Spurs and Lace: Lonely Lace Series, Book 1

The love story of Slate and Becky. Becky is a doctor with huge student loans. She has move to a small town in Montana. Slate is a rancher, who is about to lost his ranch. They meet when on a storm night he come to the clinic for help with his nephew Max. Her world get new look. Will she find happiness? Great story.

A story that is easy to read. The evil seems to be bullying. Dr Becky went through a lot and so did Slate. I liked the interesting stuff with Slate and his twin brother. It will be fun reading more about this family and their feud with the neighbors.

Spurs and LaceIt's painful giving this book 1 stars. The writing is deft. There are no glaring grammatical errors or formatting problems -- and for a freebie, that's saying something these days. Then there are the bad things. The terrible things. The things that make me want to just bang my head on the keyboard until it stops hurting.1) Only cowards, bullies, and insecure jackasses POSTURE with weapons. Ronan and Slate don't just wear them. They threaten each other with them in front of their adolescent nephew and others. Childish, irresponsible, and nothing a real man would do. Any cowboy in Montana would know this, no matter how provoked. That's how innocents are killed.2) Wolves do not come up to front porches, kill horses so no one in the house can hear it happening (because horses scream when they are terrified), eat their full... and then stick around to attack the people in the house. I mean, seriously. Wolves are wild animals. If they were that hungry to come close, they are full now. If they were not starving, they wouldn't have come that close.3) And then... to top if off, Slate is supposedly a veterinarian, and he declines the Rabies series after a terrible bite from these animals acting out of character. “No, they weren’t rabid. They smelled vulnerability and blood. Natural animal instinct.” WHAT? No professional veterinarian who lives long enough to retire takes chances with rabies. In the history of rabies in the US, it is 100% fatal in humans, 100%. You don't mess around with wild animals behaving out of character and then casually dismiss the threat.4) Dr. Becky performs dangerous surgery in a kitchen. A kitchen. OK, you may argue that she had no choice -- I think she had plenty of choices for AFTER CARE anyway, but OK. If you let that one go, when Mac, the child, falls down and his mother calls Becky 4 hours away, Becky says, hold on, I'll drive through the storm and be there... Doesn't Montana have medevac helicopters like the other 49 states? There were no doctors between the two of them? That's reckless grandstanding that would make her lose her credentials in any state of the union.While the writing is deft and technically correct. I find the characters unbelievable and casually reckless about things they should know better. The plot is disjointed too, I mean, why make a big deal about a horse farting? It serves no purpose. And if the loft she is staying in is so terrible, why doesn't she camp out in an exam room where there is at least heat and lights at the same time? Again, implausible plotting.I tried to like this book. I just wish the writer had consulted with someone who was a doctor, was a veterinarian, and maybe a wildlife expert. This would have been an entirely different story.

Spurs & Lace by Bonnie PaulsonReviewer – KrisRating - <3 <3 <3 <3 <3The premise of this book had me really intrigued. City doctor stuck in the rugged and snow-packed wilderness with a handsome cowboy. And I am growing very fond of cowboys (don’t tell my husband – who is from Wyoming, actually). It was that and more though.Slate looks like a man’s man, but actually held a wonderful gentleness to him. He’s a vet – yeah, he helps injured animals – SWOON! More than that he has stepped up where his twin brother has fumbled and is taking care of the ranch and everything/everyone on it.Becky, or she-doc, as Slate so lovingly calls her is a firecracker! Like Slate, I was bewildered by her at times. It was really hard to say she fit a certain heroine mold – and I LOVED that. She was a city girl but seemed at home in the country, too. She really didn’t let anything handicap her.These two together were a mix of hilarity, sex appeal and frustration! We know when two characters are destined to be together, and I just wanted to mash them together like we all used to do to Barbie and Ken. Obviously, that would have take away from a lot of the funny moments and made for a bland book. Though I was frustrated at Becky’s lack of decision at times, I was rooting for Slate all the way through!This book had all of the sex appeal without the actual sex, which is never a problem for me :D I think that this could be recommended to anyone. Maybe a bit too much heavy petting for the kiddos though ;)

This is the first book in a new series and I enjoyed it. I've not read anything by this author before, so I have nothing to compare it with as far as writing style of previous books, but except for a few small typo-type errors, the writing and editing were professional. I felt that the author used this book really to introduce the characters and their conflicts, rather than to have a complete story per book, because the main characters are just starting to have a relationship and do some character development when the book ends in an almost cliffhanger-type fashion.My biggest issue with the story was that very few issues raised have been resolved, all of the principle players are in a state of unrest and the author moves on to the next book (which is, coincidentally, not free). This is not to say that there isn't plenty of dramatic tension, action and adventure to be found in this volume; everything from blizzards to kitchen surgery to wolf attacks and death in the family. Fortunately, books 2 & 3 have been published and are available, so readers don't have to wait.There is violence, some mild profanity (along with some creative cursing- "son of a whorish turtle" was my favorite), and some kissing and discussion of sex, but no sexual scenes, so it's a pretty clean read. I liked some of the characters after getting to know them a bit (Dr. Becky and Dr. Slate), and was a bit baffled by the changing personalities of several others (feuding siblings Amelia and Ronan), but I'm not sure if I care enough to keep reading the series.Heat factor mild.

I liked the feisty protagonist Dr. O’Donald in Spurs and Lace. Becky is not one to let anyone tell her what to do. But when it comes to the man with the beautiful body, she can’t make up her mind.Slate MacCallister is very handsome and very troubled. Mac, the child he thinks the world of is deathly ill so he goes to town to get the doctor in the middle of one of the worst blizzards the town has had in a long time. He sees the doctor and it’s lust at first sight.A variety of things push them together and pull them apart so that they never actually do anything more than kiss occasionally, but that sexual tension is there under the surface. The attraction is based mainly on sexual tension though and not on personality characteristics and love. Whether a relationship of this type would succeed is unknown.One of the things that keeps coming up is Slate’s brother Robbie. He is supposed to be Amelia’s husband. We don’t see him all through the book. This book ends as a cliffhanger and is not resolved at the end. It does suggest that the reader will find out more about Robbie in the next book.I gave Spurs and Lace 3 stars out of 5.Thank you to the publishers for providing a copy of the book in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.This review was published on my blog Shelf Full of Books http://kathrynsshelffullofbooks.blogspot.com/2014/11/book-review-spurs-and-lace-with-bonnie.html

Loved the storyline, a lady doctor is working in a small town new to this town of course... When the weather is so bad she's thinking no on will come out in this storm, oh how wrong is she... Pig makes a pawing noise and she goes out side to see what the noise is she finds a man slumped over the saddle on a horse named (Pig) she gets the man inside to see what's wrong with him but can't leave pig outside, so she walks him into the office so he can stay warm because it's freezing out. Back to the man he is a hunk of cowboy and makes Becky all goo goo inside. She gets him thawed out some and he is on a mission! To save his nephew so off they go not on Pig, but in her big Rig! She saves the boy great read.... Not smutty. I recommend this book. I'm debating on the others because of the reviews given, I live in Australia and the cost is more for me to buy a book, keep this in mind when you write your reviews, give us a little more then good, great, or loved it... That's all I ask. Thanks.

I don't understand what other people are saying. I could not put this book down. The twists in the plot, the interactions between the characters I HAD to know what was going to happen next. I wish that the book had ended a bit cleaner but we can't have everything.

read in one day, enjoyed enough to want more, good work

This was such a great story. There was a lot of turmoil for our characters. This writer put everything together so that more books can be written from it