Aurora Rey has created another exquisite contemporary romance called The Inn at Netherfield Green. I knew I wanted to read this one as soon as I saw who the author was. The cover also caught my attention. Beautiful, eye catching covers really do mean more people notice and maybe buy the book. This one definitely worked for me.
This story starts with a bang since it begins with the main character, Lauren Montgomery, being unjustly fired from her job as an advertising executive. The very same day she also finds out she has inherited an English pub and inn from her Great Uncle Albert. By the end of the week she is headed to the small village of Netherfield Green in England to see what she must do to make the place ready to put on the market and sell. Lauren hopes to make enough on the sale to start up her own advertising agency. Her plans did not include meeting Camden Crawley though. Cam has lived all her life in the village, and the Rose and Crown, the pub Lauren plans to sell has a special place in Cam’s heart. Cam resents the new owner who she feels is going to turn the pub into one of those trendy bar and inns, but she can’t seem to get Lauren out of her thoughts.
Ms. Rey has created another striking and romantic setting with the village of Netherfield Green. With her vivid descriptions of the inn, the pub, and the surrounding village, I ended up wanting to live there myself. She also did a fantastic job creating two very different characters in Lauren and Cam. The two are almost polar opposites in personality, but she made their chemistry for each other shine through in the tale. With these characters, she showed us that opposites do attract, and sometimes work out well.
This is an easy and fun read with a lot of love and a little angst. If you like a sweet romance in a charming setting with characters you might fall in love with yourself, then this is the book for you.

I received an ARC from NetGalley and Bold Strokes Books for an honest review.

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Upon discovering lesfic, I’ve come to realize that I really enjoy cozy, small town/village romances, especially if one of the main characters is an outsider coming in from a big city. I hesitated before requesting The Inn at Netherfield Green because I hadn’t read anything by Aurora Rey before and my ARC pile was growing at an alarming rate, but I’m glad I did because I really enjoyed this book!

On the same day that Lauren is wrongly fired from her advertising executive job in New York city, she learns that she inherited her great uncle’s inn. The fact that the inn is in the English countryside is actually a bonus for Lauren who needs a safe place to lick her wounds and come up with a plan. Cam Crawley, a gin distiller, runs the family business and hopes to see her new and personal brand of gin, Carriage House, take off. She has a sentimental attachment to the Rose & Crown pub and she’s not too happy when Lauren flies in from NYC with the intention of revamping the entire place.

I have to say, I didn’t like Lauren’s personality at first, and I found her pretty annoying. Maybe that’s because I’m way more like Cam, wanting things to remain as they are, content with my daily routine. I could relate to her and understand why Lauren irritated her, even scared her a little at first. Just like Cam though, I slowly warmed up to her and grew to like her a lot. I really like how Lauren actually cared about the place and its people and how open she was to Cam’s suggestions. Rey did a wonderful job of creating two very different main characters that really complemented each other.

I love a good enemies-to-lovers romance, and even though Lauren and Cam’s relationship isn’t technically that, it had its moments. There was good chemistry between two MCs that translated into the more ~intimate scenes. And though those scenes were pretty tame, the first one had a little sprinkle of domination and I was all for it.

As it now appears to be a prerequisite in lesfic, this book does indeed suffer from the 80% drama syndrome which could have been totally avoided had Cam and Lauren sat down for two minutes and have an adult conversation. Luckily, the conflict was resolved quickly and the ending was satisfying.

I recommend you give this a try if your in the mood for a predictable, but well-written, cozy romance with a likable cast of characters :)

I gotta ask though, what the hell happened to Tilly the dog? It seems the author forgot about her halfway through the book… That is not okay!

Thanks to Bold Strokes Books for providing me with a free copy of this title in exchange for an honest review

This is a fun and cute story for fans of BBC shows, You will want to hang out with the characters and visit the pub/inn in the English countryside.

Lauren Montgomery is wrongly fired for her marketing job in NYC and the same day finds out her great uncle leaves her an Inn/Pub in Netherfield Green which is in England. Down in the dumps she heads to England to take possession of the Inn. Camden Crawley runs a Gin Distillery in Netherfield. She is set in her ways and really doesn't like change. She is skeptical of the new woman running the Inn because she is afraid she is going to come in and make to many changes. Lauren's plan is to come in and revamp the Inn and Pub and sell it for some quick cash.

You can say that Lauren and Cam don't really hit it off when they first meet. Oh but there is some good chemistry there. Lauren is always nice to Cam, but Cam doesn't really like Lauren. We do find out a little more later in the story about why. The story line in this one is cute. Cam and Lauren are thrown together to make the inn better and also for Lauren to help with a newer Gin line that is Cam's baby. Even though they continue to have small disagreements they end up working well together. There are some good support characters in this one that also helps out the story. One thing that i really enjoyed was the sex scenes in this one. Rey hit them out the ball park. They were fresh and exciting.

