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4✨I struggled figuring out and keeping track of all the characters in the beginning, but got a handle on it. Even though there was a groundhog element it was one of the most realistic romances I‘ve read in a while. I love the way it ended too. Thank you for sharing @DGRachel Read for #LMPBC @Littlewolf1 and @BethM

Watching the Baby Shark movie means I can finish the tagged book! 🤣

#HappilyEverAfter #ItHadToBeYou

I‘m starting to read the tagged book to get closer to my first bingo. I‘m a bit all over the place, but hoping to get 3 bingos this month. 😍 @TheAromaofBooks

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This was wonderful. I love Christina Lauren!!
I wish I had a Benny in my life.
2.12.22

Sort of a Christmas Groundhog day - Maelyn has been in love with Andrew Hollis (a family friend's son) since she can remember. When what may be the last year the group spends together at their Christmas cabin retreat goes awry, she finds herself reliving the trip until she can figure out what and who makes her happy. And unlike Groundhog Day, she has to actually deal with the consequences because happy doesn't always mean smooth sailing...

#ItHadToBeYou Groundhog Day
I always think of the movie with Bill Murray, which makes me think of time loops, which makes me think of this book lol
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

January 21, 2022 AND JUST LIKE THAT... i finished reading the book!!! Omg It was steamy, suspenseful, and just as I had joped the ending would be. I love the characters Maelyn and Andrew (love birds). I enjoyed reading about their romantic relationship. 5/5

January 20,2022 It has 18 days since my last post. Here is what I will share with you though: I FINISHED TWELVE DATES OF CHRISTMAS AND CHRISTMAS SOPHAHOLIC. I would give Twleve Dates of Christmas a 5/5 and Christmas Shopaholic a 4/5. I am reading my last christmas themed book IN A HOLIDAZE. Not sure what rating I will give it so stay tuned...

3 STARS - I'm a little late for a Christmas-y themed story but my library copy finally came in!! This was a good, easy-going wintery read. I loved the extended family vibe and the banter with Mae and Ben but the romance was just okay and I wish the magical element was explained a bit more.

Review: https://bit.ly/InAHolidazeReview

This is my first read of Christina Lauren.This is a festive, quirky, romance that has a ‘ground hog day‘ type plot. Meaning, the days repeat themselves and one lucky person, Mae in this case, gets to be driven batty over it.

Likes~
The dialogue - hysterical!
Uncle Benny - he needs his own book
The plot - Ground hog day is hard to do

FULL REVIEW ON THE BLOG

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#bookreview #bookblogger #bookreviews #festivereads #holidaybooks

Soooo I read this in one day. It was such a cute book! I found myself rooting for the main character.

Pairing something light with my big non-fiction chunkster. 😊

#bookspinbingo

I really liked this take on the time loop trope. It was super cute for the holidays. It made me smile and was mostly just a feel good book. The relationships were all so sweet and I loved how this one included the whole family. It felt like a fun Christmas movie and I really enjoyed this book a lot. A bit predictable, but still a great book to read for the holidays!

I‘m not usually huge on romance novels but I really enjoyed this! The characters were great and I could relate a lot to Mae. Particularly the bit where she recognized how doing things for tradition sake isn‘t always the best - that it‘s great to have some spontaneity sometimes too. Such a fun, quick read

@Clwojick #mistletoemaniacs #wintergames2021

Just finished reading this one before the end of the year. Super cute and fun holiday read. Will be mailing out to @BethM on Monday.

This reminds me of a Hallmark movie. Just what I was looking for to relax after Christmas. #WinterGames2021 #TeamGameSleighers #AVeryMerryReadathon #WinterCosy #WrapItUp #AVeryMerryBingo #NewYearSpecial @StayCurious @TheSpineView @PuddleJumper @keys_on_fire @Jadams1776 @Andrew65

I‘m pretty sure I‘ve had this book on my radar since the first #WinterGames, so I‘m thrilled that I finally got the chance to read it. The first half of the book didn‘t really keep my interest, but once the whole Groundhog Day thing stopped repeating I got more into it. It definitely had some cute moments, so I‘ll give it a 3.5/5 ⭐️ #MistletoeManiacs

