The story starts with Emma, finding out her grandparents have passed and she’s headed to the reading of the will. It’s clear things are going her way as she accidentally goes into the men’s room, has some car trouble, and doesn’t know anyone in town. The real kicker is that her grandparents gave her the farm.

Since she’s from Atlanta, Emma has no idea how to run a farm and it’s even worse since she’s paired up with Dan, the farm’s manager. Emma immediately wants to sell and goes back to Atlanta only for things to get worse, resulting in her coming back to live on the farm. From there, it’s a true fish out of water story.

Aside from figuring out how to live on the farm and care for it, she’s learning more about living in a small town and the impact her grandparents had on the town. Eventually, we do find out the impact and it might not be what you think. Regardless once Emma gets on board, there’s an extra layer of story you won’t be expecting.

Love in Bloom focuses a lot on Emma’s character growth, but watching her fall for Dan is amazing. The two form a tentative friendship and then their attraction starts to grow. In a way, it feels like these two were meant to be together. From their very first meeting, it was written in the stars, not to be corny about it. Lucy Eden didn’t skimp on the steamy scenes either if you’re in the market for that.

If you’re sensitive to strained family relationships, you might want to steer clear of this as Emma has a strained relationship with her mother. Things do get better but it can be hard to read at times. Dan also has some past trauma related to his career path which is part of the conflict between these two. Regardless, Love in Bloom is fresh as a daisy and has me even more excited for what’s to come from Lucy Eden.

Cute story, I enjoyed reading it and the audiobook was done really well too. I enjoyed the drama between Teddy and Emmaline but definitely loved the budding romance between her and Dan much better!

3.5⭐️

Thank you to NetGalley, Forever, Hachette Audio & Lucy Eden for the chance to read and listen to this book in exchange for my honest review.

I am a sucker for any story where life goes absolutely crazy and the character gets a whole new perspective and simplifies life. Add in a steamy, intense romance and saving the town- this book checks many boxes!

While it wasn't a focal point- this story is a great reminder of how the political system is controlled and manipulated on more levels than we know. Teddy is just ew.

The town/farm's conflict really was a compelling debacle. It really made you think about big picture. And while most stories about small knit towns lend themselves to their camaraderie- the conflict really brought everyone together in a very believable way. Truly, everyone's livelihood and health was at risk and dependent on the decisions made.

Regarding narration: This was incredibly well done. The personalities and flare of each character shined through in the intonation that the narrator used.

I wanted to like this one more than I did. I thought the premise/setting was unique, especially the setting but overall, was bored by the instalove between the two main characters.

This book is the “should be adapted into a movie” trope, and if that’s not a thing it should be. Emmaline has several bad things happen to her within a short amount of time, and she runs to the farm left to her by her grandparents. There she find Danesh, a trusted friend of her grandparents. Dan is immediately protective and caring toward Emma, and that will always earn points in my book! As the time passes, Emma and Dan share laughs, hot moments, secrets, and chess games. Emma and Dan are both runners who have to find reasons to stay.
Set between small town Georgia and Atlanta, with southern phrases throughout, I felt right at home reading Love In Bloom!
If you love a small town romance, with secrets shared by the community, this is a perfect book!

I LOVED this book. While the cover makes it seem like this is a cute and fluffy romance, it is, but it is also so much more than that! Our FMC Emma loses her grandparents which results in her inheriting a farm in rural Georgia. This also coincides with her life and livelihood blowing up right in front of her eyes. This books will pull at your heart strings as it explores love, parental relationships, discovering your roots, and rebuilding the life that you actually want. Every chapter of this book is filled with a new element or twist to the story and moves at a good pace. Highly recommend for the people that love a romance read.

4.5 / 5 stars!
This book was very cute and I am so glad I kept reading. I struggled to get started because I am a mood reader and early on I felt like I needed something else…. BUT that something else was apparently Dan. He Was funny, loving, and playful from the start. I loved the way he adored and supported her. I was also appreciative of the way Emma stood her ground with her ex when she finally realized she wasn’t happy or being treated right. It was a great story about finding yourself, your passion, and the people who you want to be your family.

Thank you Forever and NetGalley for this ARC!

This book was a very cute small town romance! I thought the pacing of the book was really good and nothing moved too fast. I liked both Emma and Dan. They were both interesting characters, Emma being a former PR girl turn "farmer" and Dan who lived on the farm and helped her grandparents with their business. Their relationship developed well as a friends to lovers situations. They didn't get off on the right foot initially but they never really had a true disdain from my reading experience. Their romance was cute. I also thought the plot of the farm that was inherited being a medical marijuana farm was definitely interesting. I think it made sense to the town and how the herb can be helpful with healing, but of course people have their reservations towards it. I think the issue they faced felt realistic from the farm to their own bump in the road. I was happy with the conclusion of the book too. Their roadblock with the farm didn't feel rushed or forced which I appreciated it. It was wrapped up nicely. Overall, this is a cute and cozy romance.

I met Lucy Eden during SLC and she was so nice and I had to give her book a try. This was a fun small town romance that has hallmark feel.

Emma inherits her grandparent's farm who she lost touch with and meets the farm manager at one of the funniest meet cute. The town and Dan are both stand-off to Emma the city girl.

I really enjoy the small town/found family and how everyone took care of each other. Dan and Emma's love story was a bit too quick for me, especially with Emma's situation.

Overall, a fun read and I look forward to reading Eden's backlist.

Thank you @readforeverpub for a copy of the book.

Small town romcom with secrets and drama, loved it. City girl who inherits a farm and has absolutely no idea about farms or coffee. Had a bit of “The Simple Life” vibe with a heart of gold. Emma’s growth throughout the book was great to read.

