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The Holiday Trap by Roan Parrish

6 reviews

sage_alexandra's review

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

if you liked 2006's "The Holiday," you'll like this even more because its queeeeeeeer!!! I came for the lesbians and stayed for the gays. Truman's love of bullet journaling might be the kick I need to get back into it myself. And Greta makes me mourn even harder for good lighting and temperatures for plants.

we love Ash so much in this household 

*would've rated higher except i got the ick from Carys later on in the book. I honestly thought maybe that relationship wouldn't get a happily ever after. Ash and Truman's story gets 5 stars though!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Dementia, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Minor: Emotional abuse, Antisemitism, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

sexual content specifics:

public, but relatively hidden, sex between Carys and Greta. they are also much more sexually active than Truman and Ash

megelizabeth's review

emotional funny hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

This is a difficult one to settle my feelings on as it's a dual perspective story where I absolutely loved one of the perspectives (Truman's) but really didn't connect with the other (Greta's). It's a shame as I liked Greta as a character and her storyline had a lot of potential, but I think what let it down for me is that I really didn't click with her love interest and then their romance took up so much of Greta's story that I just ended up finding myself always wanting to be back in Truman's point of view. I did, though, LOVE Truman's romance and character growth and overall story and so that did balance out some of my irritation at a lot of what was going on with Greta. There's also a lot of great talk in here about self-worth, growing up, and navigating difficult family relationships and I did appreciate how these themes are explored with both characters. I would, then, say that I liked this book overall, but I just would've got so much more out of it had Greta's storyline been done differently :(

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Antisemitism

k1313's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia and Alcohol

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Sexual content

Minor: Homophobia and Antisemitism

ellalucys's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Dementia

Minor: Homophobia and Antisemitism

annahamburger's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Dementia, Grief, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Child abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Vomit, and Antisemitism

emily_mh's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This book was not a great execution of what it set out to do, which was to be a Christmas/holiday romance. In terms of holidayness, the holidays of Christmas and Channukah barely feature in the story to the point where I think this would have been better off as a regular romance. However, the romance was also lacking. With Greta’s story, her relationship with Carys felt more like a formative one you have in your 20s that doesn’t have an HEA because you’re there to change each other not be each other’s forevers. I didn’t like this, and I didn’t like that Carys seemed not that into Greta. And I’m not talking about Carys’ direct communication, which I liked, but about the fact that she seemed so dispassionate about the whole relationship. Truman’s romance was definitely my favourite of the two as it conversely felt a lot more equal in terms of love, and even just life experience. However I think Ash, like Carys, didn’t really feel like a real person, like the character wasn’t fully realised. 

The strongest part about this book and what saves its overall rating was the character development of Greta and Truman. It was so cathartic seeing them learn about boundaries, and self-love, and living a life you’re in love with, and changing their lives accordingly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Dementia, and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse, Death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Cannibalism, Abortion, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Major: toxic family Moderate: sick parent, family estrangement Minor: adoption