Lovelight Farms (The Lovelight Series)

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I’ll be hooome for Christmasss, youu can counttt on meee 🎶 as I tell you to not walk but run and get this book in your hands. Consider me fallen hopelessly in love with this book, with Stella and Luka, and the world that is the Lovelight series. I’m not usually a fan of friends-to-lovers or miscommunication tropes (give me a morally grey villain any day of the week), but Lovelight Farms is the perfect mixture of the two. It’s achingly sweet to watch these two childhood friends slowly realise what everyone and their cat has already known for years – they are head-over-heels in love with each other. Nova Porter isn’t looking for love, and she certainly has no explanation for her attraction to buttoned-up, three-piece-suit-wearing investment banker Charlie Milford. Maybe it’s his charm? Or maybe it’s his determination to help her fledgling business however he can. Either way, she’s distracted every time he’s around. With her new tattoo studio set to open in her hometown of Inglewild, she doesn’t have time for frivolous flirtations. Their friendship is so beautiful and their body language definitely shows how deep that love, both friendship and romantic love, runs through them. When I hear the writing advice that is “show not tell,” I think this book perfectly does that and it moves the story forward even more beautifully. Enter best friend Luka Peters. He just came home for some hot chocolate, and somehow got a farm and a serious girlfriend in the process.

I first noticed the Lovelight Farms series last year due to the absolutely adorable book covers! I loved how each book represents a different season and the covers reflect them perfectly. Each book contains explicit sex scenes, so these books are pretty spicy! The steam is definitely not the focus of the book, but there are a few scenes in each novel so it’s found throughout the whole series. Each of these novels has a similar spice level. Thank you Rebecca for continuing my obsession with fictional men, you are an incredible writer and a beautiful person. Enter Luka Peters, Stella’s best friend of almost ten years and the guy she's hopelessly in love with. She wants to ask him to be her fake boyfriend for the week Evelyn is staying, but equally, she's terrified. Thankfully she does, and oof is the tension sweet and sexy and toe curling.My mother specifically said that she doesn’t care if you’re unconscious at the table, just that you wake up in time for pie.” My Review: I felt like I was cheesy grinning the whole way through this book!! It’s a delight any time of year but absolute perfection around Christmas. I could so easily picture myself walking among the trees of the farm or stepping foot into the bakery. I truly got lost in the setting and it made the book all that much more enjoyable! It’s warm, fuzzy and surprisingly streamy Christmas caper that I couldn’t help but fall in love with. Yes, it’s slightly predictable but I couldn’t care less, in fact, it was exactly what I needed.

What's particularly refreshing about this romance story is that it's not just a superficial addition to the novel. The romance is woven into the fabric of the story, providing depth and complexity to both Stella and Luka’s characters. Their relationship is also a testament to the power of love and how it can help people through difficult times. I also ate up the way these two tip-toed around their feelings for each other. Friends to lovers is one of my favorite tropes and this is one of the best versions of it! It’s the snuggle-up-with-a-good-book kind of read. Complete with all the feels, drama, family & laughs you want. I highly recommend this whole series for literally everyone. It has charm, spice, quirky characters, nosy neighbors, laugh out loud moments, and a thread of tenderness and deep love connecting it all.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.