Oh boy, if by the cover and the title you think this is a Holiday Romance, think again. We only get Christmas (BARELY) in the epilogue. Don’t be bamboozled like me.
We’ve got Avery a 25 year old baker who had been ghosted after 6 dates with the *perfect* guy. Shes been on terrible dates since, until her best friends and roommates get her in the same room as “Mr. Perfect at ghosting”this is 3 months post ghosting, after being heart broken for weeks. She LITERALLY runs out of the house when he comes and talks to her, like a child. We’ve got Liam “Mr. Perfect” we never get his age but he works in marketing. He ghosted her because his phone was stolen/he lost it in the airport on his way back home to see his grandma one last time before she passed away. He got a new phone but lost all his contacts (but he had the dating app where they met, and her email to contact her) so for three months after his grandma passed, he was mediating family shit and “he didn’t want to dump all his family baggage on her” so he didn’t reach out for 3 months til he came back.
The premise is meh, Avery is childish and immature. Liam was the only one who was semi ok but he was like overdoing it to the max. The repetition was killing me. How Avery didn’t want to end up like her aunt and uncle who stayed married but are awful to each other, constantly cheating on each other, and getting back together, even though her parents have a role model-esque marriage she chooses to use her aunt and uncle as the defining relationship.
Avery says that she cannot forgive him for ghosting her, then proceeds to forgive him in words only because she still assumes the worst at every chance. News flash Avery, if you forgive someone for ghosting you and then you immediately think they are cheating on you when you go to their house and a woman opens the door, YOU HAVEN’T ACTUALLY FORGIVEN ANYONE.
This is on me, I had the inkling to DNF really early on but I was hoping the holiday part of this romance would save it. BUT THERE WAS NONE. I should have DNFed but I didn’t for the length of this and hopes it could get better.
Overall did not have a good time, and don’t recommend.
ALSO FYI this is a closed door romance, aka nothing hotter than a make out session on page.