Epic Fail

I often like to refer to myself as a "Michigan refugee." I'd still be happily living in Michigan, except for the fact that I like both me and My Man to be able to have gainful employment at the same time. I know, I'm wacky. Hence the move to southern California. We both could get jobs here.

So I find it kind of interesting that so far in my contest reading I've had one book set in Los Angeles, another set in San Deigo, and now The Cowboy And The Angel by Marin Thomas, which is set in good ol' Detroit. Coincidence?

I'm going to be honest. I can't really think of a good teaser for this book. Mostly because I had a lot of "personal" issues with the story. The heroine? Yeah, I just better not go there. The hero though? Quite yummy. I'm even a sucker for cowboys when they transplant themselves to the Motor City. Who knew?

Since I really won't can't go into why this story didn't work for me, I thought I'd mention a moment in the story that had me laughing out loud. The author does a good job with the Detroit setting. The hero even takes the heroine to a Red Wings game. Unfortunately the author did not do her homework when it came to the Detroit Lions.

Hero watches football game with heroine's brother. The Lions "score." Yeah, anyone who knows anything about football knows that would not happen. You know....the Lions actually putting points on the score board. Points that belong to them. Points the Lions help their opponents score do not count.

Although this is a fiction book. Certainly the author is allowed some creative license. I'm just not sure she should have taken that much.

Hardy har har.