Live ,Ranch, Love by Emma Lucy is a cute, cowboy romance of grumpy /sunshine actual end up being the cute couple that we love in cowboy/small town romance.

The dynamic between the two main characters took a bit to come around to but after that, it seemed like the chemistry was there and so was the banter.

Self identity and self worth was one topic that was very much discussed and how to be authentic to yourself.

Recommend this book for your next small town/ cowboy romance.

Thank you to NetGalley, Avon and Harper Voyager, and Emma Lucy for the opportunity to read and review Live, Ranch, Love with my honest thoughts and opinions.

As a reader firmly in her cowgirl era, this romance was right up my alley. A British wellness influencer's great aunt passed away and left her ranch in Colorado to her niece. The ranch manager is a super grump who wants nothing to do with her, but everything to do with continuing to run the ranch. Together, they find a way to compromise with both of their passions. Including not hating each other, but growing instead to be besties who fall in love and become each other's biggest supporters.

In this first book of the Willow Ridge series, we have the following tropes:
Grumpy x Sunshine
Enemies x Lovers
Small Town
Cowboy (Ranch Manager) x Wellness Influencer
Slow Burn
Forced Proximity

I encourage other readers to give this debut novel a shot - a rough and tough cowboy with a heart of gold awaits!

This was a sweet and spicy romance! I also found this novel to be super cute. I loved the small town vibes, the cowboy male main character and the Colorado setting! It is lighthearted, funny, emotional and hopeful. The dual point of views of this book gave me more insight into the main characters and what they were thinking and how they felt. This is a medium paced read filled with lovable characters. It did take me a while to get into this book and I did want more banter between the main characters. I love the enemies to lovers trope, it’s one of my favorites! However, it didn’t take long before these two became instant lovers. Overall, I give this book a 3 out of 5 stars!

“Live, Ranch, Love” is about a city girl named Rory and a cowboy named Wyatt. Rory ends up inheriting her great aunt’s ranch in Colorado. Rory ends up discovering that her boyfriend betrayed her, so she decides to go to the ranch and fix it all up, then sell it. However, she runs into a grumpy country boy, who doesn’t like outsiders on his land. These two opposites come up with a deal and begin to start falling for one another.

This book is perfect for fans of small town romances, who enjoy a dual POV! Content warnings include explicit sexual content, emotional burnout and infidelity (not between the main characters).

Thank you to NetGalley, author Emma Lucy and Avon and Harper Voyager for this digital ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.

This book is out now, but the new copy will be available on September 30, 2025!

Live Ranch Love starts with wellness influencer Rory Jones inheriting her aunt's Ranch in Colorado. When she arrives, she meets Wyatt Hensley, who helped run the Ranch for Aunt Grace. Of course, they immediately clash as Rory initially wants to sell the Ranch. However, they come up with the idea to turn the Ranch into a wellness retreat and are forced to work together to make it a reality. The chemistry between Rory and Wyatt is established with the classic grumpy/sunshine dynamic. And, of course, that chemistry eventually translates to plenty of spice.
I enjoyed reading about Rory and Wyatt, but Rory felt a little hard to relate to sometimes. Maybe I need a little more positivity in my life, but some of her choices were hard to wrap my mind around. Yes, this is a romance book and things are going to be dramatic for the sake of the plot, but some of it felt unrealistic.

YEEHAW!! This was a fun country romance and I am so so excited to rave about it to all my country loving book friends

This was a very sweet book. As an American reader there were a couple words that threw me but not enough to get stuck on them, knowing the author is from Europe. I really hope there is a book 2, there are quite a few characters I'd like to learn more about.

I really enjoyed this book. I mean if there’s a ranch or cowboys you can always count me in.

Rory is a wellness influencer who is has to go to the US from England to take over or sell her aunt’s ranch. I really liked Rory. She came off super positive in front of everyone else, however, she would let her sadness take over behind closed doors. I loved when she decided to let her followers know what was really going on with her and her ex-boyfriend. I love how she took the idea of turning the ranch into a wellness retreat and completely made it her own.

