OUTBACK DREAMS | BY RACHEL JOHNS

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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.

I also loved the fact that she started to stand up for herself and not take the nonsense from her family anymore. She knew what she had to do and she just started doing it.

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.

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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 weren’t necessary and could have been left out to make the story a bit shorter, I feel like it dragged just a tiny bit.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rachael Johns is an English teacher by trade, a mum 24/7, a Diet Coke addict, a cat lover and chronic arachnophobe. She rarely sleeps and never irons. She is also the bestselling, ABIA-winning author of The Patterson Girls and a number of other romance and women’s fiction books, including her recent bestseller, Something to Talk About. Rachael is currently Australia’s leading writer of contemporary relationship stories around women’s issues, a genre she has coined ‘life-lit’.
Rachael has finaled in a number of competitions, including the Australian Romance Readers Awards. Jilted (her first rural romance) won Favourite Australian Contemporary Romance in 2012, and The Patterson Girls won the 2016 Romance Writers of Australia RUBY Award and also the 2015 Australian Book Industry Award for General Fiction. She continually places in Booktopia’s Top 50 Aussie Authors poll.
Rachael lives in the Swan Valley with her hyperactive husband, three mostly-gorgeous heroes-in-training, two ravenous cats, a cantankerous bird and a very badly-behaved dog.

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