Loved itAnother one of my favorite holiday reads is In a Holidays by Christina Lauren. This one came out a few years ago. I still love it. It's very like Groundhog Day, if you will.
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In a Holidaze (2020)
Others: Mostly positive It’s the most wonderful time of the year… but not for Maelyn Jones. She’s living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made a romantic error of epic proportions. But perhaps worst of all, this is the last Christmas Mae will be at her favorite place in the world—the snowy Utah cabin where she and her family have spent every holiday since she was born, along with two other beloved families. Mentally melting down as she drives away from the cabin for the final time, Mae throws out what she thinks is a simple plea to the universe: Please. Show me what will make me happy. The next thing she knows, tires screech and metal collides, everything goes black. But when Mae gasps awake…she’s on an airplane bound for Utah, where she begins the same holiday all over again. With one hilarious disaster after another sending her back to the plane, Mae must figure out how to break free of the strange time loop—and finally get her true love under the mistletoe.
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- 9781982163631
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- 320 pages
Genres: romance
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Loved it
Loved itI also finished reading in a holiday and I really enjoyed it I thought it was it just like a really fun cute like romcom with some like little fantasy twist to it and overall I had a lot of fun reading it
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Loved itI did like in a holidays like I liked their Christmas one
Loved iti do still think it was a solid one that like i would recommend
Not a fanthis is going straight to the yikes category for me by far one of my least favorite books that i've read this year unfortunately i read it after i made my worst books of the year video so i didn't have a chance to include it in that but i wasn't expecting to dislike it this much it was so cringy