A Little Bit Country
Debbie Macomber and Raeanne Thayne
Mira, Aug 25 2015, $7.99
ISBN
“A Little Bit Country”
by Debbie Macomber. Librarian and published author Rorie Campbell drives from San
Francisco to Seattle to attend a writer's conference. On a remote county road in Oregon, her car
breaks down. Stranded with no nearby
motel vacancy, Clay Franklin invites Rorie to stay at his ranch while her
vehicle is repaired. Several days
together leads to an attraction that shakes both of them up as he has a nice
fiancée and she has a boyfriend back home.
“Blackberry Summer” by RaeAnne Thayne. In Hope's Crossing,
Colorado, single mom of two kids (Macy and Owen), a dog (Chester) and a pain in
the butt mom (Ruth), Claire Bradford owns struggling String Fever beads
shop. She loves her town with the only
blight being her ex Jeff with his new wife Holly. Someone broke in to her shop in a robbery and
also vandalized it by knocking the beads all over the floor and destroying the
customized wedding dress of the mayor’s daughter. New Police Chief Riley McKnight arrives at
Claire's shop to investigate the fourth store robbery. When he was in high school he had a crush on
her that has continued secretly over the years even today.
The 1990 reprint of A Little Bit Country is an
appealing country bumpkin-sophisticated urban romance that relies too much on
happenchance. The 2011 reprint of Blackberry Summer is an engaging police procedural romance
due to the super supporting townsfolk.
Though I have doubts these novels belong together, these are two fine
tales.
Harriet Klausner
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