place to stay but even more
they need a real home. Finn has an affinity for taking
care of people and animals. He comes from a huge family
and truly understands the meaning of being part of a
something so wonderful. Finn was clearly unlucky in a
failed attempt at finding that love for himself -- the
everlasting kind with a good secure future. Finn needs
Callie and Martin as much as they need him and this time
Finn knows letting go would be nearly impossible.
Martin and Callie's needs are pretty basic. Callie
realizes she can at best do temporary -- it's not in her
DNA to do permanent and yet Finn no longer believes
that's true. Callie is skilled at taking care of herself.
It's her ability to overcome what she feels are unhealthy
traits for a real relationship that has her selling
herself short. Callie and Finn had been a team in the military. Both had
felt the attraction and hid it very well. The combat
field was no place for any affairs of the heart -- that
distraction would get both you and your partner killed.
But now things and circumstances have changed. The two of
them had a remarkable friendship. Opening his house to
Callie was easy. Keeping an eye on her and Martin also
well within Finn's wheelhouse. Keeping her at arm's
length -- that was going to be the challenge. And Finn
wasn't entirely convinced he really wanted to do that.
The more time with Callie and watching this wonderful
woman open her arms and heart to anyone who needed her
has Finn beginning to hope for more. True to Carolyn Brown the story in COWBOY BOOTS FOR
CHRISTMAS is deceptively simple after all it is a
Christmas story and of course has to have some very basic
holiday elements. But COWBOY BOOTS FOR CHRISTMAS is
filled with allegories. The boots represent something
very basic, necessary and desperately coveted. Each
character in this amazing story is looking for their own.
But what is so very lovely is that although the boots
would make a least one of their dreams come true they
would be passed over for what is really important. In the
spirit of the season -- giving is truly more important
than receiving -- and that message is loud and clear in
Carolyn Brown's contribution to this year's Christmas
stories.
SUMMARY
'Tis the season for...
Feasting
Frolicking
And...Feuding? All he wants for Christmas is peace and quiet... After two tours in Afghanistan, retired Army sniper Finn
O'Donnell believes his new ranch outside the sleepy little
town of Burnt Boot, Texas, is the perfect place for an
undisturbed holiday season. But before he can settle in,
an old friend shows up looking for protection and a place
where nobody knows her name. But that's going to take a miracle... Callie Brewster must relocate to protect her young nephew,
Martin, and the only person she trusts is her old Army
friend, Finn. Burnt Boot seems like the perfect place to
be anonymous, but it turns out a small town with big drama
is no place to hide...
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