Genre ~ romance
Features ~ LBGT ~ MM ~ FF
Release date ~ September 6, 2022
POV ~ dual ~ 3rd
Page count ~ 428
Audio length ~ 12 hours 22 minutes
My rating ~ 3.85⭐
My review:
Greta’s family is trying to set her up…with a man. She’s fed up with them not understanding her lesbian life.
Truman is heartbroken when he finds out his boyfriend has been living a double life.
They have never met, but both need to get away from their life for a little while, so they swap homes for a one month vacation. Will they end up finding everything they’ve ever wanted roughly 1600 miles from the only home they’ve ever known?
Greta and Carys were fine together, but I didn’t love them. Her mother and sister, Sadie, were the worst.
Truman and Ash were totally adorable. I liked their story line more than the other. I really liked Truman’s little mystery he uncovered and how he was so excited investigating it.
Narrated by Natalie Duke, Pete Cross and Hillary Huber for 12 hours and 22 minutes, easy to follow at 2x. All narrators were lovely. As an added bonus there was dual narration within the some chapters, that doesn’t happen too often.
Overall, since it’s two romance stories in one, it was on the longer side and the pacing a bit slow. I did enjoy it for the most part though and would read this author’s work again.
*Thanks to Dreamscape Media, the author and NetGalley for the advance audiobook. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
⬇Purchase links⬇
Save on The Holiday Trap at Booksamillion.com.Book blurb:
For fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Alexis Hall comes a charming, hilarious, and heartwarming LGBTQIA+ romcom about two separate couples finding love over the holidays from acclaimed author Roan Parrish!
Greta Russakoff loves her tight-knit family and tiny Maine hometown, even if they don’t always understand what it’s like to be a lesbian living in such a small world. She desperately needs space to figure out who she is.
Truman Belvedere has just had his heart crushed into a million pieces when he learned that his boyfriend of almost a year has a secret life that includes a husband and a daughter. Reeling from this discovery, all he wants is a place to lick his wounds far, far away from New Orleans.
Enter Greta and Truman’s mutual friend, Ramona, who facilitates a month-long house swap. Over the winter holidays, each of them will have a chance to try on a new life…and maybe fall in love with the perfect partner of their dreams. But all holidays must come to an end, and eventually Greta and Truman will have to decide whether the love they each found so far from home is worth fighting for.
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Thanks for your honest thoughts. I do love the author so this is one I’d like to read.