Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison

23 reviews

kaitrates's review against another edition

I swear this book was written to my personal distaste.

👎🏻Surprise alcoholic dad. (NOPE)
👎🏻A heroine who’s too stupid to live. 
👎🏻She’s also lying to her employees and jeopardizing their livelihood.
👎🏻And she refuses to as for help.
👎🏻The most obvious friends who actually love each other *like that.*

I was bored outta my mind. Every other note was a 🙄 or a 🤢 and by the quarter mark i was done. 

I did go and skim the last chapter and like fine it was cute enough. Love a good POV switch. I tried to read *just* the smut for funnies but was so disinterested in the characters and their journey that i couldn’t bring myself to. 

I’d consider trying this author again but I’m not sure she’s for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Alcoholism

3readingcircus's review against another edition

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Terminal illness, and Infidelity

aliteraryescape's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Death of parent and Alcoholism

lauramparis's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Alcoholism, Abandonment, and Death of parent

sarahmae531's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I thought it was a nice book. I enjoyed the overall story line and the best friends to lovers + fake dating tropes. The writing at times seemed kind of juvenile, but nothing too unbearable.
I had some people recommend this as a steamy Christmas read, and while the few scenes that were steamy were steamy, I wouldn’t classify the whole book as being very spicy.. 

On the fence on whether I’ll pick up the other two books in the series.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism

bookcasey's review

hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

There’s pretty much no diversity in the book, and the cops are helpful “good guys” (lol) so this holiday story is as white as an actual Hallmark movie. That said, the spicy aspects of the book are really comfortable and cozy, which isn’t something you find too often. Tropes include

friends to lovers, found family, and a good dose of not sharing their feelings

. So if you’re looking for something easy and are willing to overlook the lack of diversity, it’s actually a pretty cute romance. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, and Death of parent

kaylahcc's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Death of parent

whichdirection's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

So so so cute, very well written. Awesome chemistry between them the whole time, really rich side characters and world.
2 sex scenes (plus a bonus chapter that is another sex scene on the KU version, idk if there’s another version)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment, Infidelity, Grief, and Alcoholism

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, and Death of parent

Abandonment:

Estelle’s father left her mother when she got pregnant, he had a wife & another child (born shortly after Estelle) that didn’t know about her. Overcoming her fear of being abandoned is the main part of her character development, as she worried Luka & her two business partners will leave her.

Alcoholism:

Estelle’s father shows up to Thanksgiving Dinner intoxicated and ends up passing out, it is implied that that happens a lot

Infidelity:

Estelle’s father was unfaithful to his wife when he impregnated Estelle’s mom, but additionally it’s mentioned about 90% of the way through the book that his wife is leaving him because he was cheating with multiple ppl at his office

Cancer, Death of parent, Grief:

Estelle’s mom died of Cancer before the events of the novel, she mentions her mother & missing her/keeping her memory alive multiple times; Luka’s father died when he was a kid (exact cause unknown, but not cancer) and they mention it & his & his mother’s grief multiple times

amandalorianxo's review against another edition

lighthearted relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

This is a novel I have seen floating around social media due mainly because of the new covers with a new artist in charge of drawing the designs. It’s a somewhat different take on the cartoon drawings but it is what it is ya know. Anyway going in I was expecting more from this one. A lot more. I wanted details about the ins and outs of running a tree lot, Stella’s friendship with Layla & even a little more info on Luca. But instead I got a heroine who signs up for an IG influencer to check out her farm but that didn’t show up until way later in the story. Repetitive dialogue, world building descriptions and self-sabotage. Character developing? Eh, not as built up in this one. I was told the other books in the series are better so maybe I’ll give them a chance but we’ll see. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Alcoholism, Abandonment, and Death of parent

kirbylover16's review against another edition

lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

Overall boring and disappointing. It takes 60% of the story to finally start the social media plot. Luca deserves better. There's barely any plot and almost nothing about the tree farm. Stella is so annoying and whiney. The conflicts are only conflicts because Stella is dense. Luca tells her over and over that he loves her. It's not even fake dating. Beckett is the best character but gets no screen time. Besides the setting and diabetes Stella must have from eating all those baked goods there's no Christmas in this story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism