This is a feel good romance and woman's lit story. Autumn and Ember are sisters who are close but as different as could be but come together to start an animal rescue farm. They each have a side story with different romances, one sweet and one spicy, and even though they banter like sisters they have each other's back and no one should try to come between them. This was typical Lori Foster at her best and it has a high recommendation from me. This would be a perfect summer weekend read or this summer it would make an anytime read!

**Received this ARC for review from the publisher via NetGalley**

A perfect time for a feel good romance. These two sisters are super close, but yet so different. They have each other's best interests at heart, tho' they don't always agree on exactly what that is. The whole story kind of revolves around the animal rescue started by Autumn and Ember, with the farm they inherited. Love this and will never, ever tire of beloved fur babies in a journey, no matter what either may be, preferring happy endings, no matter how rocky the start. Their very attuned Pavlov, picked himself to be the mascot and official greeter of Fresh Start Farm.
Autumn's old crush from high school comes back to Sunset, KY, with his adorable daughter, and this time around, he notices Autumn right back. When the whole family decides it's the right thing, they certainly do their part to ensure Autumn and Tash get a bit of quality alone time. And by the whole family, I'm including Mike, the all around handyman who's been with them for a few years now, and who they can't seem to get along without, especially Ember, despite her seemingly partyish style. Yeah, there's more to Mike, more to Ember, and more to their romance.
The hilarity of a family living extremely close together, small towns and all that entails, will have you feeling quite good, along with a lot of LoL moments. Feeling the love here that runs deep! A gossip line that just runs, Autumn has a bit of a history thats needs to stay just that. Lucky for her, she has volunteers that want to help her out--oh, joy!
I haven't mentioned Tash very much, except he's a great father--wasn't looking for love, but it found him anyway. I usually do prefer reads that have more to the romantic journey, and making both mains stand out, so would've liked more on him, and them together.
The writing style infused with all the witticisms had me snort laughing often no matter the scenario, always visible in my mind too.
There are definite serious and troubling aspects here also, some concerning sweet Sadie that will make you just want to cuddle and protect her forever, which is kind of what happened with the whole Somerset family when they got to meet Sadie. She was written beautifully as a precocious 7 year old, with that wonderful wisdom beyond her years and a cutie patootie to boot, she added so much goodness.
Women's fiction/romance, stand alone, easy read. Lighter side.
Received an ARC thru NetGalley and am giving my honest opinions voluntarily.

4.6 stars
This is a truly heartfelt and warm story that gives one all the good feels. Autumn and her sister Ember are continuing to run the animal rescue farm founded by their grandparents and will do whatever it takes to succeed and take care of those animals in need. Along with the farm, Autumn is a designer and her sister is a builder. Together they make a perfect team. Tash is a single father who has recently moved back to his hometown and enlists the help of the sisters to remodel his home and make it special for his daughter as she is coping with the loss of her mother. Autumn had a crush on Tash when they were back in high school. Will business and pleasure mix? As a secondary romance, Ember finds herself getting involved with Mike a ranch hand. This is another wonderful character driven storyline from Ms. Foster that will have you wanting more. I volunteered to read an advance copy provided by Netgalley.

Insert a slew of **EEKS* and *SQUEELS* here. Lori is back with a new and just in time for summer and a little escape from the real-life social distancing world.

Autumn and Ember Somerset are running an animal rescue farm that their grandparents had started. Insert Tash Ducker. He needs consultant help with a house he wants to improve so his daughter can feel safe, secure, and happy after her mother had passed away. Ember is a designer. She needs to help build the sanctuary for the animals but has agreed to help Tash with the housing plans.

Autumn loves romance novels but living out the fairytale isn't something she believes in, at the moment, after she was jilted at the alter. Ember, too, as suffered her heartaches, but shields her romantic woes. Each sister is destined to find what they are seeking but it is the journey that they embark upon that makes this novel sometimes laugh out loud, heartwarming and a delicious read.

Lori is one of the greats and this one proves why she has stays at the top! Five out of five stars, for sure!

I very much enjoyed this book. I’m not usually a reader of women’s fiction, which this book is categorized as. I’m more of a romance fan, because I always want a happy ending. So while there are definite elements in this story which reflect the women’s fiction genre, I’d argue that it’s equally a romance, but with two couples instead of just one.
I thought all the characters were wonderfully written. Ms. Foster has a great handle on developing intriguing personalities, some this reader loved and some she tolerated. While Tracy and Patricia are annoying, I didn’t hate either one. Even Autumn’s ex, who’s a skunk, inspired very little feeling in me. He’s was more of an annoyance...more like a fly to be snatched away. I liked both male leads, Mike more than Tash (that name bugs me) honestly. Sadie was an adorable spitfire. She’s my favorite character in the book and her happiness was my greatest concern.
So, here my issue with the story. Autumn and Ember are great. I thought their sisterly relationship was powerful and real. While sisters can be very different..in looks, temperament, personality...I really do not like the portrayal of body size used as often as it is. I find it infuriating that the “small” sister is the ideal body size. The “big-boned” one...I HATE that phrase...is the self conscious one. Can we break that mold please. While I do not want any female...fictional or real...to have body image problems, not every thin woman is happy with their body, nor is every larger woman unhappy with theirs.
That’s my beef with the book. I did like it, I read it all in one sitting and was very satisfied with the growth in characters and the ending. I’m always going to be a Lori Foster fan, and whatever issues I have with a storyline aren’t going to change that. Because of that, my rating gained a half star to make this a 4 star instead of a 3.5.

