REVIEW - Sweet Dreams (Colorado Mountain) by Kristen Ashley

5 Star Review

What can I say.... I ABSOLUTELY LOVE everything Kristen Ashley has written (so far anyway) While this is all true about my worship of all things Kristen Ashley, this book had a few hickups that held me back.

The beginning of this book was kinda rocky for me, the on again / off again relationship between the H and his ex was a put off for me, as well as the enemies-to-lovers build up. Who his character was portrayed throughout the book was incongruous with our first impression. But that being said, it was still great and her alpha-male hero was very alpha and swoon worthy.

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All Her life, Lauren felt like something special was going to happen to her. But after years of living her life, and the dissappointing end to her marriage, Lauren decided to accept that nothing special was ever going to happen to her. She sells her house and most all of her belongings and takes a road trip looking for nothing - just to live in peace somewhere she can exist. Somewhere away from the pretentious life she had been living, and the fake faces of the people who let her down.

She falls in love with the small town of Carnal in the Colorado mountains and gets a job as a waitress in a biker bar owned bu Tatum "Tate" Jackson. Lauren meets Tate on her first day on the job and he is shockingly rude and insulting to her, wounding her feelings and her pride with thoughtless, harsh words. After recovering from the initial shock of the incident, Lauren stands up to him, shows his her "sass" and so begins their slow building relationship.

Lauren starts bonding with her co-workers, customers and the town in general. We learn that the "special" thing she had been looking for all her life was in her the whole time. She was special and the town and Tate learned it too.

Throughout the beginning of the book, Tate seriously was a JERK! and said the most rotten things and then he 'came around' and instead of apologizing for what he did, he would tell her to "deal with it and get over it" SERIOUSLY? He was crude, unapologetic, frustrating and hypocritical and just about the time I was ready to write him off he would go and say or do something totally sweet that melted my heart.

"Are you the good guy, the sweet guy who takes care of me or are you this guy who's kind of a jerk?" His answer was instantaneous. "Im both of those guys, babe."

His crappy, hipocritical attitude did pose as the catalyst to make Lauren come into her own "biker babe" persona. She found her pride and gave as good as she got, and he loved it!

"Tatum Jackson, you're lucky you're a smokin/ hot, badass, biker, bounty hunter who looks good in jeans... and I love you or you would be seriously not worth it."

About half way through, I fell in love with Tate. He opened himself up, we got the why's and why not's about what made him the man he is, and when he fell for Lauren, he did it right.... so... another swoon worthy review for all things Kristen... She pulled it out and published another winner.

Combine Lauren and Tate's path to 'happily ever after' with a mystery/seriel killer reaking havoc on the town and Tate being one badass, biker, ex-professional football player, bounty hunter and its another recipe for success.

4.75 stars for this book. Its a keeper :)

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