Audiobook Review: In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

One Christmas wish, two brothers, and a lifetime of hope are on the line for hapless Maelyn Jones in In a Holidaze, the quintessential holiday romantic novel by Christina Lauren, the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners..
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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.
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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.
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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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Jam-packed with yuletide cheer, an unforgettable cast of characters, and Christina Lauren’s trademark hijinks, this swoon-worthy romantic read will make you believe in the power of wishes and the magic of the holidays.
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In a Holidaze

Groundhog Christmas Week!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Narration: 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧
Romance: 💙💚🖤💜❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌎🌍🌏🌎🌍
Character development: 😳🤬😏🙃🥰

The heroine: Maelyn Jones (a.k.a. Noodle) – she is at her favorite place in the whole world. A cabin in the Mountains owned by her parents friends where her parents and all their college friends have gathered for Christmas her whole life. She has grown up loving this cabin and the friends and family gatherings ever year.

The Hero(s): Andrew Hollis (a.k.a. Mandrew) – The eldest son of two of Mae’s parents college friends. He lives for music and works in the music industry. He has always treated Mae as a kid sister and mentions at one point that everyone expected her and his younger brother Theo since Theo and Mae are the same age.

The Story: On December 26, after a week at the cabin, Mae and her family find out that the cabin is going to be sold, so this will be their last year. On the drive to the airport, they are in a car accident and Mae loses consciousness only to wake up on the plane to Park City on December 20th. She is living the week at the cabin over again.

“I laugh because this feels genuinely impossible. How does one move on from a man so kind of heart and fine of ass?”

Mae made a huge mistake the first time around so is determined not to make that same mistake. Everything seems to be going fine, she is even able to convince her parents Australian friend Benny who is like her favorite uncle, what is happening to her. When she takes a header down some stairs and wakes up on the plane again.

I don’t want to give away everything that happens in this extremely cute and funny version of Groundhog day, but I really enjoyed this story. I have been watching a lot of Hallmark Christmas movies over the past few days and this would make a great one. Of course the Groundhog day trope has been done before, but so have a lot of the Christmas movies. I can’t tell you how many I have seen where the heroine falls for a Prince.

The narration on this book was great. It was done by Patti Muran. I usually love dual narration with a male and female narrator, but this one was good, she has snark and great comic timing and even does Benny’s Australian accent pretty well. This is definitely a good book to do via audio.