Book Review: In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren

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

Christina Lauren, In a Holidaze

Review:

Normally with group reads I try really, really hard to find something to convince myself to bump up my rating for a book I didn’t enjoy, but I can’t with this one. To everyone I read this with who enjoyed this, I apologize! 

With a Groundhog Day-style plot, Maelyn finds herself reliving her annual Christmas vacation a number of times while she tries to work out her life and find happiness. 

I spent the majority of the book trying to figure out what was causing the repeated days. By the time I accepted the fact it was a question that wasn’t going to be answered, I realized that this entire plot point seemed to have been dropped. Between this, one-dimensional characters, and the strangest analogies, this just was not for me from beginning to end. 

Likes & Dislikes:

What I liked:

• I liked a couple of quotes.

What I didn’t like:

• Groundhog Day plots aren’t for me.
• I felt no connection to the characters.
• That church analogy at the end? What on earth was that? Absolutely bizarre.

Afterthoughts:

I should have DNF’d this and I really don’t know why I didn’t aside from wanting to stick it out because it was a group read.

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