Love Drunk Cowboy (Spikes & Spurs Book 1)

Austin inherited her grandmother’s watermelon farm and wine business. Although Austin was raised in the city, she got to visit her grandmother every summer. As Austin is trying to sort her grandmother’s house, she begins to learn the watermelon and wine business. And, she gets better acquainted with her neighbor, Rye. Sparks defiantly fly when the two are together. Will Austin leave her big city, rich life and job to work a huge watermelon farm and make wine? Major life decisions await Austin and Rye. Really fun, entertaining story that will have you laughing out loud and laughing until tears run. Love Carolyn Brown books and characters.

Liked the storyEnjoyed the characters and how they changed.Decent plot. Glad the characters continued to grow and be interesting.

Good read. A lot of humor. I really liked these characters and the plot of this book. Looking forward to reading the next installment of this series.

I always watch for a Carolyn Brown and I've never been disappointed . can hardly wait until I have time to read more . with one of her books I Will often take time even when I shouldn't. Looking forward to her next book.

Love Drunk CowboyBy Carolyn BrownBlurb:All Austin Lanier wants is to sell her inherited watermelon farm, slip on her stilettos and run back to corporate America. Until the drop dead sexy cowboy next door, Rye O'Donnell, decides he'll only take the farm if he can get the fiery woman who owns it as part of the deal...Review:Austin Lanier has only come looking to say goodbye to her grandmother but found out that the soil and water seeped into her heart. She’s a silk suit and stiletto girl who’s never had a beer. She begins to learn more about herself and her family as she learns how to run her grandmother’s farm. The first thing she learns is not to judge someone without meeting them. Rye isn’t the old man she thought he was. And he’s determined to worm his way into her heart.I loved that Austin enjoyed shocking her mom. Every phone call ended with my own laughter. I could see Austin’s mom getting more and more worried that she was losing her daughter. Add a dash of Grandma’s meddling from beyond the grave and you have a delightful read. The sex is sizzling when it finally comes about but the focus is on Austin’s transformation and the relationship she builds with Rye.The secondary characters will thrill you, from Molly and Greta to the O’Donnell siblings. My favorites were Austin’s mom and aunts. They sounded like high-powered women who all needed a cowboy to ride!

I liked the story but,,,, I really got into Carolyn's books because I knew it would be a great story with interesting quirky characters and a lot of humor and I wasn't disappointed in any of them until I started reading the cowboy stories. Burnt Boot series was great, but started leaning to too much sex. This series,,,, if it wasn't for the references to underpants instead of panties, I would have thought it was some of the authors I've gotten away from because the characters were jumping into bed every 6 or 7 pages. This is the first book in the Spikes and Spurs set and I'm already contemplating not reading the rest.The story was Great!!!! I loved how Rye and Austin developed their relationship even though Rye aggravated me a few times with his quick wrong assumptions and got snarky on her. But I really hated that every few pages they were jumping into bed, or a tub/shower, or in the truck, yadayadayada.I got into Carolyn's books to get away from that, so its a disappointment. It takes away from a really good story.

I have never written a review before but this book was so dang cute I just couldnt help myself! Rye O'Donnel can be my cowboy any day of the week he's sweet, schmexy, and cooks breakfast what more can a girl ask for?! And as far as heroines go Austin is right up there with my favorites shes sassy, strong, and hilarious. Even the side characters of this book were lovable I laughed so hard at Molly and Greta that my husband thought I had lost my mind...This book was absolutly charming and the only dissapointment I suffered was finding out the sequel wont be released until September. If you are looking for a book that will make you laugh one minute and sigh the next this is definately a story for u!

Being from OK, originally, i loved seeing names & places I was familiar with. Laughed at the funny things the Texas little old ladies said. The hero, rodeo rancher was a fun, dreamy and believable character & Austin was a well thought out female sweetheart. Story was romantic and not cheesy. Enjoyed family relationships & vision more stories involving Ryes siblings. Was not really familiar with the rodeo scene, so learned something too. Did know Risistol (sp?) is a maker if cowboy hats & that was about it for Southwest lingo. I'm from north eastern Oklahoma, so had a little trouble, at first, figuring out if the setting was OK or TX. Some of the town names were recognizable, Duncan & where the famous snake festival is held. There's a Ringling, OK & a Henryetta, but knew when I saw spelling of Henrietta that that town is in Texas. So- once I finally figured that out, reading went more smoothly. Not sure if other town names are real, in Texas or Oklahoma, but guess it doesn't matter. Fun reading.

Romance, Humor and sex in cowboy boots!

