Lovelight Farms
by B.K. Borison
Narrator: Pippa Jayne
Release Date: November 10, 2021
Publisher: Berkley
Book #1 in the Lovelight series
Number of Pages: 332
Contemporary Romance
Ages 15 and up
CW: grief, cancer
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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.
This book gets a lot of praise, as does the rest of the series. At least that’s what I’ve seen. I greatly enjoyed this story, but there were a few issues I had. I really wish this story would have been a dual POV. I don’t think the single POV served any purpose while I think dual POV could have added so much to this story. That’s just my preference and opinion though.
I love the friendship/relationship Stella and Luka share. They are true ride-or-die friends. Yet it drove me nuts that Stella was so obtuse when it came to Luka’s reciprocal feelings. I think she did a much better job of hiding her true feelings from him than he did from her, yet she was clueless. The man basically spells it out for her and still…crickets. It was frustrating as the reader to feel it was just being used to lengthen the story. But I did love these two together, especially when they were letting the walls down and acting on their true feelings.
There was still a lot about this book that I liked. I’m curious about all of the side characters and want to see where things are going for them, so I’ll be reading at least one more to see how this author’s writing progresses. I believe this was her debut so there is a bit of grace there. I did care about the characters and the story, I just felt certain things were drawn out too long more for the page count than the actual story.
3.5 stars
All In Good Time 
I agree. It would have been better with dual POV. I think if you liked this one, the rest of the series will be even better for you. That’s the way I felt at least.