I loved everything about this book - the farm setting, the animals and the fun & flirty romances. The Somerset Girls is a wonderful story filled with love, laughter, friendship and family. I hope there will be more books set in Sunset, Kentucky!

I really enjoyed this book. It was the perfect book for the times we are in now. I was able to lose myself in Somerset Sister and the Animal Farm Rescue they run together. Autumn and Ember are sisters who both have issues with a past. I love how much they both support each other.
Autumn works herself to the point of exhaustion and Ember puts on a happy face and pretends all is well. The family bond is wonderful. Not only do they run a rescue farm because of their love for animals, both have full time jobs. Autumn is an interior designer and Ember builds homes. They are work together beautiful.
I love the romance that befalls each of them. An old crush returns for Autumn and Ember's is right there on the farm. Each sister had to overcome a past fear and hurts before they could move on. This story tugged at my heart and I loved the sweet little girl, Sadie, in the story. A wonderful HEA for the perfect summer read.

I have always enjoyed Lori Foster’s books as she always has a knack for great chemistry between her couples. The Somerset girls is about two sisters Autumn and Ember who are trying to find a way to deal with recent hurts, while running an animal rescue shelter on the family farm. When a former crush come back to town, Ember forces Autumn to meet up with Tash, and discovers he has a young daughter who has been hurt herself. Ember, known as a party girl, and free spirit, recently had a tragedy dealt to her. Mike works for the sisters on their farm, is interested in Ember, but he also has been hurt in the past; can the sisters find their happy forever after? The Somerset girls was a wonderful feel good romance to read, and what I needed to read. This book wasn’t just about hot guys and sizzling scenes. It was about relationships. Family relationships; between sisters, parents and children, even friends. One of the things I love about Lori’s book is how she also lends a voice to those who don’t have one...animals. They are often secondary characters in her books, those who are abused, or forgotten. Especially now, they should not be forgotten.

3 stars. This book was just ok to me. I love the basis of the storyline...two sisters who are completely different, two couples with very different relationships , dad raising his little girl with no mom in the picture and all on an animal rescue farm...but for some reason it just dragged out for me. Halfway through the book it didn’t seem to really be going anywhere. I didn’t hate it but I didn’t love it.

As an animal lover I truly enjoyed the story of the rescue the sisters run. A very heartwarming story of the love between two sisters. And even though they are each very different, the love between them was loud and clear. This is a very lighthearted read for the summer! Would make a great beach read!

Foster knows how to pull on your heart strings. She combines sister, parents, animals and romance all in one. Autumn and Ember have a close sister bond, while having different life experiences which shaped how they tackle their personal lives. Together they manage a unique animal refuge while caring for their aging parents. Autumn and Ember both find their perfect romantic match in Tash and Mike while overcoming past experiences. My favorite character was Sadie, Mike's daughter, who's simple enjoyment of everything, kept me smiling or laughing with the interaction of the saved animals. Can't wait for her to grow up and have her own book. Each relationship is relatable and at the heart of everything is family.

3.5 stars

Somerset Girls is a sweet take on two sisters discovering that second chances do exist.

I found myself liking and relating to Autumn right away, but it took a little bit for Ember to grow on me. Mike, Tash, and Sadie are key players that I found myself enjoying right along with the Somerset sisters.

This is a well written, easy read that also touches on important topics. We see self esteem and self image issues addressed in a gentle manner. The big one for me - and our characters as well - was the idea that we live up or down to the expectations set for us. This was something both Autumn and Ember struggled with and I loved what happened when they started to stray away from those ingrained ideas.

Definitely more of a “relationship” book vs what I would consider a traditional romance, Somerset Girls is something that is a great read. I found myself relating to it on multiple levels.

Lori Foster's newest release  The Somerset Girls is a feel-good story about two sisters who find their HEA afters with two hunky men.

Autumn is the older of the two sisters and she's the shy one. She was cheated on by her ex-fiance weeks before their wedding. Afterward, she swore off men.  Until Tash (I really disliked this name. I kept changing it to Dash when I was reading because Tash made me think of Trish a female name) her teenage crush comes back to town. Tash is back in town because he needs a good place to raise his 7-year-old daughter, Sadie. 

The two work closely together because he hired Autumn as their designer to fix up Sadie's bedroom and a play area in the yard. There's chemistry between them and Autumn and Sadie fall in love with each other. Autumn's not sure if Tash wants her for her or if he wants her around because she gets along so well with his daughter. Tash has the same confusion, wondering if Autumn sees him as a man or just Sadie's dad.