Wyatt was as grumpy as they come. He did not like Rory and her positive personality what-so-ever. I felt like he really judged her in the beginning, but slowly started to realize that she wasn’t always so happy and positive. I love how he was willing to help Rory right away. I know he was getting something out of it as well, but he didn’t even hesitate to help.

I really loved these two together. They definitely had chemistry, but they were both scared of where their relationship would go. Both, Rory and Wyatt, have been hurt in the past so it was tough for them really trust the other person.

The narrators, Charlie Albers and Alexander Cendese also did a wonderful job! I loved them as Wyatt and Rory.

Overall, I really enjoyed this small town, slow burn with plenty of spice! I thought it was cute and I would recommend it!

Thank you Emma Lucy, HarperAudio Adult and NetGalley for the ALC for an honest review.

I thought Live Ranch Love was cute. We have a fitness/wellness influencer who has inherited her aunts ranch and at the same time found out her boyfriend cheated on her. She goes to the ranch intending to sell but then drives to team up with the Grumpy head ranch hand to turn it into a wellness retreat instead.
This was described as enemies-to-lovers. I get where it was coming from but it wasn’t that heavy in that aspect in my opinion. They clashed because he just wants the ranch to be as it is and not to sell. He is a I did find they tropes and how they played out to be typical to the genre but I liked that it was that way. The book was exactly what I wanted it to be. I see that the second book is also being published and I am excited about that because I was curious if Cherry was going to get a book!
Thank you to Avon for the complimentary copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This audiobook threw me off. I did not like the British accent! Cowboy romances aren’t supposed to have British accents! The narrative moved too fast, it was insta lovey. They committed too fast, too soon. I also didn’t like how both of their ex’s appeared in the book. It just got messy. I’d say if you’re going to read this book do kindle or physical, don’t do the audiobook.

Who knew that crying in front of your rival would make them instantly fall in love and want to fix whatever caused the pain for you... LOL - Guess that's all it took for this FIONNNEEE cowboy to fall for Aurora.

・❥・ Grumpy/Sunshine •ᴗ•
・❥・ Small Town Romance
・❥・ Slow Burn
・❥・ Tried to be enemies to lovers (not at all), but more like... a bump in the road before it became insta-love
・❥・ Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️-- Light Bondage, Dirty Talk
・❥・ Cowboy x Wellness Influencer

Seriously such an absolute delight! It was the perfect palette cleanse between all the high-fantasy books I was reading. I'm obsessed with Wyatt, such a grumpy man trying to fight the attraction he had to Aurora from the first encounter, psh, yeah right dude!

Please tell me you are making Duke's, <I> I'm in love with my best friend's baby sister," </I>next because I CANNOT WAIT!

₊˚ෆ Thank you NetGalley and HarperAudio for the Arc! ₊˚ෆ

I was not a fan of this book (Live, Ranch, Love) by Emma Lucy. I felt that the plot line and the influencer & ranch hand dynamic was unbelievable.

If you are a fan of elsie silver or paisley hope, this is definitely the book for you. There is just something so binge-able about this book that made it so hard to put done. It is also the perfect length, enough that you don’t feel that the romance is not insta-love, but also doesn’t drag on. I understand the emotions from both of the characters in the beginning of the story, where they are “enemies” in the sense that he though she was coming to basically made him jobless and she was completely unaware on why he was being so rude to her. I am glad the author chose to not keep that going for the majority of the book and we sat the two MC’s realize their wrongs and start working together. Overall I loved the book, and there was such good 🌶️ I am so excited to continue to read more from this author, it seem like she set this series to have 4-5 books!

2.75⭐️ I’m so sorry to rate this book so low but it just wasn’t for me. It was very surface level and I hated the complete 180 that Wyatt did. I know that it was supposed to be enemies to lovers but it was more like “annoyed by you but now all of the sudden I’m instantly in love with you” I think there is definitely an audience for this book but it just didn’t click with me!

