Review: Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Hero: Bobby Tom Denton
Heroine: Gracie Snow
Grade: 4.5 out of 5

This book was one of those books that was just a laugh a minute. It was also one of those books that has you embarrassed as all get out for the characters in the book and then rolling your eyes down the street at characters who use words like malarkey and balderdash…who the heck talks like that?

Gracie Snow does, that’s who.

Gracie Snow is hired to escort, retired NFL Football player Bobby Tom Denton to a movie shoot that he’s already hecka late for. She was hired because of her way with people and her ability to talk people into doing what she wanted and so when she turns up on Bobby Tom Denton’s front stoop, ready to take him to Telarosa, Texas so that the movie making can get under way, she doesn’t expect this job to be so hard. She knew that he would be difficult but she underestimated how difficult.

Bobby Tom, on the other hand was forced into retirement from the NFL with a bum knee and so now he’s making movies in his hometown to keep it on the map and bring money into the little town.

What I enjoyed about this book the most was the interaction between Bobby Tom and Gracie. I thought they were hilarious together, from the very beginning when Bobby Tom thinks that Gracie is a stripper. They bicker and they fight and they laugh together and it makes for one laugh after the other all throughout this book. It’s hilarious…and sexy. I loved how Bobby Tom tried to show Grace who was boss and how Gracie would throw all of it back in his face by pushing his buttons. It was too funny watching these fight their way to true love, it was funny and it was sweet and it was just what I needed this weekend.

As much as I enjoyed this book, there was a lot of stuff that bothered me about it. Bobby Tom’s mercy f*ck, as he called it when he lowered himself to teaching Gracie the art of love making, the way he did it made me roll my eyes down the street and pissed me off but then I’m easy when it comes to athletes so it wasn’t long before I was back to mooning over him. He really is a stud and I just love me some cowboy athletes and that stetson of Bobby Tom’s totally worked for me. LOOOOVVVVEEED IT!

Gracie was a great heroine too, she was one of those heroines that was a plain jane turned hottie mchotness and though I sometimes roll my eyes at these kinds of storylines, this one worked. Gracie pulled off her role in this book and I thought she was a perfect match for Bobby Tom, they just meshed well with each other and I loved how it wasn’t all roses with these two, there was a lot of fire and still a lot of fun and laughter between them, it made for a really fast paced, straight up contemporary novel between two humans and not werewolves and what not, it was great stuff, for real.

This is the second book in the Chicago Stars series by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, a long time ago I reviewed the first book, It Had To Be You on Sanctuary’s Finest, my old book blog…I really enjoyed that book, it was the book that started my love all things Susan Elizabeth Phillips, it introduced me the sporting world of romance novels and this book kept my love of SEP alive. Everyone should totally read The Chicago Stars series and they most definitely should read this book because Bobby Tom is a stud and Gracie is the bomb!

This book is available from Avon. You can buy it here.

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