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The Holiday Mix-Up
by Ginny Baird
Clearly, my 2024 reading isn't off to a great start. Rating: 2.5 ⭐, rounded down to 2. I thought about giving it 3 stars, but I couldn't in good conscious recommend this story to anyone, simply because of how it ended.
Mind you, the events in this book happened over the course of around 7 days, so like a week. I don't know why the author made this choice when she could have easily stretched this out to a couple weeks but, whatever. As everyone else has mentioned, this book draws heavily from "While You Were Sleeping" except sprinkle some Latino spice. Quick overview: Katie (a waitress) gets asked to be Juan's fake girlfriend for the holiday season since he hates being set-up by his tia abuela. However, similar to the movie, he gets into an accident and is put into a medically induced coma. After visiting the hospital and meeting his family, she decides to go along with it especially because she promised Juan that she wouldn't tell them they were faking dating.
Personally, the Latino representation felt performative. Except the mention of coquí, there was no Puerto Rican representation. In fact, I even believed the Martinez family were Spanish with the amount of times the author mentioned Spain
Mind you, the events in this book happened over the course of around 7 days, so like a week. I don't know why the author made this choice when she could have easily stretched this out to a couple weeks but, whatever. As everyone else has mentioned, this book draws heavily from "While You Were Sleeping" except sprinkle some Latino spice. Quick overview: Katie (a waitress) gets asked to be Juan's fake girlfriend for the holiday season since he hates being set-up by his tia abuela. However, similar to the movie, he gets into an accident and is put into a medically induced coma. After visiting the hospital and meeting his family, she decides to go along with it especially because she promised Juan that she wouldn't tell them they were faking dating.
Personally, the Latino representation felt performative. Except the mention of coquí, there was no Puerto Rican representation. In fact, I even believed the Martinez family were Spanish with the amount of times the author mentioned Spain