Review: Country Hearts

Country Hearts by Cindi Madsen
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

After being laid off city teacher Jemma Monroe takes the first available teaching job, in a small town town. Her first days are filled with inclement weather, strange livestock and grumpy cowboys.

Wyatt Langford is bringing up his daughter Bailey Rae alone after his wife left them for the big city lights. Since the divorce he's retreated into his shell, concerned only with caring for his daughter and bringing a smile back to her face. The last thing he needs is a city girl neighbour worming her way into his heart only to let him down again.

Jemma is a veritable child-whisperer, able to charm the naughtiest child in her class. The small town is charmingly cosmopolitan with country yoga classes and a cafe which creates weekly whimsical coffee concoctions. Bailey Rae is charmingly precocious and Wyatt is touching as the gruff cowboy who nevertheless braids his daughter's hair, buys her unicorn themed bric-a-brac and submits himself to tweenager films on Friday nights. But overall, it was too sweet, too predictable and didn't have enough tension to leaven the sugar. Even the school play Jemma directs is a Valentine special.

If you love a sweet small town romance, cute moppets, gruff cowboys and dedicated teachers this is the book for you.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

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