Ember the younger of the two sisters works with Autumn on some of her designs as a carpenter. They live side by side on their family's farm. They have their own careers plus they work to rescue animals and run their livestock farm. Ember has chemistry with their handyman and friend, Mike. Mike is like a brother to Autumn but his no brother to Ember. Their sexual tension is off the charts. 

All for characters are dealing with past issues from cheating exes, to divorce and losing a baby. The ground is a great cast of characters and I really enjoyed seeing them all come together as a close family unit. The Somerset Girls feels like a standalone (as it's marketed to be) since both sisters get their HEA, in the end, I don't see Ember getting her own book. But I guess Lori Foster could revisit the town of Sunset, Kentucky with more stories or other townspeople. 

If you're looking for a fun, enjoyable read with a touch of heat then look for farther, The Somerset Girls will check off all the boxes for romance readers who love smalltown sets with charming characters.

What a charming read! This is the story of two sisters working together on their rescue farm and design company as they deal with family, life and business. Autumn and Ember have always been opposites, Ember a free spirit and Autumn the more stable and they have their battles but love is stronger. After being jilted by a cheating fiancee Autumn has found that ice cream is better than men and she has no want to find one either, fine with staying home with her animals. Ember on the other hand has always been the party girl, hiding her true feeling behind her fun party girl exterior and her bold personality. But life never follows a straight path, enters Tash, the older boy Autumn had a crush on in high school, he's back in town single with his precocious little girl that'll steal you're heart. Ember has demons of her own, one being a sexy farm hand she had sizzling hot chemistry that she is trying to fight. This book is fill with wonderful characters, family love and heat, just makes a great read.

This was a charming, well-written book. Autumn and Ember run an animal-rescue farm they inherited from their grandparents, and always have each other's backs, although their personalities are very different. Autumn's high school crush comes back to town, bringing up old feelings, and Autumn turns to Ember. Ember hides her hurt under a free-spirited facade, but starts to wonder if she might be missing out. All of the characters in this book were so fun to get to know, and the story moved quickly. I didn't want to put it down. I enjoyed this book and would read other books by this author.

I love a story with a single parent especially when the child is as awesome as Sadie! This book has 2 love stories in one and I highly enjoyed reading them!

This story introduces you to sisters Autumn and Ember. Autumn is a designer and Ember is a builder and they work together designing rooms/playgrounds/etc. They also share a duplex on an animal rescue farm their grandparents started. Enter Tash Ducker, a blast from the sisters’ high school past, who needs someone to put together a room for his daughter after the death of her mother. Sparks fly between Autumn and Tash pretty quickly (and there is some lingering teenage drama there as well).
Meanwhile, Ember, has her own romance building with its own complications. Add into the mix an ever-expanding host of animals on the farm and special animal story time and you are transported away from daily life for a few hundred pages. I love the way the romance is woven into this book–even though its clear that the story is about Autumn and Ember. A great story that will have you chuckling and thinking about wanting to visit that rescue farm!

This fun romance by Author Lori Foster was such an enjoyable read! The Somerset Girls is a lighter romance that covers the “single-dad” as well as “second-chance” and “enemies-to-lovers” type tropes.

Sisters Autumn and Ember Somerset are animal rescuers, wonderful daughters, and both…single. When Autumn’s high school crush, Tash Ducker, returns to town, meddling sister Ember sets up a job for Autumn to remodel his house…and his adorable daughter’s room.

I loved the way Lori Foster wrote this story! She wrote it multi POV…You get the story from Autumn, Ember, Tash, as well as Mike (the animal farm keeper)’s POV and I really enjoy that! The storyline flows so well, she writes such a descriptive scene that you can envision the setting, there is humor, an adorable (and healing) little girl, heat, and a slow burning romance. I love the gradual change of the sister’s personalities as they realized things in their lives. This book gave me an overall heartwarming and happy feeling. I really enjoyed The Somerset Girls and would recommend it! 4.5 stars from me (rounding to 5 because it was more than a 4 IMO).

The Somerset Girls is an amazing read. I couldn't put it down. I love the dynamics between the sisters Autumn and Ember. They have this amazing bond that has them knowing when the other needs them. They are strong ladies that you will adore. You can't help but fall in love with this book. There is just that little something special about it that you will love. I love Autumn's passion for design and animals. She is amazing with Tash's daughter Sadie. You will fall for Sadie for the start and giggle along with her. Tash is an amazing father and finally sees what no one really sees in Autumn. I love them together. I love that we get multiple romances going on in The Somerset Girls. Lets not forget Ember. She is stronger then you think and but puts up a front. You feel her pain when her story comes to more light. I love the banter between Ember and Mike. He is perfect for her once he understands more about her. You will love each couple and love this family bond. The Somerset Girls is a perfect rainy day read. It is effortless and sweet and completely will fill your heart so much.

Autumn is content spending her time working, taking care of her family, the animals her and her sister rescue, and indulging in ice cream instead of men. Then her high school crush, Tash, comes back to town with his adorable daughter and everything goes topsy-turvy. The Somerset Girls, from the characters to the story, is fun, full of emotion, and you won't want to stop reading. Another great read from Lori Foster.