#WinterGames2021 #MistletoeManiacs #TeamRead #Challenge2021 #ChristmasMyWay

I may not get far tonight🥱 but, started is better than not😏

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1. Tagged
2. All the reading challenges. Our new #LitsyCrafters group. Celebrating with my family for my niece's first birthday! (I haven't seen them in a year 😭)
#Two4Tuesday

Again not much of a romance reader but I liked this one. It was a fun story & interesting twist with the Groundhog Day concept. I realized the picture I took was when I was in the middle of helping to edit my oldest child‘s college admission essays. #wintergames2021 #mistletoemaniacs 51 points for team read. #bookspin

My #jolabokaflod swap was waiting for me after my trip ☺️🎄. Thank you so much for the chocolate cherries and almonds! They look so good! So excited to read this book!

// 2021: “The only person whose expectations you have to live up to is yourself.”

This was the perfect holiday quick read! Sure there‘s some logic missing and some unexplained plot points // resolutions but it was hella cute and easy to devour! Plus some sexy scenes! And Christmas!

#weekendreads
1. NeverMoor Book 1: The trials of Morrigan Crow
2. Love actually
3. Tagged
Happy Boxing Day everyone x

🎄🎄🎄🎄 I really enjoyed this fun, romantic and time travel story. I found myself rooting for Maisie and Andrew and their whole family.

2001 pts and #buddyread for #mistletoemaniacs #wintergames2021
#WGWordSearch @Clwojick
#wrapitupreadathon
#wintercosyreadathon @PuddleJumper
#averymerryreadathon @TheSpineView
#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

The Christmas Pig is a fun children's Christmas story that asks you to suspend your disbelief and believe in the magic of the holidays for a bit.

I listened to the audiobook of In A Holidaze on my morning dog walks throughout the month of December. It's definitely cheesy but was still a feel good, festive story for the holiday season.⁣
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Keeping Christmas is an advent collection of readings that reflects on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

Tomorrow will be full of traveling between my husband‘s family & mine, so today I stayed home to bake, do laundry, and read the tagged book.

I love Christina Lauren‘s stories; they do such a good job of making you root for the characters. I want to be friends with these families and spend time in Park City with them over the holidays. ❤️🎄🎅🏻

📸 is a holiday tradition — grandma‘s banana bread for tomorrow morning.

I love everything so much! Thank you @Gissy for such an incredibly generous and thoughtful swap! Not pictured is the toddler who immediately took his book and ran into his tent to read it 😂🎄we love all of your selections and I‘m SO excited to read this book!! #jolabokaflod @MaleficentBookDragon thank you for an awesome swap!

I love a good holiday romance especially when the story is good too! I wasn‘t expecting much but fell in love quickly with the characters and story. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Using the diaper table as a wrapping station hahaha hohoho almost done wrapping everything!

This was a reread from last year and might become an annual holiday read. It's a fun, festive, feel-good romance 💖
This was my #doublespin for the month @TheAromaofBooks
#AVeryMerryBingo I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas @Jadams1776
#WinterGames #TeamGameSleighers @StayCurious #adventathon @ozma.of.oz #wintercosy @PuddleJumper #averymerryreadathon @TheSpineView #wrapitupreadathon @keys_on_fire #christmasmyway @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

This was a lot of fun - chosen family, romance, and holiday cheer. Great way to swing into some vacation days 🤗! This will be the longest break I've had in two years - I'm so ready!

I am doing something that I have not done before. I am reading a romantic holiday novel. I just came from the bookstore and this is one of the books that I purchased. Why now? Because B&N had an entire table display devoted to books like these…bright covers with snowy scenes, fireplaces, holiday glitz, lovey-dovey notions floating in the air and the word ‘December‘ in the title. I kept being pulled in that direction. So here I am for the 1st time.

This was really sweet. It's certainly the kind of book you pick up for the holidays. Time travel of a sort is difficult to get right in any story, in my opinion, but ultimately I didn't mind that here. I liked how the families of the main character and the love interest were not relegated into the background, and gave meaning to the story in some way. I wasn't too sure about the ending, but that's just me.

⭐: 4

This was somewhere between a so so and a pick. Overall I enjoyed the story but could have done without some of the sexualised bits that didn‘t add to the story. It started off as a Groundhog Day style book but then that almost seemed to be forgotten about or played about with as the book progressed. Still, however, overall an enjoyable read.