Austin Lanier ist eine taffe Geschäftsfrau, die mit gerade 30 Jahren vor einer Beförderung steht auf die sie Jahre lang hart hingearbeitet hat. Doch dann stirbt ihre Großmutter und hinterlässt ihr ihre Farm und ihr lukratives Wassermelonen Wein Geschäft und sie ist gezwungen nach Terral, einem kleinen Ort in Oklahoma zu fahren um sich dort um die Hinterlassenschaft ihrer geliebten Granny zu kümmern. Seit Monaten telefoniert sie mit Rye O'Donnell, dem Nachbarn ihrer Großmutter, der in ihren Gedanken ein 80jähriger alter Mann mit O-Beinen ist. Umso überraschter ist sie, als sie Rye gegenüber steht, denn er entpuppt sich als sexy Cowboy und ist gerade mal 2 Jahre älter als sie selbst.Rye O'Donnell hat durch Granny Laniers Erzählungen und Bilder bereits aus der Ferne ein Auge auf die hübsche Austin geworfen. Doch als sie ihm in Fleisch und Blut gegenüber steht, haut es ihn aus seinen Cowboy Boots. Er ist vom ersten Moment an verliebt in die junge Frau. Doch sie ist ein City Girl - und er ein Cowboy der das Landleben liebt. Kann er Austin davon überzeugen Tulsa den Rücken zu kehren? Wird Granny Laniers Hinterlassenschaft Austin zum Cowgirl machen? Oder wird sie Ryes Herz brechen?-------------------------------------------------------Zum Dahinschmelzen!! Man möchte ins nächste Flugzeug steigen, nach Oklahoma fliegen und sich selbst einen Cowboy angeln. Ich mochte Rye vom ersten Augenblick an, bei Austin hat es etwas länger gedauert, da sie anfangs noch das etwas hochnäsige Stadtkind raushängen ließ. Und Gott bewahre jeden vor der Eisgöttin, die Austins Mutter Barbara ist. Überhaupt hatte ich mit Austins Familie so meine Probleme. Ihr Vater hat seiner Mutter und dem Landleben den Rücken gekehrt und ist mit Barbara nach Tulsa. Was man so durch Austin erfährt, hat er sie zwar sehr geliebt aber die Frau hat wirklich Eiswasser in den Adern. Ihre herablassende Art fand ich ziemlich nervig. Ihre Schwestern waren nicht besser aber wenigstens fand ich die noch amüsant.Dagegen war Ryes Familie zum verlieben. Überhaupt mochte ich Rye vom ersten Augenblick an und ich habe mehr mit ihm gezittert, dass Austin ihn nicht wirklich das Herz bricht. Aber sie hat sich von Kapitel zu Kapitel gewandelt und am Ende hab ich ihr heimlich applaudiert, als sie endlich den Mumm hatte, ihrer Mutter die Stirn zu bieten und eigene Entscheidungen zu treffen.Da es das erste Buch einer Serie ist, habe ich die Hoffnung, dass die vier Geschwister von Rye noch eine eigene Geschichte bekommen und man vielleicht dadurch erfährt, wie es mit Rye und Austin weitergeht. Bisher sind sechs Bände erschienen und in zwei weiteren geht es um die O'Donnell Kinder.Es war mein erstes Buch von Carolyn Brown aber sicherlich nicht mein letztes. Ich mochte ihren Schreibstil und die fröhlichen Dialoge. Die Handlung ging nicht in Sexszenen unter auch wenn es davon ein paar gab, die aber nicht allzu graphisch beschrieben waren, was gut zum Gesamtbild passt. Carolyn hat noch andere Cowboy-Bücher geschrieben und ich bin sicher, dass ich die Spikes & Spurs Serie definitiv weiterverfolgen werde. Das hat Spaß gemacht!

First class read. You've got city slicker Austin Lanier who heads to the backwaters to fulfil her Aunts wishes for spreading her ashes and sorting out want she intends to do with a watermelon farm she's inherited. She intends to meet the old guy who lives next door that she's spoken to on the phone most Thursday nights over the last 6 months only to find that Rye O'Donnell is in fact drop dead gorgeous and only in his early thirties. He wants to buy the farm until he sees Austin then he's busy plotting how he can get both Austin and the farm. Loved the book, just couldn't put it down until I'd finished it.

I'm in love with the Spikes & Spurs series. The women are all feisty and the men are sometimes stubborn but always sexy. Carolyn Brown will have you giggling in places, ready to cry or want to reach in and shake someone and say "what are you doing". Her writing style just put you right in the middle of the story from the frist page.

exciting read, great characters and a good laugh in places.Could really get into the story and really wanted to get to the end to start book 2 in the series