I’m just going to say, this felt more like Woman’s Lit with a touch of romance and honestly, in today’s world, it probably would have been a better story if the book leaned more into empowering women to run a business instead of forcing this idea that women need a man to fake their way into winning a competition. Also, don’t get me started on the friends, but they seem to lack talking topic… This is where Luka comes into the picture since they’ve been friends for years.

That’s a lot of pressure all the way around, but add in that Stella lied on her application saying she runs the farm with her boyfriend. The story revolves around Stella’s dilapidated farm and how Stella is hoping that one Instagram influencer is going to hopefully revive it when she -cross fingers- wins a contest. While I did sense Luka liked Stella, there wasn’t that instant chemistry that usually drives these kinds of tropes, at least what I’m normally used to reading. However, Luka and Stella just felt awkward from the get go. I love a good friends to lovers trope, I also love a good fake dating book, they both have their pitfalls and awkward moments that usually lead to the characters opening up or great nekky times. I tried to love this book, but I didn’t seem to connect with it the way other people did. This is a friends to lovers with a holiday theme and fake dating thrown in to boot. Review Rating: 3.5 Gold Stars Review/Synopsis: This sweet and steamy romance is a holiday happily ever after and the first book in a series of interconnected standalones following the three Lovelight owners.Genre/Tropes: Friends-to-Lovers/Holiday/Fake Relationship Romance Lovelight Farms is a romantic comedy featuring a handsome freckled data analyst, a messy, optimistic Christmas-tree-farm owner, and a small town with the best hazelnut lattes on the east coast.

He just came home for some hot chocolate, and somehow got a farm and a serious girlfriend in the process.

Only there is no boyfriend.Įnter her best friend Luka Peters. To make the farm seem like a romantic destination for the holidays, she lied on the application and said she owns Lovelight Farms with her boyfriend. With the added publicity and the $100,000 cash prize, she might just be able to save the farm from its financial woes. In an effort to save the Christmas tree farm she’s loved since she was a kid, she enters a contest with instafamous influencer Evelyn St. 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.

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