Title: Lovelight Farms (Lovelight #1)
Author: B.K. Borison
Genre: Romance, Contemporary
Publisher: Berkley
Source: Publisher via NetGalley
Format: Ebook
Release Date: November 10, 2021
Rating: ★★★★
Goodreads Synopsis:
Two best friends fake date to reach their holiday happily ever after in this first romantic comedy in the Lovelight series.
A pasture of dead trees. A hostile takeover of the Santa barn by a family of raccoons. And shipments that have mysteriously gone missing. Lovelight Farms is not the magical winter wonderland of Stella Bloom’s dreams.
In an effort to save the Christmas tree farm she’s loved since she was a kid, Stella enters a contest with Instagram-famous influencer Evelyn St. James. With the added publicity and the $100,000 cash prize, Stella might just be able to save the farm from its financial woes. There’s just one problem. To make the farm seem like a romantic destination for the holidays, she lied on her application and said she owns Lovelight Farms with her boyfriend. Only…there is no boyfriend.
Enter best friend Luka Peters. He just stopped by for some hot chocolate and somehow got a farm and a serious girlfriend in the process. But fake dating his best friend might be the best Christmas present he’s ever received.
Review:
Stella Bloom owns Lovelight Farms, a Christmas tree farm that is struggling after a series of mysterious events. To save the farm, Stella submits an application to a contest to be featured on the social media pages of Evelyn St. James. The prize comes with publicity and $100,000. Evelyn will visit each applicant to make her decision. However, to make her application more appealing, Stella said that she owns the farm with her boyfriend, even though she’s currently single. She asks her best friend, Luka Peters, to pretend to be her boyfriend during Evelyn’s visit. Their fake dating escalates into a relationship that is what they’ve both always wanted.
This was such a sweet story. Stella and Luka were a great couple. I loved how they were friends and then had to “fake date” their way to a real relationship. I would have liked to see more of their visit with Evelyn. There was one surprise when she arrived, but I think there could have been more funny moments. Evelyn did speed up the romance though, which made for a cute ending.
Lovelight Farms is a fun Christmas rom com!
Thank you Berkley Romance for providing a digital copy of this book.
Content warnings: death of parent, parental abandonment
Other books in the series:
- In the Weeds (Lovelight #2)
- Mixed Signals (Lovelight #3)
Have you read Lovelight Farms? What did you think of it?
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