21st book finished for #WinterGames2021 #MistletoeManiacs

#ChristmasMyWay

Fun and thoughtful holiday romance about do-overs. Not my personal favorite kind of couple (friends to lovers) but a lot of cute moments.
3.5 stars

Have started the #TeamMistletoeManiacs Buddy Read. Interesting premise but not sure where it‘s heading and why we keep getting resets. Hopefully that will become clearer as I read on.n

#WinterGames2021

I have mixed feelings. The book was ok enough and it ended fairly well. I didn't have any issues with the Groundhog Day parts either. What bugged me was most of this book felt more YA than a lot of YA books. You're adults....act like it?

#TeamRead 50
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#WGWordSearch 336x10=3360
TotalPoints: 3730

#WinterGames2021 #MistletoeManiacs @Clwojick
#AVeryMerryBingo @jadams1776
#Bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
#WinterCozy @PuddleJumper

A million kudos to the authors for creating such a fun and atmospheric Christmas themed book. I really enjoyed spending time with this blended family. I wish my own holiday traditions are half as fun! So why is this a “so so” to me? Well, I feel like the authors took the easy way out when it came to the romance element. Even though I dislike love triangles I wish it had been a part of the plot. The romance story is very boring. 😕

This was a fun read! A Groundhog Day inspired Christmas romcom. My one critique would be the weak 3rd act conflict, it was underdeveloped. Otherwise a fun cast of characters and cute romance.
2 bingos! #bookspinbingo #averymerrybingo 40 pts
2500 #wgwordsearch
50 pts team buddy read
#mistletoemaniacs #wintergames2021

Mae makes a poor decision after partaking of the Christmas eggnog
#FestivePhotoChallenge Festive drink 🍻
#WinterGames #TeamGameSleighers @StayCurious

‘One Christmas wish, two brothers, and a lifetime of hope are on the line...

I wasn‘t sure if I was going to like this but I ended up really enjoying the story. This is a great holiday read and what I really needed to read right now. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#WinterGames2021 #WinterCosy #HolidayHorrors
#AVeryMerryReadathon #WrapItUpReadathon
#DashingDecember #ChristmasMyWay
#TeamRead +50 #WGWordSearch (250) +2,500

+2,551 points #MistletoeManiacs

This was a cute rom com about a young 20 something woman who asks the universe to show her what will make her happy, and thus starts a time.traveling story about a young womans journey to find love and her purpose. Funny, cute, sweet and overall really enjoyable.

#WinterGames #Christmas

5/5 ⭐️ Such a great holiday read!! I loved the romance and Christmas magic!
327 wordsearch words

#wintergames2021 #mistletoemaniacs #bookspinbingo #averymerryreadathon #wintercosy #wrapitupreadathon #adventathon #Dashingdecember

Photo challenge: A festive read. Loving this book so far! 😄 #2021WinterGames #TeamMistletoeManiacs 11 points @Clwojick

Starting the #TeamBook next.

#WinterGames2021 #WinterCosy #HolidayHorrors
#AVeryMerryReadathon #WrapItUpReadathon
#ChristmasMyWay #DashingDecember

+1 point #MistletoeManiacs

4.75🌟 Oh my, I enjoyed this fun, holiday tale. Have I read things that are more profound and unique? Yes. Did this book deliver exactly what I want in a fluffy, holiday rom-com? Also yes. And, it actually came with a few thoughtful moments to reflect on as well. I highly recommend this to readers who love 90s rom-coms and joyful holiday romance movies. This one is well written, fast-paced, a bit spicy, and just a feel-good read.

#WinterGames

Finished my first goal for the #DashingDecember readathon, which was to complete the #WinterGames #MistletoeManiacs holiday read, In a Holidaze. I loved it so much and plan on finding more by Christina Lauren. If you've read more by them, any recommendations?

Just now getting a chance to post, but I did pretty well for my #AnyWayYouReadathon goals, considering how busy I was. I almost finished In a Holidaze before the end of it.

I did finish it yesterday and what a fun book! So glad it was the #MistletoeManiacs team book.

#WinterGames