Thanks to NetGalley and Dafina for providing an eARC of this book!

This had a cute premise - Evie, a TV chef, is pushed down the stairs by a reality show rival and loses her memory. She then goes to her childhood home - now a Dude Ranch run by hot cowboy and childhood crush Zach Pleasant - to recover hear health and (hopefully) her memory.

If this premise sounds compelling, I think you'll like this one! All of the characters were sweet and the family and found family dynamics were lovely. I always love a <i>Persuasion</i> feel in a romance. Here's hoping Jesse is the next cowboy!

With a headline spot on a hit morning show and truly mouth-watering culinary skills, chef Evie Buchanan is perched on the edge of stardom. But at an industry party, a fall lands Evie in the hospital—with no memory of who she is. Scrambling to help, Evie’s assistant contacts the only “family” Evie has left, close friends who run the luxury dude ranch in California where Evie grew up. Evie has no recollection of them—until former rodeo champion Zach Pleasant walks into her hospital room, and she realizes his handsome face has been haunting her dreams . . .

Zach hasn’t seen Evie in years—not since their families conducted a campaign to make sure their childhood friendship never turned into anything more. When the young cowboy refused to admit the feelings between them were real, Evie left California, making it clear she never wanted to see Zach again. Now he refuses to make the same mistake twice. Starting fresh is a risk when they have a history she can’t recall, but Zach can’t bear to let go of her now. Can he awaken the sleeping beauty inside her who might still love him?- Goodreads

I had read the excerpt for this book through Netgalley some months ago and was pissed because I got sucked into the book and didn't realize that it was a excerpt. This book takes your attention instantly and you just want more. 

I liked this book but I didn't love it. I liked the fact that the author took her time to build up the characters not just Evie and Zach but everyone. It was such a relief to see that the author didn't rush the overall story. But with that being said, this book is slow. A whole lot of nothing happens for a very long time and I am not talking about the romance. Nothing really happened and with that being said the romance wasn't spectacular either. It was hard for me to believe Evie and Zach and that was disappointing. 

However, with that being said, I loved Zach's brother and I hope that book two is from his brother's point of view and his love story. 

Overall, not a bad beginning to a series but there needed a bigger spark and much more investment to keep things going and going as strong as the beginning of the book was. 

3 Pickles

Rebekah Weatherspoon starts off a new series with a charming (see what I did there?) cast of characters. I want everyone to get their own books: Blaire, Jesse, Sam, Lilah, Miss Leona, EVERYONE. The highlight of this first book for me was the female friendships that Evie had and the unconditional support she received from her friends--Weatherspoon is so good at creating community in her books.

However, there were a few things that didn't work for me here.
- Instead of the usual dual POVs of the love interests, there are occasional POV shifts to Evie's first nurse (briefly) and to Evie's agent Nicole, which were distracting and not wholly necessary.
- Zach and Evie are both super likeable characters, but Evie's memory loss makes it so that she doesn't really know who she is, which I think makes it hard to connect to her because she's so hesitant and unsure of herself even as she's trying to figure out who she is/will be. [SPOILER] Once she recovers her memory and is her true self again, she totally comes to life and jumps off the page.
- The reveal of Zach's reasons for pushing Evie away when they were younger comes too late for the reader--there wasn't a strong enough parallel between his reasons then and his reasons for chasing after her now, and I think that could have used more emphasis from the hospital to the reveal.

I am really looking forward to seeing more from this series--hoping for Jesse next!

Thanks to NetGalley and Kensington/Dafina for the ARC.

This was my first cowboy romance book and also the first book I have read by Rebekah Weatherspoon. I thought it was a charming romance and I devoured it in one day. The main characters Evie and Zach are so cute and likable, so are the rest of the Pleasant gang. We all need a second family like them to swoop in and lift us up at times of hardship and trouble. Zach’s grandma Leona, the matriarch of the family was another great character, it was so sweet how much she loved and genuinely cared for Evie. Very touching. Overall, this was a delightful second chances romance that kept me reading all day and I can’t wait for the rest of the trilogy to come out.

Rebekah Weatherspoon’s ‘A Cowboy to Remember’ is everything a good romance should be. With compelling protagonists, witty banter, and a whole lot of chemistry, first-time Weatherspoon readers and hard-core fans alike will be delighted by this novel. The best part? This is the first of a new series, and I already can’t wait to see what comes next.

After chef Evie Buchanan loses her memory after a terrible fall, she finds herself back in Charming, California in the presence of the man who once broke her heart. Cowboy Zach Pleasant is set on righting the wrongs of the past, which is tricky, since Evie doesn’t remember them. As Evie and Zach grow closer, and fragments of her memory begin to return, the question becomes whether or not these two will have a second chance at love, or whether the faults of the past and the realities of the present are too insurmountable.

This is the first Rebekah Weatherspoon novel I have ever read, and it most definitely will not be the last. Weatherspoon takes an interesting spin on what could perhaps be viewed as an unrealistic trope, and makes it So. Darn. Entertaining. I am here for all of it. And don’t even get me started on the simmering chemistry between Evie and Zach. I felt all of the feelings and then some. Weatherspoon is a world-building genius, and populates the narrative with vibrant, actualized characters. The story is fun, with minimal angst, and the ending will leave you with a huge smile on your face.

Hold on to your (cowboy) hats folks, and add ‘A Cowboy to Remember’ to you TBR pile, stat. And start getting excited for the rest of the series.

**Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with this ARC in exchange for my honest review.**