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Fancy Pants (Texas Historical Series #1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Cathy Marie Hake
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 28643
Media: Paperback
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0764203177
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780764203176
ASIN: 0764203177
Publication Date: September 1, 2007
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Book Description
When Britisher Lady Sydney Hathwell's father dies, the American who planned to wed her suddenly reneges. Stranded in America and penniless, Sydney contacts a relative in Texas who, mistaking her male-sounding name, invites his "nephew" to join him on his ranch. "Big Tim" Creighton, however, is appalled when this mincing fop arrives at Forsaken. He determines he'll turn Fancy Pants Hathwell into a man before the boss returns home. From the get-go, he has "the kid" mucking stalls, clearing and plowing a field, and assisting with a difficult calving. But when Sydney's true identity is uncovered, Tim resents being deceived. Yet in time, he also finds that he doesn't like all the attention Sydney garners now that she's wearing pretty gowns...Together Sydney and Tim will discover the importance of family and what it means to be a man--and a woman--of God.
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Fancy Pants takes you on an adventure September 4, 2007
M. Baker (MN USA)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Sydney chooses to go a different path than society would deem proper. She heads to her uncle's farm and from the moment she reaches it, she has to prove to the rest of the cowboys she's man enough for the job. She meets Tim who runs the farm in her uncle's absence. He's prepared to make a man out of her and the fun begins! When Sydney's secret is revealed, it's an adventure to find out who's more stubborn Tim or Sydney.
Cathy has done it again. As you read this story you will find yourself laughing out loud. She seems to have an amazing grasp on the male mind and uses Sydney to reveal that to us. Women should be such good studies of how men think. Cathy also has done a lot of research into what life was like back in the Wild West and it shows through in her writing.
This is a book that was hard to put down and was able to be read in a couple days!!
 terrific amusing inspirational historical romance September 8, 2007
Harriet Klausner
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
In 1889 following the death of her father, Lady Sydney Hathwell, escorted by her Aunt Serena leaves England to join her American fiance Rexall Hume in New York. However, he agrees to her insistence of an acceptable period of mourning before they marry. One year and one day later, Rexall demands they wed, but Sydney knows they do not suit.
Sydney receives a telegram from her Uncle Fuller, who was unaware he had living relatives until he got her note. He invites his nephew to live on his Forsaken Ranch in Gooding, Texas where he explained no human females reside. With Hume's unknowing help disguised as a boy she goes to the ranch. Her uncle is away and the ranch foreman widower "Big Tim" Creighton thinks his boss will be disappointed with his foppish nephew. He decides to change this "FANCY PANTS" into a real man though he also hopes to drive his lordship back across the content and ocean. Instead Lord Sydney begins to fall in love as she sees the vulnerable caring side of Big Tim, but fears once Uncle Fuller learns he has a niece he will kick her out, leaving her vulnerable to Rexall.
This is a terrific amusing inspirational historical romance. Sydney is a fabulous nephew as the ranch hands led by Big Tim struggle to toughen up the girly boy going so far as to take her to a brothel. Big Tim in many ways is the more interesting protagonist as he began to fall in love with her when she was an English sissy. The story line is intelligent and fun to read because Hume is not a nasty villain as he persists in marrying Sydney although she rejects them as unsuited (could his story be next?). Cathy Marie Hake has written a droll late nineteenth century tale that sub-genre readers will cherish.
Harriet Klausner
Delightful! September 18, 2007
Susan Snodgrass (SC)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Cathy Marie Hake has done it again. I have read several of her books and not once was I disappointed. She had me laughing out loud at points all through this book. She inserts little tid bits of history throughout, too, that are quite fascinating. That in addition to the normal history part of a book such as this. I wish I could give it more than 5 stars. It was spiritual and funny at the same time. After all, the Bible tells us in Psalms, "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine."
Buy this book!
 Fancy Pants April 28, 2008
Sandra Ward (North Carolina)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I thought this book was not as good as others I have read by Cathy Marie Hake, and found it disappointing. The story line was so perdictable, no surprises. It really started off slowly and a little far fetch in believability in the story line.
 Dissapointing July 2, 2008
H. L. Fisher
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
*Some Spoilers*
I really wanted to like Fancy Pants as I think that the premise has the promise of a great read. However I was terribly disappointed.
Lady Sydney is an unaffecting and unsympathetic character whose ruse is carried out farther then necessary or probable for a woman of her time. She is waiting to reach her "age of majority" yet I was surprised to find that she is 17 waiting for 18 not 20 waiting for 21 as it most defiantly would have been for that time period. Through the beginning of the book I found her to be ridiculously naive for her supposed advanced education, making foolish assumptions and basing her impulsive decisions on them. By the end of the book I didn't find that she had improved or grown in many ways at all even though she wrestles with being a sinner and the idea of forgiveness and ultimately accepts salvation.
Big Tim really confuses me. We see ghosts of his background that we are supposed to connect to but are never fully developed; they could be powerful touchstones to explain who he is but fall flat. Tim's attitudes and actions are puzzling; he dislikes Sydney instantly and sets about to pound her into manhood, next we find him in a fury upon discovery of Sydney's true identity, suddenly he is leading her to Christ then before we know it he is thoroughly and possessively in love with her and on the way to the alter. For a man who is a respected Christian member of the community- loved by all- he comes off to me as angry, obstinate and undesirable marriage material.
The conclusion of the story and developing romance is positively rushed; the much anticipated arrival of Sydney's uncle is conspicuously lacking and the triumph over lurking evil simplistic, insufficient and anticlimactic.
Throughout Fancy Pants I was thrown out of the story by the plentiful anachronisms, words, phrases, facts and ideas that are out of place for their time. Most would say that it is a little thing and can be ignored but for me it was jarring as was the text arrangement and lack of page breaks. Overall I believe Fancy Pants could have been better written and plotted with warmer characters and believable events.
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