I was so intrigued by this premise (city girl inherits her grandparents’ farm only to discover it’s an illegal medical marijuana business) and I love a “city person inherits a (building/business/etc) and has to live in a small town to decide what to do with it” kind of plot.

It was a cute romcom, though the romance was a little flat for me. They’re into each other right away and pretty much are cute and together most of the book. The plot was a bit meandering for me, there was a lot of her adapting to country life and planning a local festival that didn’t really move forward the romance or the weed business plots and just felt like filler.

Overall it was cute if you’re looking for a low-angst romcom!

This was a cute small town romance. The book starts with Emma begrudgingly visiting a farm her estranged grandparents left her. When she goes to the will reading, so many things go wrong and she can’t wait to get back to the big city. However, upon arriving back to the city she finds herself jobless and boyfriendless in no time. At a loss for the first time in her life she runs back to the small town farm to try to lick her wounds and make sense of her life. While at the farm reevaluating her life choices, she meets some of the most interesting people and realizes not all is as it seems, and that maybe what she’s been working for her whole life is not what she really wants. I appreciated the moral dilemma in this story, and how that added an interesting element to this small town romance. A fun quick read with interesting characters, and an interesting twist. I received an ARC, and this is my honest review.

BIPOC Steamy Romance featuring a PR rep who's out of her element after inheriting her grandparents' farm and it's secrets and then meeting and falling for her horticulturist farm manager.

3/5 stars: This is Eden's stand-alone which is a BIPOC Steamy Romance that follows an Atlanta PR rep who's world turns upside down after inheriting her grandparents' farm. When she loses a job she realizes she hates and breaks up with her long-time boyfriend she hasn't been in love with for a long time, she decides to move to the family farm and finds herself living with the farm's British manager who's also a talented horticulturist and creator of hybrid roses. But more changes are in store, when she learns the farm's actually a thriving medical marijuana business that's essential to the whole town. So when it's threatened by outside powers, she'll need a plan, plenty of help from friends and family and she'll need to embrace the love growing between her and handsome Brit she's fallen in love with if their going to have a chance to save the farm. Heartfelt and humorous, Eden's writing and character work are great; the characters are well-rounded, complex and yet remain likable. Emma great and I really like her; she takes all the changes in her life with aplomb and when challenges arise confronts them and tackles them with gusto. Dan's also a dream and I really like seeing him and Emma fall in love and get their HEA. Both are dealing with complicated histories and I appreciated how Eden handled them. The romance is top notch with plenty of swoony banter and the OPS sex scenes are incredibly steamy and very hot. While there are plenty of funny and lighthearted moments, Eden does takes on some very sensitive subjects; so take care and check the CWs.

I received this eARC thanks to NetGalley and Forever (Grand Central Publishing) | Forever in exchange for an honest review. Publishing dates are subject to change.

I thought this was super cute! Nice book to read for autumn! If you love small town romance, with a bit of spice with diverse characters, this is the book for you! For sure

Small Town, Farm, Fish out of Water, this book has it all. I really really enjoyed this one! I’m a sucker for a good small town romance, and this was exactly that. I loved that it took common romance book tropes and moulded them into something new that was just as good and just as exciting!

"'Okay, so we're both running away,' I conceded. 'So what does that make us? Rebels? Outlaws?'
'Human,' Dan answered, 'Just two humans trying to figure things out.'"

Thank you to NetGalley and Forever (Grand Central Publishing) for the eARC.

This story follows Emma, whose life goes from near-perfect to a disaster in just under 24 hours. Not only does she get broken up with, she also gets fired and inherits a farm, which she has no idea what to do with it. Fleeing from the wreckage of her life, she finds solace in her new farm. However, she gets there to learn that the locals don't like outsiders, and the farm manager, Dan, doubts her every move. When she learns that there's something she doesn't know about the farm- a secret that the whole town is in on- she is forced to make a decision. Will she sell the farm and retreat to her old life, or will she stay and save the farm and the town's livelihood?

"You make me feel things that I thought had died years ago."

I enjoyed this book. I thought the romance was pretty well written and I enjoyed the outside plot that was occurring alongside the romance. Overall, I wished the characters would have been even more fleshed out because they just didn't feel real to me. They had thought-out backstories, but for some reason it just lacked a connection for me.

I enjoyed this book a lot! It combined classic rom-com tropes, such as a small town and a fish out of water, with really unique elements like a botanist male main character and a townwide secret. It was very satisfying to see Emma gain confidence and come into her own as a member of the town and capable farm owner. The miscommunication at times made me feel frustrated and like the characters were immature, but overall I felt that this was a very fun and unique story!

I will pick up any romance with a farm involved, and Love in Bloom did not disappoint! It took me a moment to resonate with our fmc, but once she won me over, this took off. This is the most Stars Hollow/Gilmore Girls town I've read in any book, and I can absolutely promise that you will not see the plot twist with the farm coming!

This book is so darn cute!

I loved the setting of the farm and the fish out of water story. The characters were entertaining and kept me interested. There’s plenty of fun adventures and hijinks that made me laugh and smile.

I didn’t want to put this book down!

A story that was more than just a love story! Emmaline aka Emma was a big city PR exec handling celebrities problems with ease when her grandparents disappeared and left her their farm. Danesha aka Dan was her grandparents right hand man that she knew nothing about. Emma’s parents hadn’t spoken to her grandparents in over 20 years and that meant she hadn’t either. Emma and Dan meeting at the will reading was nothing short of fate and their rude beginning changed into love over time. Emma learns what her grandparents had been doing and why they were treasured by this small town. I really enjoyed this story and it may have been a 4.5 minus the use of one word during a spicy scene. I just couldn’t let that go!