Synopsis:
Olivia Brent has one summer to save the dairy farm she just inherited.
But there’s one problem, and it’s not her lactose intolerance.
Jake Milovic.
The brooding farmhand has inherited exactly fifty percent of Brent Farm, and he’s so convinced the city girl can’t work the land, he bets she can’t save it in a summer.
Determined to prove him wrong, Olivia accepts what might be the dumbest wager of her life.
His strategy to win seems simple: follow her around, shirtlessly distracting her between bouts of relentless taunting. And it’s effective—if his dark eyes and rare smiles aren’t enough to sidetrack her, the sweaty, rolling topography of the manbeast’s body would do the trick.
What they don’t know: they’ll have to weather more than each other.
Mysterious circumstances throw the farm into disarray, and with the dairy farm in danger, Olivia and Jake have to work together. But when they do, there’s more to fear than either of them imagined.
Because now their hearts are on the line, and the farm won’t be the only casualty if they fail.
Review:
Bet the Farm has been sitting in my Audible library for quite some time now. I also mentioned it recently in a best covers post. After taking an extended break from Audible plus, I have a subscription again and while browsing my library, I saw this was leaving the service soon. Well, it’s not available for free now. I finished it just before.
I really liked the premise of this book but I felt like it went on for longer than necessary. This didn’t need to be over 9 hours long. There were repeated arguments and I really could have done without the ‘spice’ and the constant lustful thoughts. Also Olivia refers to a cow’s udders as nipples multiple times and it made me really uncomfortable. Plus it was annoying because it’s just not the correct word to use.
Jake was actually horrible and that made it really difficult to root for both the farm and the romance. He was rude to Olivia every time he saw her, which at first made sense. She abandoned the farm and it looks like she’s only come back to claim her inheritance, but she clears up very quickly that isn’t the case. However, he’s horrific to her still because he thinks he has some claim over the farm and her grandfather because he’s worked there for so long. He has no empathy for the fact she lost her sole caregiver that took her in when her parents died. Ugh he’s the worst. Also, it seems pretty dangerous and unhygienic to constantly work shirtless on a farm. Put a top on you poser.
I usually listen to audiobooks at a decently high speed (1.7x at least) as I find the narration to be too slow, but after a few hours I upped this to 2x and then even quicker to get through the last few chapters. I hardly even listened to the epilogue because I couldn’t bare to hear more from Jake’s perspective.
After a lot of consideration I’d give Bet The Farm two stars out of five. The narration was done well, although I still hate men trying to do women’s voices, and the actual story was interesting. Even if the characters were insufferable.
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