A book review about The Cinderella and The Cowboy by Judy Christenberry

If you read some of the first part from the book,

you will actually know that it’s a love story type.
Ypu can know it too by the title and by just
glancing on the cover of the front page.
This book talks about the woman, who is a
struggling widow, struggles to fight back with her
true feelings because she doesn’t want to repeat
her past mistake. Judy Christenberry has been
writing romances for fifteen years, because she
loves happy endings as much as her readers do. A
former French teacher now she devotes herself to
writing full-time. She didn’t actually start writing
until she turned thirty-eight, the year after the
heartbreak of her father’s unexpected death. It
became apparent that there were two central
themes domination her writing: family and small-
town life. In addition, many of her books have
cowboy heroes because of the influence of her
parents, who both grew up on farms. She believes
that, ”laughter is good medicine.”
 To make the story short, Elizabeth Ransom is a
widow of Reggie Ransom and having two little
angles namely, Brady and Jenny. Reggie was not
a good husband to Elizabeth. When he died,
Elizabeth had a hard time looking for Reggie’s
home whose Reggie’s father is there. She was
hoping for at least reggie’s father would offer
hospitality for a few days because Elizabeth has
no where to go with her children. Finally she
found Tom Ransom’s house, Reggie’s father, at
first she thought that Tom would be mad at her
but she’s wrong. Tom is a very kind rich old man.
He is then happy when Elizabeth told him that
Elizabeth and Reggie have two angels and that
would mean he is a grandfather now. Tom has
his manager, employee and a friend for 10 years
and his name is Jack. Jack is in his thirty’s.
During her stay in Tom’s home she then little by
little getting to know the people inside the
house. Tom would provide them anything they
want. Jack always teases Elizabeth until he falls
in love with her. He’s a kind man and a father
like to Elizabeth’s children. He’s madly in love to
Elizabeth. He likes her personality, her being so
responsible, kind and humble. However,
Elizabeth is a type of person who is hard-
headed, stupid in love and worst, she denies for
her feelings. She’s afraid to responsibility and
she believes that she’s not the right person to
the most responsible man, Jack. To break the
good weather in the house, there is a woman
came who is claiming that she is reggie’s wife.
The only purpose why that woman, kim went at
Tom’s house is to get reggie’s bank because she
knew that Reggie’s bank had so much money in
there but she failed to do so for she’s found as a
thief and when she can’t runaway from that
awkward situation she break the commotion by
telling them that she is pregnant too with
Reggie. However, Elizabeth is so clever that she
suggested to have a home pregnancy test and
there, they found out she lied. Elizabeth is so
kind and she let her go away, Jack and Tom have
nothing to say since Elizabeth has the right to
make a decision. As time goes by, Tom and Carol
got married, Carol is a friend of Tom, a worker in
the house and a ‘secret love’ of Tom. After the
wedding, Tom suggested that why not Jack and
Elizabeth get married too so that Jack can’t
leave and Elizabeth has someone to take care of
her children. But then, at first Elizabeth don’t
like the idea but of course, she really love her
 son Brady, that Brady really wanted to have a
father. Elizabeth tried to speak to Jack and told
him this, “Marriage of convenience” Jack don’t
like the idea because in that “marriage of
convenience” says that Jack won’t be allowed to
touch Elizabeth that means it is a pretended
marriage but legally done. And lastly, Elizabeth
then realized her feelings when she saw Jack
how responsible he is when Jenny got sick and
Elizabeth won’t let go his man, his love and his
long time crush. They get married and live
happily ever after.
I really like the good sequence, order or the plot
of the story. I don’t give much attention about it
since it is really good. I really like the story. YES I
AM, sincerely.
Especially when the other woman came, because I
thought the story would be all about the ranch, the
babies, Jack and Elizabeth and Tom but when Kim
position herself as the antagonist of the story I get
interested because that’s the time that Elizabeth
should do something and make that claim untrue.
How much her patience would take after Kim has
been the headache of the Ransom’s house.
As a reader, when it comes to “love”. I often get
mad at Elizabeth, the focus of the story because she
is so annoying to the point that I got disappointed in
her. She only considers her feelings and can’t
considers other’s feelings. She doesn’t care for Jack.
However, yes I hated her but when it comes to
being a mother SHE’S A SUPER HERO for her
children I try to understand her since all she wanted
is for her children’s happiness and she doesn’t care
for her own happiness but at least, she would notice
Jack and give her other attention to him because
Jack wanted her to become happy and nothing else.
The most important learning, I have learned from
the book is that don’t be too negative on things that
haven’t yet happen because you won’t know that
there will be a good thing that might come or
waiting for you and you just don’t expect it. Just
how Tom and Jack accepted Elizabeth and her
children to them.