About This Book
Maelyn Jones is having the kind of Christmas that makes you want to hide under a blanket: stuck in a dead-end job, living with her parents, and fresh off a humiliating romantic mistake. The only bright spot is the annual trip to a beloved Utah cabin shared with two other families — until she learns it's the last one. In a moment of desperation, she makes a wish, and somehow gets a second chance to live it all over again. In a Holidaze is a time-loop holiday romance that uses its premise not as a gimmick but as genuine emotional architecture — a way to force one woman to finally figure out what she actually wants from her life, and who she wants beside her.
Christina Lauren (the pen name of writing duo Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings) are at their most warm and propulsive here. The prose moves quickly, with sharp comic timing and dialogue that crackles between people who've known each other their whole lives. The cabin setting does real work — it's cozy without being saccharine, nostalgic without being sentimental. What keeps the pages turning isn't the mystery of which brother Mae will choose, but the quieter question of who she's becoming underneath all the holiday chaos.
