Review: 4.5 Alpha Male Stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2014
I love a good story with an alpha male, so add that in with a heroine that isn’t bat shit crazy or totally weak and more than likely I’m going to love the book. C.P. Smith is an author that I will be watching for.Jennifer is starting over. At 39, her husband of 19 years has died and her only child is off at college. She has always wanted to live in the Colorado Mountains, so Jenn moves there and starts a new life. Working as a reporter, Jenn meets the small towns Sheriff Jack and sparks fly.Jack is 40 and has never met a woman worth settling down and marring, but he has dated a lot of the single ladies in his 20 plus years of dating and is known by the locals as a heartbreaker. When he first meets Jenn he notices her, but after speaking to her he knows she’s a women he wants.Jenn has only been with her easy going husband, and does not need the town heartbreaker who is also law enforcement breaking her heart when he moves on, so Jenn decides she’s not going there with him. Jack on the other hand has never met a woman like Jenn and isn’t about to let her walk away from him. She's hot, sweet, innocent and doesn’t hold his job over his head, so what’s not to love?“Twenty years, not once in twenty years have I ever met a women who tied my stomach in knots, and you stomped into my life four days ago, and just the thought of you, Christ….you’re my kryptonite, Jenn….You’re a danger to me, because when you’re around, I can’t see anything else.”Dating should be easy, but there is someone killing women in their town. Women who look just like Jenn. Jack wants to keep Jenn safe, and Jenn is a reporter looking for her next big break so keeping his eye on her is a full time job in itself.“Jesus, I fell for a women who can admit when she’s wrong, swear to Christ I didn’t know they existed.”When the killer gets caught I was thinking great, now we can see how life will be with Jenn and Jack with out the threat of dying, but that’s not what happen. More crazy, more kidnapping, and for me it ended up being a little too much. I really enjoyed the book, but I wasn’t totally happy with the last 20% of the story, which is why I didn’t give it a whole 5 stars.A Reason To Breathe is a complete standalone story told by both Jack and Jenn’s POV.