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The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels: A Love Story
by Ree Drummond
Romance novels aren't really my thing...at all. I was under the impression this book was going to be about a city girl becoming a country girl - a not so secret, secret wish I'd love to see come to fruition in my own life. However, this book was over the top, gushing love a la harlequin romance complete with weak, spaghetti knees (really, how many times can you say your knees go weak at the site of your boyfriend, fiancee, husband) but with a definite PG twist.
It seemed to me fairly obvious that the author wrote this book knowing full well one day her kids would read the love story between their parents. And yes, it is a nice love story and I do love happy endings. But she may as well have put a huge disclaimer at the beginning of the book to her children saying, "Your father and I did not in any way, shape or form have pre-marital sex! Don't even think about doing it in your own lives." After about the third time that she mentions they didn't have any 'sleepovers' because there would be 'plenty of time for that in the future,' I was like, OK, I GET IT!!!
There were definitely some funny moments that happened to the author that weren't the result of her making bad decisions. The rest of her 'bad luck' that she proclaims to have is self-induced. Like when her future mother-in-law, who has lived in the country and on that land her whole life, tells her to slow down on an upcoming turn on a dirt road and of course Ree doesn't do it, goes off the road and ends up in a ditch. Well that isn't bad luck, that's being arrogant.
Had Ree taken out, oh, I don't know, about 100 pages of passionate kisses, weak knees, I'm not sleeping with my husband before he's my husband but he has these amazing arms and just focused on certainly some of the passion, but more on her transition from city to country girl, this book would have been much more interesting.
It seemed to me fairly obvious that the author wrote this book knowing full well one day her kids would read the love story between their parents. And yes, it is a nice love story and I do love happy endings. But she may as well have put a huge disclaimer at the beginning of the book to her children saying, "Your father and I did not in any way, shape or form have pre-marital sex! Don't even think about doing it in your own lives." After about the third time that she mentions they didn't have any 'sleepovers' because there would be 'plenty of time for that in the future,' I was like, OK, I GET IT!!!
There were definitely some funny moments that happened to the author that weren't the result of her making bad decisions. The rest of her 'bad luck' that she proclaims to have is self-induced. Like when her future mother-in-law, who has lived in the country and on that land her whole life, tells her to slow down on an upcoming turn on a dirt road and of course Ree doesn't do it, goes off the road and ends up in a ditch. Well that isn't bad luck, that's being arrogant.
Had Ree taken out, oh, I don't know, about 100 pages of passionate kisses, weak knees, I'm not sleeping with my husband before he's my husband but he has these amazing arms and just focused on certainly some of the passion, but more on her transition from city to country girl, this book would have been much more interesting.