[Book Review] City Kitty And Country Mouse By Alyssa Linn Palmer & Nature’s Flavors Organic Blackberry Flavored Coffee Beans

Title: City Kitty And Country Mouse
Series: Standalone
Author: Alyssa Linn Palmer
Publication date: February 25th 2020
Page Count: 235 pages
Age Rating: Adult (explicit sexual scenes, language)
How I got my hot little hands on it: Received a copy to review
Publisher’s page: City Kitty And Country Mouse

Kitty Kerr is a high-flying lawyer when her career plans are derailed by the luscious blackberries from Lucy Shen’s Country Mouse Farms. Kitty can’t get enough of the fruit, or of Lucy. Suddenly, she’s wanting things she never dared to want—Lucy, and the life on the farm. But how will being an artisan cook/farmer fit with her legal ambitions and city habits?

Between her beautiful farm and her sculpture, Lucy’s life is set. Falling for a big city lawyer is not part of the plan. Even as Kitty helps make her dreams of spotlighting her farm’s produce in restaurants a reality, Lucy’s terrified that she and the farm aren’t enough to keep Kitty interested in love and the simpler things in life.

Pulled in two different directions, will the city kitty and country mouse be able to make it work?

My Review

City Kitty And Country Mouse is a sweet, organic, farm-to-table foodie romance between Kitty, a city lawyer, and Lucy, an organic farmer, who aren’t actually as different as they think.

I wouldn’t say City Kitty And Country Mouse is an opposites attract love story. While Kitty is from the city and has a high powered job, the minute she steps on Lucy’s farm, she feels at home and her heart recognizes that these people, this place, and this food is where she wants to be and what she wants to be doing. The rest of the book is just her head catching up.

Things move at a lightning pace once Kitty visits Lucy at her farm for the first time. The two quickly go from acquaintances to lovers, have their first overnight sleepover, and decide to open a pop-up restaurant together. It all seems kind of fast, but I guess when you know, you know, you know?

I really enjoyed this book. Yes, Kitty and Lucy’s relationship seemed to develop fast, but it felt organic and not forced and it worked. The descriptions of dishes were really appetizing and simple enough that I kept thinking I wanted to try my hand at making them (and we know I’m pretty much a simple 5-ingredients or less cook). I would definitely pick up books by this author again.

It’s over a punnet of blackberries at a farmer’s market that Kitty and Lucy catch each other’s attention – and while picking blackberries together on Lucy’s farm that things start to really heat up. In honor of sweet summer blackberries being pretty much the catalyst for the whole romance between Kitty and Lucy, and because blackberries are delicious, I’m recommending Nature’s Flavors Organic Blackberry Flavored Coffee Beans which have a great subtle blackberry flavor made from real organic blackberries (I think Lucy would approve).