I can say that I liked the take on this one more than Rey's last book. I was debating on a rating for this one and just will give it 4 stars.

A wonderfully sweet and romantic read. Set in a small town in England, Lauren arrives to take ownership of her great uncle's pub and inn. Her initial plan to sell it hits a snag when the actual amount of business that the inn and pub bring in just manage to pay for staff and upkeep. As a marketing guru, Lauren rolls up her sleeves and starts a plan to update the property and make it a destination for tourists.

Cam, working in her family's gin distillery, is anything but welcome to change - especially in her town or the pub. Depsite her aversion to change, she has been developing new lines of gin that would market well to a younger and less traditional clientele - but wouldn't you know, she doesn't have the foggiest idea how to market her product effectively.

There's a wonderful push and pull between the two - and rather than being antagonistic, Lauren engages Cam's assistance in her renovations and marketing ideas in trade for helping market Cam's line of gins. An inn owner looking to expand and modernize and a distiller with a new line of craft gin - a match made in heaven if you ask me. There's a phenomenal chemistry between that pretty much explodes once they get past their push and pull antagonism.

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3.5 stars. This was a lovely book. I find I like her Cape End books more. These characters felt a little forced into their respective tropes. Small town woman who doesn't like change vs corporate raider looking to change everything. There was nothing special about them beyond their "types". I think the general flow of adversaries to lovers worked well. The sex scenes felt less than compared to this author's Cape End series. Those were smoking! I am a sucker for renovations in a book so that's a big bonus to me. This author still writes a good book, so it's very recommendable.
I received an ARC of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

A nice pleasant read. This book captured the charm of an English village pub/inn and the community it would serve. I was somewhat horrified by how much a taxi from London to Derbyshire would have cost! The central couple have a sweet relationship even though one of the characters was supposed to be hard nosed corporate; showing that everyone (I hope) has a softer side, which was rather lovely. 
I learnt some things about how to distill gin (vile drink, but you never know when this knowledge might be useful). I really liked the way the story was balanced by the best friends of each character, indeed I think they may have stolen the show if this was on the big screen. I for one, would have loved to have read more about their relationship. Overall no fireworks on this story, but a nice autumn read for an ‪evening sat‬ by a warm fire.

3.5*
Not the most exciting novel I’ve read lately but still a pretty cosy read. If you’re looking for something mellow and easy for the weekend, this would be a good choice.

Lauren Montgomery is a New York advertising executive, whose life gets turned upside down in a couple of days when she loses her job (for unfair reasons) and inherits an inn and pub in a small English town. Needing a break from her life, she decides to move to England and see how to make the best of a crappy situation. Hopefully, renovating the inn, marketing it to the best of her abilities and then selling it will allow her to open her own agency. Once there, she meets Cam Crawley, a local gin distiller, who is very much opposed to anything changing. Both women find the other incredibly attractive while at the same time being convinced the other dislikes her.

I loved Lauren, especially the way she’s able to listen to other people’s opinions and point of view. I felt Cam’s family was underutilized. A family business, four sisters, three of which still live in the same village, there was potential for so much more. But I really liked what we saw of Jane and Sophie, and the best friends on each side (Charlotte and Anja) were excellent. They deserve their own spin-off, especially as they’re both poly, which could make for a great story if well-thought. And I might have to give gin another try…

I received a copy from the publisher and I am voluntarily leaving a review.

I received an ARC copy of this book from the Publisher via Netgalley and voluntarily leaving my review.

Lauren just got fire from her marketing job because she didn't give into advance of a co-worker I believe his name is Phillip and she knows he did something to get her fire. When she think everything is loss she learns that her Uncle who she didn't know very well but remembers him left her pub/inn in Merry Ole England. Lauren thinking this a sign she goes there to see if she can sell it and open up her own marketing firm.

Cam owns distillery that specialize in gin when she learns the new owner of the pub that she like to visit to coming in town and she thinks it's spells bad news.

Lauren wants to turn the inn/pub into a profit and she wants to modernize it some and she get help from the workers there when bartender Charlotte roped Cam into it she doesn't goes along with it at first until Lauren makes her a deal to help her marketing her gin that's not doing well as her other ones in exchange for her help with the inn. Cam accepted the deal but tells Lauren that she doesn't like trendy or modern to a point that it over flow the charm of this place.

As they grow closer they try to fight this attraction because Cam doesn't trust Lauren going to do the right thing and Lauren who wants to have her seem and to prove to the workers she work with before that their wrong. I like the side characters Cam sister's Charlotte I like that we also got to see how gin is made and how different flavors can go with it. I like both characters but it took me awhile to warm up to Cam because she just determine not to like Lauren all because she wanted to do this and that and I'm like it's Lauren right sometimes it's goid to change things sometimes it's not but if you don't grow with the change your just stuck.

