Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Spice: 🌶️

If you’re looking for something to get you into the Christmas mood or even just looking forward to winter, look no further. This lightly spiced Christmas romcom is heartwarming and cute, but not sickeningly sweet. However, if you hate miscommunication and two people obviously being into each other but not really seeing it, this book is not for you. Okay, you’ve been warned!

“I’m going to love her in all the quiet ways, the slow ways, the loud and obnoxious ways.”

Lovelight Farms is the first book in the Lovelight series and it has some pretty good banter, a few laugh out loud moments, and some decent tension between the two main characters.

Stella owns Lovelight Farms, a Christmas tree farm in the small town of Inglewild, but the business is struggling. (I didn’t say it was an original concept, I know you’ve probably read something like this or seen a movie with a similar plot.) Everything that could go wrong is going wrong—the trees are dying, supply trucks are not showing up, and she is barely able to keep things afloat. She feels like everyone is counting on her and in a last ditch effort, enters a contest that could help financially AND give them a little free publicity. Except when she fills out the entry form, she claims to own the farm with her boyfriend, thinking that would be more likely to win. The influencer who decides the contest is coming to visit for a week and when she needs someone to pretend to be her boyfriend, she turns to her best friend of nearly ten years, Luka Peters.

Tropes/What to Expect:

• Small town

• Fake dating

• Friends to lovers

Luka is such a great MMC. He’s thoughtful and sweet, he cooks and cuddles, and every time he visits, he gifts her with one of those little air freshener trees. (You know, because she owns a tree farm?) You can tell from the beginning that he’s been in love with her for some time, but Stella is too afraid of losing him. I’d say probably everyone knew he was in love with her, including the townspeople, because nobody was surprised when they started fake dating.

I liked that this book had a bit of a slower burn and enjoyed watching their relationship grow. I just found Stella to be a bit frustrating and not a character I could relate to very well. The side characters were unique and charming, which makes sense since I assume most of them will end up in one of the other books in the series.

“I know you can take care of yourself. You’ve been doing that for as long as I’ve known you. But let me hold your hand while you do it, okay?”

I think I could recommend this book to most romance book readers, its easy and cute and warm and fuzzy and holiday themed. If you liked the vibe of The Bright Spot by Jill Shalvis, you’d probably like this one, too.