Snag Your Copy The Trouble With Lacy Brown (Mule Hollow, #1) By Debra Clopton Formatted As Paperback

Mule Hollow isnt big enough for Lacy, shell make it bigger!

Dream With Me Cowboy is a fabulous Christian comedy cowboy romance I should be shot for that alliteration!.
If you want to read a romance that is bigger than the characters it involves, this sweet comedy provides you with action, humor, and a HEA happily ever after ending.


The Opening

The prologue successfully introduces the main protagonist and her best friend, and the opening chapter contains an excellent cutemeet that brings the two main characters together in an interesting and dynamic way.


The Characters

Lacy is full of energy and spirit, Its wonderful to see her tearing through Mule Hollow and turning everyones life upside down in the best possible way, She is a strong female protagonist who isnt content to let the men take charge when she knows a woman does it best,

Her recent experience with her exfiance makes her a sympathetic character while her proactive spirit makes her extremely likable, She has lots of interests beyond the plot that make her threedimensional, such as her outoftune singing, her passion for gymnastics, and throwing the discus with a twist.


She flies through the BechdelWallace Test with her many conversations with other named female characters, Although she does believe that relationships between men and women are important, this is not all there is to her life, She wants to rescue a dying town, and she strongly believes that this is where God wants her to be and what he wants her to do.


Clint is a grumpy soul, but he has his reasons, His issues at the beginning of the story make him a sympathetic character, too, He is also a wellrounded character, with his carpentry skills and love for the land,

The Plot

The main action plot revolves around cattle rustling, but its not the only thing going on, There are a lot of interesting things happening in Mule Hollow,

Youve got the victim trope romance plot, a thriller crime action plot, and an intriguing savethetown plot, Thats not to mention all the nice hints spread through the novel about other brewing relationships and conflicts in the town,

The action plot comes to an exciting and adrenalinefueled climax and resolution near the end of the book, The relationship arcs also come to a very satisfying ending,

The Setting

The Texan setting is awesome, This town is really well introduced and described, As the story progresses, we get a real feel for the town, And the changes Lacy brings

about are trulycolorful!

The Prose

Debra Clopton is an excellent writer, The thirdperson narrative is told through two viewpoints that work well to show rather than tell Lacy and Clints story, I was rapidly immersed in their dynamic,

With such a wellwritten and welledited novel, I was surprised to find a few typos in the final chapters, On pageChapterwe find the sentence You might get a little carried away at times, times but Ive come to love observing and on pageEpilogue we find the sentence: Molly Popp, now a Mule Hollow resident for three weeks and seemed so happy.
These tiny errors didnt spoil the story at all, but I didnt expect to find them,

My Opinion

Dream With Me Cowboy is an actionpacked and entertaining Christian cowboy comedy romance, I certainly enjoyed reading it, and I believe other romance fans will enjoy Lacy and Clints story, too,

I rate this romance novel asout of, which will translate toout ofon Goodreads and Amazon, It is an engaging and satisfying story, Dream With Me, Cowboy Texas MatchmakersPG
Violence: armed assault
Language: nothing offensive
Sex: no sex, some kisses
Fast read, the characters are all very religious and kind Christians.
Our h, Lacy, is a sweet and unintentional hellraiser, This is a great beginning, but it kind of stalled for me, I'm not going to continue the series, my favorite book of all time I still laugh til I cry each time i read this I listened to the audio version of this book, previously published as The Trouble with Lacy Brown.

This was a cute, clean romance that had lots of humor thrown in, The story was so much fun!
What do you do when you've just arrived in your soon to be new home town and the first thing you do is back your mammoth car into that of a gorgeous man that you soon discover is your landlord You argue that it was his fault, of course! Want to bet on who's going to win the argument Lacy Brown is on a mission from God to save the town and nothing is going to stop her! Someone may need to save the town especially hunky landlord from Lacy.

The narration was wonderful and seemed to add a lot to the book, This is a sweet story of a Christian woman, Lacy Brown, who follows her faith in God and moved to a town in Texas Mule Hollow, The town has an abundance of men or cowboys and its sorely lacking in women, She makes it her mission to set up a beauty salon with her BFF Sheri, which she hopes will be thest of many businesses women can contribute to the small town.
She then starts on a mission to makeover the town,

Along the way she falls in love with one of the cowboys and trouble ensues their rocky romance along the way,

I thought this book was sweet with no sex or profanity at all, Just a good story that is enjoyable to read, I loved reading about how strong Lacys faith was, She was an inspiration not only to me but to everyone in the town of Mule Hollow as well, Got this one free on Amazon, Probably wouldn't have grabbed this one if I'd known It's book one of a Christian love story series, It wasn't bad if you just skim over the prayers they say to themselves which are scattered all over the book, Had a good story line, Sometimes a little over the top, Basic plot: girl moves to a hole in the wall town, schemes with the old ladies in town to get more women for the men in town.
She opens a hairsalon to preach to people while doing their do's and ends up falling in love herself, Not a bad romance book, Good vacation read because it's light and easy to read and not too long, No sex because its a Christian book, But, the plot makes up for it mostly, This story was fun and sweet, sassy and uplifting! I really liked the setting of Mule Hollow and the interaction between the various characters that were introduced.
The story had a great small town feel and the chemistry between the two main characters was zinging along the pages!

