4.5 SMOOCHES!
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SYNOPSIS:
Nothing says Merry Christmas like fake fiancés, family pressure, and accidentally falling for your ex’s brother.
Nolan never met a spotlight he didn’t like. As a major league baseball player with a filthy mouth, an ego the size of the North Pole, and zero interest in behaving, he’s perfectly happy breezing into Christmas in Kringletown like the charming disaster everyone expects him to be.
Taran, on the other hand, has made an art form out of keeping the peace. She’s polished, careful, and so committed to making everyone else happy that she’s somehow agreed to a fake wedding with her ex just to keep her family’s holiday from imploding.
There’s only one problem: the ex in question is Nolan’s brother, and Nolan sees right through her. He knows Taran deserves better than pretending her way through life.
And he’d really like “better” to be him.
Now Taran is juggling family expectations, holiday chaos, and a man who is far too cocky, far too funny, and far too determined to bulldoze every wall she’s ever built.
But with Christmas closing in, secrets snowballing, and one very fake engagement threatening to blow up in spectacular fashion, this holiday season is about to get messy. And someone’s sure to end up on the naughty list.
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REVIEW:
As a long-time Meghan Quinn reader, I am fully aware of her love of Hallmark holiday movies. I was so excited when she started writing her own holiday romcoms. Christmas Staycation is the third book in her Kringletown Christmas series of holiday romcoms, and features the much anticipated pairing of Nolan and Taran, with the little side wrinkle of Guy. I listened to the audiobook, narrated in duet by Kelsey Navarro Foster and Brandon Francis with a full cast that included JF Harding, Shane East, Vanessa Edwin and Teddy Hamilton. It was fantastic, incredible performances were delivered by everyone.
This book had me in a Christmas chokehold from the prologue and kept my AirPods in my ears the ho-ho-whole time. If National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is your vibe, Quinn’s uproariously funny, hotter-than-cocoa spin on it will kick off your holiday season. This opposites-attract, forced proximity, ex-fiancé’s brother, small-town Christmas romantic comedy was a lighthearted, laugh-out-loud love story that kept me entertained from start-to-finish. Meghan Quinn’s Christmas Staycation gets 4.5 smooches from me!
~Danielle Palumbo
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