Do you already miss the Christmas spirit? Read my TOP 3 holiday books to feel jolly again!
Happy New Year (sorry, I'm late) cariños. It is with a broken heart that I go back to school. I say broken heart because the winter break is over, as are over sleepless nights with friends, endless afternoons watching cult movies and as are over hangover mornings from a wild night. It's time now to start writing down our New Year's resolutions (some of them I will not accomplish, personally) and it's also time to get back to work.
Although, I believe that there's still a little time left to mourn the passing of Christmas Day. How to do that? Watch "The Holiday" or "Love Actually" for the hundredth time. Listen to "Last Christmas" or "Christmas Tree Farm" nonstop until you feel like you can survive the rest of the year. Or, if you feel very nostalgic and want something that lasts a little bit more, read some books to bring the holiday spirit back into your soul.
It's not easy to find the perfect holly-jolly-themed books to make your wish to stay in winter come true. But you're lucky because I spent some of my free time during the break to find them for you. I won't touch a Christmas novel for the next year, because I read so many just because I thought someone would feel nostalgic and would want to keep living the magic of Christmas after going back to school. Out of all the books I read, I wrote down a list of only six. Some are longer than others. Some are witty, some cute, and some a little sad. But what is Christmas if not a melting pot of emotions?
Take a look at the novels you can read if you're missing all the joy from the 25th of December.
First of all, you may have heard of this, "In a Holidaze" by Christina Lauren. Did you know that it's not one author, but two friends who put together their names? Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. They put together their minds to write down my personal favorite of the list.
On Christmas Day Maelyn Jones makes the biggest romantic mistake of her life. But somehow, she goes back in time and that error never happened. She now has the opportunity to show her actual love interest and what she feels for him, but time travel makes things a little bit complicated. But the happy ending is due, don't worry.
I honestly think this is my top #1 read of the holidays. I'll admit, when I first read "time travel" I wasn't that intrigued. But after a couple of chapters... I was hooked. That's nothing to say, Christina Lauren can make me believe in love once again.
If you're looking for a friends-to-lovers, xmas-at-the-cabin, time-travel, rom-com to cheer yourself up after the comeback to school, "In a Holidaze" is the perfect fit.
The second novel I hope you'll read is, no matter when or where, "Lovelight Farms" by B.K. Robinson.
This is the first book of the Lovelight Series and it talks about two best friends who decide to help each other during the winter holidays. Stella is the owner of a Christmas tree farm, whose sales are not going so well. So she decided to enter a contest launched by a famous influencer. What wouldn't you do for money? The problem is, she said that she runs the farm with her boyfriend... which she doesn't have. Here is where her best friend Luka enters and saves her. He never expected fake dating his best friend would've been so nice.
Said so, let me tell you why I loved it. It's witty. Funnier than many novels I read. The fact that it has a fake-dating trope might be influencing my judgment because I love this theme, but I'm sure not even you could resist hot chocolate and a handsome-freckled data analyst. if you say the opposite, I won't believe you (just kidding, your opinion matters). I see myself as the messy-optimistic Christmas Tree farm owner (except for the part where I sell trees), and that's why this book stands on the second-best step of the podium of these holidays' reads.
Stop searching for cute couples, this one is going to make you move to a small town. This slow-burn, chick-lit, friends-to-lovers is going to make your knees melt because of how much cuteness there's in it.
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The next book I'm going to talk about is War on Christmas, by Ellie Campbell, and it's for those who love a good ol' conquest game. Freya is a "witchy" theatre manager in Chicago who has financial problems. To solve them she lets her best-friend's parents rent her apartment for the holidays and she goes to spend Christmas with her family in Wisconsin. Jeremy is going back to Wisconsin as well because his stepdad died and her can now go home to his mother after he decided to strike out on his own at eighteen. Freya and Jeremy used to be best friends. Then high school happened. And they didn't see each other for almost two decades. But now... they decide that it's time to put an end to their "fight": will they remain just friends, as Jeremy wants, or will Freya seduce him into a Christmas fling? Read along and you will be surprised at how things turn out in the end.
This novel made me laugh and cry. I laughed so much because Freya and Jeremy's bickering was sillier than anything I've ever read and cried. After all, I felt like Freya, a little bit at least. But there's nothing wrong with being alone at Christmas: sometimes I want to spend big-time festivities alone just to imagine what I could be doing and pretend I was someone else. Just like a little theatre performance going on in mind. Sounds crazy, doesn't it?
Anyway, here is my favorite quote from this friends-to-enemies-to-lovers, reverse grumpy/sunshine, brother’s best friend, soul mate vibes, witchy fun and nerd culture full-length novel.
And with that, the 2024 season begins.
Goodbye, Alyeska
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