Charming romance set in rural England with two strong leads. I enjoyed the enemies-to-lovers and the fish-out-of water tropes, plus the remodeling of the inn and pub. Not to mention that I felt the urge to buy some gin the night I started reading this! As is typical in an Aurora Rey book, the chemistry was off the charts and the love scenes were nicely varied. This is a solid, well-written romance not to be missed.

Hmmm... It had every single point of being a great book. Did it deliver? Not completely, for me. For some reason, I felt impartial to Cam, and all throughout the book I didn't warm up to her... That might be the reason why the book didn't feel as awesome as the synopsis was promising. That beinig said, I can't say anything bad about the way the book's been written. It has everything a romance book is supposed to have.

After reading the synopsis I was so looking forward to this book. Unfortunately for me the story fell flat. The character development was lacking in my opinion. As I read through this book, it felt unfinished.

I will not be sharing my opinion in a review outside of NetGalley. Thank you for the access to an early copy.

This was a week crafted and thought out story with well defined characters. The relationship was developed and adds a believable element some stories in this genre lack.

This may be my favourite book by Aurora Rey. All of my teenage romantic notions of small town life in the English countryside were fulfilled in this book.

Lauren finds out she'd inherited an Inn and a pub (in England) just hours after she's been (wrongly) fired from her job at an advertising firm in New York City. As she plots her revenge, she heads off to England to do what she can to fix up her new property and then sell it, launching her own firm and taking down the person who got her fired. She doesn't expect to fall in love with the town and the people, and one person in particular. Cam is the creator of Carriage House gin, and while she's not keen on Lauren coming in and changing her precious pub, she agrees to work with her in exchange for some marketing help for her gin. The two women grow closer as their chemistry is undeniable, but are their worlds two different for anything more to come of it?

I love that Lauren was such a likeable character. So often someone coming into a situation like she did could be mean and judgmental and it would cause tension and drama and turn me off a book. She was a fantastic character, always listening and learning and broadening her horizons. Definitely someone to aspire to, and so was Cam, with her strength and passion for her community. Both women were brilliant and intelligent in their own rights. They were super inspiring characters. Their chemistry was off the charts and their romantic journey was perfect.

There were so many moments and unique details that made me smile! I also loved all the side characters, Cam's sisters and friends, and Lauren's friend Anja - they created this whole atmosphere of love and support and strength.

I love a good project like Lauren's Inn revamp, and I might be the only one wishing for scenes from the cutting room floor that might be full of endless details on her reno.

The ending is quite possibly the most romantic EVER. I felt like I was in a 90's rom-com- I was smiling and crying like a fool because it was so perfect. Such a good feeling! I know I'll be re-reading this book over and over again. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a sweet and heartwarming book, with lots of unique flavour.

I received this ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

ARC received via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is my second book by Rey and it’s a nice sweet love story. This features MC Lauren, recently fired from her marketing job for something she didn’t do and who also happens to have just inherited an inn/bar in England. She jumps on a plane with the intention to flip the inn and use the funds to start her own marketing firm. The other MC is Cam, who runs a nearby family owned gin distillery and is a regular at the inn and doesn’t want it to change. So hometown girl vs city slicker.

Both MCs are interesting, together and apart. They have great chemistry and spend a lot of time together since Cam gets roped into helping Lauren with her plans. There are a lot of side characters (Cam has three sisters who feature, some more heavily than others and each character has a best friend). The BFFs feature the most heavily out of the side characters, and they are not poly, which you don’t see often in lesfic (the fact that they were both poly was a little much but whatever). There is also a LOT of talk about gin, which was interesting to start with, but started to bore me, I did end up skipping some scenes where this was the focus.

This also features the requisite drama at the 75% mark, but it doesn’t drag on and though the resolution was obvious from pretty much the start, I still enjoyed the HEA. I think I’ll be adding Ms Rey’s back catalogue to me TBR pile. 4 stars.

G&T Please
Lauren is in a bit of a bind. The bad news? She’s just been fired from her fancy as exc job in NYC for BS reasons. The good news? She’s just inherited a pub/inn in Merry Ole England. The bad news? It needs a lot of work if it’s going to make any money. The good news? She can trade services with a gorgeous gin distiller, marketing for Cam’s newest gin for work on the inn. The bad news? Cam hates the idea of anything modern and trendy and makes her feelings quite clear. The good news? Lauren can handle that… if only she can get a grip on her feelings and get Cam to stop being so suspicious of her.

Lauren and Cam are both strong willed women with minds of their own. They are feisty and for the most part self-assured. They complement each other’s strengths and weaknesses and make a great team. The attraction feels authentic and the story is something I could actually see happening. The characters that play these women’s best friends are just as wonderful and make the story even better. As usual for Ms Rey, this is one of these lovely, warm, tender and sweet romances that will leave you with warm fuzzies, a sense of contentment and a big smile.