Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison
The romantic comedy Lovelight Farms stars a dashing, freckled data analyst, a sloppy, upbeat proprietor of a Christmas tree farm, and a little village with the best hazelnut lattes on the east coast. This sultry holiday romance ends happily ever after. It is the first book in a run of related standalone novels centred on the three Lovelight owners.
Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison
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Where the light of love shines…
a clearing with dead trees. aggressive raccoon family takeover of the Santa barn. likewise unexpectedly vanished shipments. Stella Bloom’s imagined enchanted winter wonderland is not Lovelight Farms.
She enters a competition with instafamous influencer Evelyn St. James in an effort to raise money to preserve the Christmas tree farm she has loved since she was a young child. She might just be able to rescue the farm from financial ruin with the additional publicity and the $100,000 cash award. There is only one issue. She lied on the application and claimed she owns Lovelight Farms with her partner in order to make the farm appear like a romantic getaway for the holidays. But there isn’t a boyfriend.
Luka Peters, your best friend, comes in. He simply returned home for some hot chocolate, and in the process acquired a farm and a committed girlfriend.
Stella, the main character, was engaging and well-rounded, even if she occasionally irritated me with her commitment problems and her secretive conduct. Her interactions with Luka came across as genuine and organic. Warm and inviting, their relationship generated just the proper amount of steam.
The majority of the plot is ridiculous, which is to be expected given the genre. I didn’t want or expect Les Miserables or anything when I saw this since I was searching for a good method to put my brain off, and it fulfilled my expectations. There isn’t a “big city girl transitioning to a tiny village,” but there is a traditional Christmas tree farm that has to be saved. She hasn’t done anything else and has lived there since she was 16 years old. As far as I can tell from what I read, there is a significant time gap between the time her mother passed away when she was 21 and the beginning of the novel when she acquired the tree farm. Had she a job? Has she attended college? She paid for it in what way? Where was she residing? How did she obtain health insurance or pay her bills? No idea, but that’s okay because the plot still unfolded wonderfully.
Even better, there was a tree farm saboteur who was odd enough to keep me reading but not a stressful enough mystery to detract from the romantic plot. Even if the outcome was a touch sudden (needs a few more breadcrumbs at the start), it was still cute and enjoyable.
For a character like Stella who really struggles with commitment and trust, the blockage that constantly occurs at the 3/4 mark was grating yet believable. It gets addressed rather soon. Good writing is present.
