June 28, 2019

The Cactus Creek Challenge

Author: Erica Vetsch
Genre: Christian Historical Fiction
Publisher: Barbour Publishing Incorporated, 2015
Pages: 320
Rating: Recommend

Synopsis: Anything he can do, I can do better. At least that was what Cassie Bucknell thought before she pinned on Ben Wilder's badge and took to patrolling the streets of Cactus Creek, Texas. Cassie has been in love with Ben since primer school, but Ben treats her like a little sister. When they are picked to swap jobs for a month as part of the annual Cactus Creek Challenge in their Texas hometown, the schoolhouse is thrown into an uproar, the jail becomes a temporary bank vault, and Cassie and Ben square off in a battle of wills that becomes a battle for their hearts. 

Review: I expected fluff, but this was a level of hokey I don't typically see in this genre. The concept of a teacher and a sheriff trading spaces for a month in a frontier town in the 1880s was entirely unrealistic. 

What I did expect was the predictability.

At some point I was hooked. Such a quicky, fun read.

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