For a debut novel, this was great!

Aurora's great aunt passsed away and she inherited a ranch in Colorado. She flew in and locked horns with the head rancher, Wyatt, who's afraid she's gonna sell the ranch and he's gonna be out of job. Good thing, they became business partners as they turn the ranch into a wellness retreat place.

I love the first half of the book, I flew through it. I read a lot of small town ranch vibes, so the premise of this book was unique and interesting enough, I read it when on its release date. I really devoured the book in a few hours and it was very fast-paced and their banter was really good.
However, when I reached around 70% of the book, I got bored because they kinda got together but not, so I lost interest.

I skipped the spicy chapters which kudos to the author, she mentioned it in the first part of the book. The last 20% of the book got so complicated and chaotic, it feels like the author did it to add some plot and spice which seemed a little bit trying too hard.

Overall, I still enjoyed the book and I can't wait to read the rest of the series! I love the side characters and hopefully, we get to see them in the next.

Thank you to NetGalley, Avon, and Harper Voyager for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. 

This is a cute book to cuddle up with for a quick read. It wasn't too heavy, and both Aurora and Wyatt are very likable characters. There was a nice balance of spice and plot, which I absolutely adore in books. As an enemies-to-lovers trope, the banter was present; however, the tension and conflict between the two characters seemed to lack depth, and it also felt somewhat forced. In all, this was a fun book to read after anything heavy. 

Read if you like: 
- Grumpyxsunshine
- Small town
- Cowboy Romance
- Dual POV
- Enemies to lovers.

I was underwhelmed unfortunately, it was just a little boring and predictable . No chemistry ,no tension. The third act was a little strange, there were so cute parts but I did not love this. So sorry

This book had a lot of potential, but it just didn't hit the mark. I really tried to get into this one, but I couldn't. The pacing felt off. Like it was either dragging on, or it felt like it was rushing. The two didn’t seem to have much chemistry, and their connection felt a bit forced. In the end, it all felt a little underwhelming. I was bored honestly...

I’m not gonna lie, this wasn’t my favorite. It kind of put me in a reading slump. It is RARE that a book will take me 5 days to finish but this one didn’t hold my attention. I was thrown off with a European accent for a cowboy romance but I looked past it for the plot… but the first 60% of the book it felt like there was hardly anything happening. The last 20% of the book really saved this book for me and I enjoyed how it ended but a miscommunication trope is not the best. Overall… could be good for others, but probably not something I’d pick up again.

Received as an ARC.

🩷 Cowboy
🩷 Grumpy x Sunshine
🩷 Slow burn
🩷 Forced proximity
🩷 Small town vibes

Live, Ranch, Love was a solid 4 ⭐️ read for me. Was it the best book I’ve ever read? No. But was it bad? Not even close.

Emma gives us a story that’s charming, heartfelt, and dusted with just the right amount of cowboy drama to keep you engaged. The romance builds nicely (slow burn fans, rejoice), the ranch setting adds a nice cozy vibe, and the characters had just enough grit to keep things interesting……even when I occasionally wanted to knock their stubborn heads together.

Sure, the plot doesn’t reinvent the wheel, and of course there were a few “yep, saw that coming” moments, but sometimes you want the comfort of a classic trope done well opposed to something that’s all encompassing and blows your mind. And that’s exactly what this book delivers: a feel good, boots on the ground love story that makes you want to move to the middle of nowhere and fall for someone who knows how to ride a horse and fix a fence. Am I right or am I right? 😉

Would I recommend it? Absolutely. Just don’t expect literary fireworks. Expect a warm, steady flame and a happy sigh at the end.

I really tried to get into this one, but it just didn’t click for me. The pacing felt off, with some scenes dragging and others moving too quickly, so it was hard to stay engaged. The two didn’t seem to have much chemistry, and their connection felt a bit forced. In the end, it all felt a little underwhelming and I found myself losing interest before it was over.