ARC received for an honest review

This is book 4 in the Briar Creek series and while it could be read as a stand alone, why would you want to miss the sweetness that is Briar Creek?

What would you do when the guy you have been crushing on since high school kisses you then leaves? And what would you do if he came back to town?

This is the dilemma facing Briar Creek florist Ivy.

Brett is back in town and making Ivy all a-flutter. But as she tries to get over her lifelong crush, he is not helping the matter by being all wonderful.

We have all been there. Had that unrequited love, that crush that never goes away. I felt for Ivy over and over as the story progressed. All her friends are partnering off and the one man she wants she can't have.

Or can she.

Brett, Brett, Brett. At times I wanted to love him, at times I wanted to slap some sense into him. And hope to god that he will see what is right in front of him.

This book also dealt with a rather common health issue, but it did so in such a way that it did not make light of the illness or the affects it can have on people.

I adored that we got more of the characters from the previous books, how their lives are completely intertwined (and at times it feels a little bit incestuous how close they all are). It wouldn't be a Briar Creek book without them all.

This book made me laugh, made me smile, made me frown. I got made, I got frustrated, but most of all I felt hope. Hope that Ivy and Brett would finally get their act together.

You pretty much know what you are going to get with an Olivia Miles book, and she certainly did not disappoint with Love Blooms.

Now I am impatiently waiting for the final book in the series.

Please don't make me wait too long!