BOOK REVIEW- WORD GETS AROUND

BOOK REVIEW- WORD GETS AROUND-Lauren Eldridge had avoided returning home to Daily, Texas, until her father confesses to being in over his head. Paying back an old favor, he's invested in a horse that's supposed to be the star of a new Hollywood movie. Only the horse won't behave. And Lauren is the best trainer in the state. Convinced to return, she soon finds more than she bargained for when the movie's screenwriter turns out to be leading-man handsome. 
This movie may be Nate Heath's last shot at turning his career around. He didn't have high hopes at first, but the town of Daily may be just what everyone needs to find hope and healing. And maybe even a little romance.  AMAZON


This is a different kind of story, a different bits of flavors if you will.  Big Time Hollywood celebrities meets down home Daily, Texas.  Hollywood famous actor Justin comes to save the day  bringing his best friend/script writer Nate with him.   Justin is all excited but Nate as seen this before.  Justin on a high of a new project and then not delivering, running for the hills.  With Justin's past of substance abuse, Nate was worried about where this trip would lead.  Especially since the script he was supposed to rewrite was viewed as poison by others.  It had  been passed over time and again.  Justin has a big personality but he also encounters some other big over the top personalities in Daily.  Lauren's aunt is just one of them.  There were a few times where it felt like the story slowed down almost as slow as some of the Texans drawls but I did enjoy the book.  There was plenty of pain for so many people to overcome.  Both Justin and Nate carried baggage from being foster kids even though they did get lucky when they finally landed up with  Mama Louise.  But they both still had negative voices speaking in their heads from past hurts.  Lucky Strike carried a lot of his own fear and pain and his part in The Horseman movie can either make or break the promised movie.  There was a lot riding on him.  The emotions in this book were handled really well.  The romance between Nate and Lauren was slow, more a developing friendship first although the attraction was there. Really only a small amount of what you would think of as romantic settings.    I did like some of the phrases that the author used.  Let me think of an example that I can use.  "Aunt Donetta (Netta) stretched words out like taffy..."  There were plenty of those kind of goodies.    Of course there will also be some conversations that others might think were a little bit too corny but it all seemed to work.  There is also some references to God and a few Scriptures as well.  

Something that I really liked was the motto that Aunt Netta had painted over one of her mirrors ," God uses small things for great purposes." 

Later someone put a post it note and it changed it to say, "God uses all things for great purposes".