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The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️.5

A Princess Switch type Christmas romcom, where twin sisters Charlie and Cass swap lives for a few days to escape the chaos in their own lives. Of course, both the sisters find new love interests and chaos ensues.
One thing I liked was that it WASN’T that easy for the two to swap lives. There were obstacles after obstacles and they had to be really quick on their feet to convince people they were each other.
I loved the cozy, Christmassy vibes with all the yummy desserts and vibes in Starlight Peak.
I wasn’t really convinced by the romances because both were super insta romance, but I did ADORE the sisterly bond and the small Christmas town stuff a lot.
It’s becoming a tradition for me, to close out the year with a Christmas romance and I can’t wait to see which one I end 2022 with.

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31 Dec 21
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Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

This atmospheric, spooky gothic romance would’ve been perfect for my HalloweenReads, but I got it from the library too late.
Centering around Andromeda, a debtera (exorcist) seeking a patron and Magnus Rochester, the handsome, eccentric heir who has been afflicted by the Evil Eye, this book is about a lot more than what meets the eye.
While the romance between Andi and Magnus did border on insta love, they had plenty of chemistry between them to make it believable.
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30 Dec 21
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The Island of Missing Trees by Eli’s Shafak. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

So many 5 star reads in the latter half of the year. I really loved this touching, moving tale about forbidden love, grief, the violence inflected on and by humans, and trees.
Weaving in and out of timelines, the book tells the forbidden love story of Kostos (a Greek Cypriot) and Defne (a Turkish Crypriot) as they fall in love in 1974, when the island of Cyprus is rife with tension and violence. Their love story is witnessed by a fig tree
in the Happy Fig Tavern. I love how gently Shafik handled the Turkish-Greek conflict in the book. Neither is good, neither is bad and she focuses on the harm the everlasting war had on ALL the people on the island.
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28 Dec 21
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The Neighbor’s Secret by L. Alison Heller.
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Set in the idyllic Cottonwood Estates neighborhood, this book is about a group of suburban moms, their kids and all the secrets brewing in their lives.
It’s a perfect fit for fans of Big Little Lies and Little Fires Everywhere. I love stories like this, in seemingly perfect neighborhood as these women mix and mingle while something simmers under the surface, bubbling until it reaches a boiling point. For fans of such
books, this is a perfect fit. I totally enjoyed it and found it unputtdownable.
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28 Dec 21
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Dune by Frank Herbert
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

An epic space odyssey that influenced the science fiction genre for decades to come.

I love how vivid and real the world felt, the themes of climate change, fanaticism, good vs evil, amongst other things.
This is the first time I read a book in which each chapter actually went and back between different characters’ POV in the same scene! It took a bit of getting used to, but I think I still really enjoyed it.

The Bene Gesserict politics was easily the most fascinating thing, &
Lady Jessica was my favorite character. The second half of the book did move at a startlingly different pace than the first half did, and that did take some getting used to, but I still was fully immersed in the epic ness of it all.
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28 Dec 21
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Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedland.
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Spanning generations, this fun, lighthearted book is about the Goldman and Weingold families, who ran the successful Catskills resort, the Golden Hotel.
But as years past and air travel picks up, the tourist traffic to the Golden winds down, and the two families gather for a week to discuss possibly selling their beloved hotel to people who want to convert it into a casino.
If you’re all about nostalgia and romanticizing your past like I am, this book is a perfect fit for you. It really takes you back to the era when the Catskills resorts thrived, when multiple families vacationed together all summer, before the era of internet.
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2 Nov 21
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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
A scintillating, riveting final spooky book for October. I absolutely loved this book, and have read nothing like it before.
Set in 1950s Mexico, the book is about Noemi, a spunky, charming young woman who receives a harrowing letter from her cousin & travels to check in on her in her husband’s spooky, gothic house. As she spends more time there, she discovers that all is not how it appears.
The book is a slowburn, simmering until it comes to a full boil. The mystery is intriguing, it’s scary and kept me at the edge of my seat the whole time. And let me tell you…the actual revelation is much scarier & creepier than anything your mind might conjure up.
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