I truly am in my cowboy sweet romance small town romance era, and I thoroughly enjoyed this. I really enjoyed Monty and Faiths story growing up, and even thought that the author did an amazing job at furthering to develop their characters separately before bringing them together. I also truly think that they were just amazing together, and so this helped me root for them and want to see more from them. I truly finished not wanting to leave this world created and I think that is a perfect example of this authors exemplary writing.

ARC provided by NetGalley for my honest opinion. What's not to love about a friends to romance book that is heartfelt and meets all of the sweetness factors? Smut factor: 1 Romance factor: 4

Faith and Monty are looking for love and end up finding it in the least expected place..

Outback Dreams is a sweet friends to lovers romance that has just the right amount of angst and swoon to satisfy any romance lover. I adored Faith and Monty's story and look forward to checking out more from this series in the future. This is my first book by this author and definitely won't be my last.

Thank you to NetGalley & Harlequin AU for the opportunity to read and review this book.

MY REVIEW:

What's not to love about best friends falling in love?

Faith and Monty have been friends for their entire life and they depend on each other in a way that they don’t depend on anyone else.

Monty's worked odd jobs to save up and get the farm of his dreams. All he's ever wanted was a farm and he's so close.

Faith has been pretty stagnant since her mom passed away and this has made her brother and father treat her like a house maid. She longs to help on their farm but they won't allow her to. And she's allowed this kind of treatment for 10 years.

Until Faith goes to a school reunion and starts to realized that she's just standing still on not moving on or doing anything but watching the days go by.

She realizes that she has to make some big changes and she has to do it now. She signs up to host a fundraiser and that’s the beginning of the changes she starts to make. She also realized that she may have the hots for her best friend Monty.

She also decides she needs a new look and new clothes!

Yay Faith! I loved how Faith decided to start taking charge of her life and started to make some changes. She knew she wasn’t living the life she wanted to and she decided to do something about it. I loved her take charge attitude.

And when she picked her charity and started to plan it out, she did such a great job. I love how the whole town wanted to help and be a part of it. It was so heartwarming to see that other people cared just as much as she did.

Monty was all about the hard work to get his farm, I loved his determination and drive to accomplish his goals. Also his passion for what he wanted.

Monty's worked so hard to get what he wants that he's neglected his family and sometimes it was hard to deal with his autistic brother. And the farm that he loved had to be sold so that the family could move to the city so his brother Will could get the treatments and care that he needed.

Then Monty starts to notice that Faith has a new look and she's kinda hot and is making him have feelings he's never felt before. He's appalled by his reaction to her so he tries to put it out of his mind.

Him and Faith have been friends for so long why mess that up?

Monty did annoy me a bit, he took forever to realize what he wanted and Faith had to deal with the fall out. It seemed like at first he didn’t care as much as she did.

And I was read to hit him over the head like hello! She's right there in front of you, everything you've been looking for in a partner is right there!

"Damn traitorous cow. She was such a hussy!"

When he finally gets his act together and takes over Faith's duty of milking her cow was hilarious.

This was a really nice love story of best friends that started to become more to each other.

WOULD I RECOMMEND:

I would recommend this book. If you love best friends falling in love, small towns that band together to help each other out and friends in the places you never expect this is the book for you.

I am curious to see where the story goes from here, the author did have secondary characters that I feel could be next in the line of falling in love.

I would like to see where the stories lead to and who ends up being with who.

The only thing I would say is that some scenes in the story were unnecessary and could have been left out to make the story a bit shorter, I feel like it dragged just a tiny bit.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley and I also purchased the book.

This book launches a series around the town of Bunyip Bay in Australia. I enjoy this book as I not only received a romance but I was able to learn a few things about the culture in that country. There were times that my e-reader's dictionary didn't even know the word but that is the beauty of this author, I would eventually learn it or it wasn't necessary to really understanding the story.

I adored the fact that this was written in my favorite dual POV format. There were times when I really wanted to slap Monty (Daniel Montgomery) so very much. He seemed like such a selfish man and was focused on the wrong things. But reading from his POV really helped me to better understand him. I still wanted to slap him though. To me, that is a sign of a wonderful story. One that brings me the reader to such depth of emotions.

There were a scene or two that may offend some but there is a good story to be read here.

This is a best friend love story that takes some turns along the way to reaching for their dreams. Monty loves working on the farm and is heart broken as a teenager when his parent sell the family farm and moves to the city to get treatments for his brother Will. After years of working Monty has saved up to be able to purchase a farm. Monty has had Faith as his best friend. She has shared everything with her. Then one night he suddenly doesn’t see her as his best mate and notices how beautiful she really is to him.

Taking the risk of losing her friendship has Faith wondering if she should tell him how much she loves him.

Thanks to Netgalley for complimentary copy.
Really enjoyed this story.