Lacy and Clint were fun to read about, yet they both had events in their pasts that helped to shape who they were, both good and bad.
This novel dove into that for both of them and looked at the heart of the issues they dealt with,

Dream With Me, Cowboy was charming and very enjoyable to read, I definitely recommend it to fans of contemporary romance,

I received a complimentary copy of this book, All opinions are my own,

You can read this review on my blog at:
sitelink wordpress. c In this fun and humorous novel, burnedout city gal Lacy Brown moves to Mule Hollow, Texas, on a mission for Godand discovers romantic and spiritual fireworks! About the author: This title marks Debra Clopton's debut for the Love Inspired line.
The Trouble With Lacy Brown was aGolden Heart finalist for Best Inspirational Romance, an honor awarded to manuscripts written by unpublished novelists, I have so many books by Debra Clopton I felt like I needed to knock them off one at a time,

This is the first of the Texas Matchmakers series, It was the typical story where the hero and heroine have an uncomfortable first meeting, dont like each other, begin an attraction as they are thrown together, and, predictably end up in love with some conflict thrown in.


These seem to be fast books so Ill continue reading the rest, Lacy Brown and her friend Sheri move from Dallas to Mule Hollow, Texas, to open a beauty salon, This little town isn't a random choice, The older ladies of Mule Hollow placed advertisements looking for women to move there and help revive their dying town by becoming potential brides for the men.
The town is sadly reduced after the collapse of the oil industry locally cost them a large part of their former population, and nearly all the young families and unattached young women.


Lacy doesn't plan to be one of the brides, She's on a missiona mission from Godto help the women who will come to find the right matches among the cowboys who currently have no one to marry.


This is a Christian romance, That can mean a lot of things, In this case, Lacy is, on the one hand, the kind of southern, Evangelist, talking openly about it, Christian that is very distant from my own New England, Catholic and Episcopalian, reserved sort of Christian.
In my culture, you don't talk that openly about sincere religious belief, not because it's not important, but precisely because it is, It's for guiding your moral choices and judgments, and your relationship with God is a private matter, not for putting in the shop window, on public display.
Lacy Brown is from a really different culture, where people who don't talk often and enthusiastically about their faithabout something that in my culture is deeply privateyou are presumed not to have it.


With all that said, Clopton convincingly portrays Lacy as a woman whose faith differs from mine mainly in these cultural aspects, not in its essential substance or sincerity.
And that's even as a good bit of her outward behavior is, in my culture, a marker of shallow and insincere claims of faith, I feel a connection to Lacy in the matter where her outward behavior is most alien to me,

That's good writing,

Lacy is smart, capable, tough, She genuinely likes other people, and is not judgmental about people whose view of life is different from her own, She's clearheaded about knowing what values she does need a potential spouse to share with her, She has an enthusiasm for life that's captivating, and a commitment to keep trying to be a better person, and a natural and genuine impulse to help others in ways that will really make them better off.


Her plan to help Mule Hollow seems outwardly a bit nutty and impulsive, and she in fact goes about it in a thoughtful and intelligent way.


And of course, she's barely reached the town when she meets Clint Matlock, and clashes spectacularly with him on the main street in town, in front of everyone.


They're in some ways very different people, and in other ways have important things in common, They're both a bit damaged by abandonment by a parentClint by his mother, Lacy by her father, Each has something to learn from the other,

I really like both of them, and it's fun seeing their relationship develop, Overall, this book is a lot of fun, and satisfying,

Recommended.

I bought this audiobook, Dream with Me, Cowboy by Debra Clopton
Texas matchmakers Series Book One
Lacy Brown feels the answer to her prayers when she reads an advertisement.
The small town of Mule Hollow is looking for women, They have a lot of lonely cowboys who don't have the time to head to the larger towns to look for dates, Lacy doesn't want a cowboy, . . she wants to help the town and share her faith, . . and fix hair.

Clint Matlock didn't trust women and didn't want one, Especially not the new woman in town, If the matchmakers were bringing more woman like this one, . . Mule Hollow was in more trouble than ever!

Previously published as The Trouble with Lacy Brown, this story never gets old, Poor Lacy just has trouble following her around, And laughter. Great humor, characters, and writing, I love this series.
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