Thunder Canyon Nugget

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Thunder Canyon's Most Upstanding Citizen Has Finally Found His Ms. Right…And She Isn't Letting Him Get Away!

The rumors have been confirmed: Abigail Cates is wildly in love with Hollis "Cade" Pritchett. But the honorable second Pritchett brother barely knows she exists. Until the youngest Cates daughter makes up her mind to get her man. Now the gossip mills are churning overtime as the town's tweeters try to out-scoop each other on this blossoming romance!

Maybe it's the wedding fever running through Thunder Canyon. Or maybe the town's most eligible bachelor is finally realizing that Ms. Right has been here all along. Could a marriage proposal be next? Stay tuned, dear readers, to find out if Cade will get up the courage to pop the question—just in time to throw the biggest Christmas wedding the Montana town has ever seen!

Review

For as long as Abigail Cates can remember she has secretly harbored a crush on Cade Prichett. The only problem with that is he used to date her older sister, Laila, and even proposed to her.  Cade has never looked at Abby as nothing but the adorable kid sister to the girl he use to date. Everyone in Thunder Canyon is struck with wedding fever and Abigail is feeling left out. She hatches a plan to get her man for the holidays.

I really wanted to enjoy this book more but I just couldn’t. The fact that Abby felt so depressed for not having a husband and family of her own is ridiculous. She is twenty two (and don’t get me wrong you can have a strong desire to want to marry at that age) and in school trying to figure out which direction she wants to go in life. How does she have the urge to want to settle down? She doesn’t even know if she wants to stay in town permanently.

The age difference between Abby and Cade is a sore point throughout the entire book. The author mentions that he is thirty and it is only a few years older than she but it became the premise of the whole storyline. Every time she did something he disliked he called her a little girl. When he wanted to hurt her he called her a little girl. It distracted from the story and made me question whether or not these two should be together.

Another focal point is the issue with Abby’s sister. Laila is marrying another man and both Cade and Laila claims to not have been in love so why did the author make this another issue to distract me from the true romance. Of course, I’m a true romantic and I was pleased to learn there is a HEA but I honestly didn’t care if it happened or not. There are too many issues in this story that should have been resolved or put to rest fairly early.

Reviewed by Samantha

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