In a Holidaze

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Call Number: Fiction / Lauren, Christina, Adult Book / Fiction / Romance / General / Lauren, Christina
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Lauren, Christina	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Romance / General / Lauren, Christina	4-week checkout	Due 05-18-2024

"Love Actually meets Groundhog Day in the quintessential holiday romance by the New York Times bestselling author of The Honey-Don't List"-- Provided by publisher.
Maelyn Jones is living with her parents, hates her job, and just messed up her love life. She is dreading the family's last Christmas at their Utah cabin, but one random wish and she may just get a do-over.

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Groundhogs day meets the holidays... submitted by pamhockey25 on July 29, 2021, 5:00pm What's going on? Maelyn Jones is at her favorite place with her family ... and something goes wrong. Then it's all happening again, and again, until it goes right. A fun holiday read!

Cozy Christmas Romance submitted by Meginator on August 27, 2022, 5:47pm This book has a cozy Christmas feeling to it that (mostly) overrides some of its flaws, and it ends up being a fun romance with a hint of magic and plenty of genuine warmth. The novel’s most frustrating flaw is that the (supposedly) core premise, which finds the main character caught in a time loop during her annual Christmas vacation, is abandoned too quickly and feels more like an out-of-place novelty than a real motivation for her necessary emotional growth; like her, I kept waiting for the next iteration, which never arrives. The romance, too, suffers somewhat from the proximity of a potential complication that also eventually comes to very little in the end. Even after I was over halfway into the book, I expected to read a different story altogether, one with more emotional nuance and one that made the most of the implications on the story’s margins. Nonetheless, the story has a gentleness to it that is inherently comforting as it grapples with the importance of both tradition and change, and the ways in which they can ultimately reach a satisfying balance. This novel may not make much of its time-loop idea, but it still feels perfectly suited to the cold nights of mid-December and the holiday season’s conflicting feelings of familiarity and new horizons ahead. Christina Lauren captures that feeling and wraps it up with a neat little bow that almost (but not quite) papers over the novel’s failure to live up to the expectations it sets for readers in its opening quarter.