Synopsis:
The Christmas Tree Farm is a spicy romantic mystery for fans of Gilmore Girls with a HEA guaranteed!
Kira North hates Christmas. Which is unfortunate since she just bought a Christmas tree farm in a town that’s too cute for its own good.
Bennett Ellis is on vacation in Dream Harbor taking a break from his life in California. And most importantly, taking a break from his latest run of disastrous dates.
After a run in with Kira in her fields, Ben has no intention of offering to help the grumpy owner set up her tree farm, despite the fact she’s clearly got no idea what she’s doing.
Kira knows she should stop being so stubborn, but her farm is not all cute and cozy like people always show on social media, it’s borderline dangerous with no heating, and she’d rather no one saw it.
But somehow fate finds Ben at Kira’s farm once more, and as Kira watches him swing an ax at the first tree, she finds herself appreciating his strength and questioning why she refused help in the first place..
Review:
The Christmas Tree Farm was my second book from Laurie Gilmore and I definitely enjoyed it more than her first release. It didn’t have a weird timeline like the first book and the pacing was pretty much perfect. So much so that I flew through it in just a few days despite it being my last read in my ‘12 books of Christmas’ series and I was pretty much feeling very over Christmas books.
I wasn’t a huge fan of Kira to begin with as I was getting bored of ‘main characters that hate Christmas’ but it turns out she doesn’t actually dislike the holiday, more that she’s feeling a little down on her luck. The second she was nice to Bennett’s dogs had me sold that she’s actually a nice person because who doesn’t love dogs? She’s still a pretty shallow character and could be too mean sometimes but she does have decent development.
The Christmas tree farm was such a lovely setting. I’ve never actually been to one before but this book really made me want to. I love the idea of cutting down your own tree. It would have been nicer if Kira wasn’t only in it for the money though. It was nice that she got excited about the different elements of it like putting up lights (there’s a Taylor Swift reference about this) and wanting to get reindeer. I could clearly picture the farm covers in twinkling lights, so festive.
On a whole, The Christmas Tree Farm isn’t massively festive. However, I did really enjoy the Christmas Day scenes. Although understanding the different gifts the group gave each other wasn’t the easiest as I haven’t read The Cinnamon Bun Bookstore yet. I had planned to read it before this but time did not allow.
Overall, The Christmas Tree Farm is pretty sweet festive romance that would make a great Hallmark movie. Take that as you will.
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