REVIEW: The Bluebonnet Battle by Carolyn Brown

The Bluebonnet Battle by Carolyn Brown: There’s lovin’ and fightin’ in this heartwarming story of a family feud and a couple caught in the middle of it!

It’s a fight for the heart and soul and also the funeral dinner rights of the small Texas town, Bonnet. In this corner is Liddy Latham who has lived in Bonnet all her life, has carried on the funeral dinner tradition of her mother and grandmother and wants the small town to stay just as it is, friendly and welcoming.

In the opposite corner is Liddy’s bitter rival, Matilda Monroe, who is mean and nasty and who moved away from Bonnet a number of years ago to marry a man for money and a more urbane and sophisticated life. She is back in Bonnet after her divorce and wants to change the friendly town into her fiefdom with sophisticated progress and snobby ways. Also she wants to ruin Liddy financially and queen it over Liddy and the whole town.

During the course of this story there are a number of rounds fought. But in the end… she’s down for the count. But who wins, you ask. That’s for the author to tell.

So the family feud between the Taylors, Liddy’s family and the Monroes spills over to affect Liddy’s niece Amelia and Matilda’s son Nick. Matilda’s return to Bonnet means the two young people are placed right in the middle. Matilda is spitting mad and letting her nastiness explode where the couple is concerned. Liddy’s family isn’t real happy about the couple getting together either. You’ll have to read the book to get the lowdown on the couple and the family feud.

It’s a knockdown, drag-out battle but the reader is rewarded with a charming story in author Carolyn Brown’s The Bluebonnet Battle. Ms. Brown has woven a tale full of likable characters, well most of them, and threads of family love and a HEA for Amelia and Nick. I love Carolyn Brown’s writing style and this latest story has fulfilled my love of a tale well told.
 

Book Info:

Publication: March 8th 2022 | Montlake |

In Bonnet, Texas, Liddy Latham, the queen of funeral dinners, keeps a southern comfort-food tradition alive—until fancy-schmancy Matilda Monroe moves back to town. She wants room at the table for her own style of consolation and closure: healthy, modern, and vegan. But this is about more than fried chicken versus tofu turkey. Matilda’s return is also stirring up their volatile, unresolved history. And just when they thought it couldn’t get more personal…

Matilda’s son, Nick, and Liddy’s niece, Amelia, have met and the sparks are flying. For Matilda and Liddy, their precious kin’s romance is their worst nightmare. Now, it’s all Nick and Amelia can do to survive a family feud that has the whole town talking.

The battle for the funeral dinner crown is on. As two strong-willed women wrestle for control, making peace with the past may be the only way to serve the star-crossed lovers a happy ending.