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A review by cleolindbooks
The Holiday Trap by Roan Parrish
Did not finish book. Stopped at 50%.
Thank you to NetGalley for the audiobook!
Minor spoilers but most are very small details that aren’t too crucial/happen very early.
Personally this wasn’t for me. I love the idea and the premise. 2 characters swap houses to get some space from their various issues. I loved seeing the different perspectives and how they each lived and changed in the others space.
The main issue I had was the two main characters, Greta and Truman, being way too similar. I am not sure if that was what the author intended but they felt like the same character with different names. Both where unable to deal with confrontations or boundaries, both where people pleasers who would give too much. Not only where their personalities so similar but their mannerisms where almost identical. Very nervous, shy, and unconfirmed. At one point they both make comments about the new introduced character possibly murdering them. It is all just too similar. There where very little differences in their key personality traits.
There where also parts that felt rushed and kinda random. <Like Greta’s love interest has a mini horse and a table made of teeth>. It is just a bit much how random and out there some of the points seem to be. At one point, the characters go from discussing very serious trauma to sex in one line that felt so forced and random. Entire mood changes in one line and it just doesn’t flow very.
I do think there where good and funny moments. I can honestly say I did laugh aloud at parts and enjoy sections. But the issues I have mentioned kept taking me out of the story. I loved the split perspective romance book and hope to see more like this but I really couldn’t get into it.
Minor spoilers but most are very small details that aren’t too crucial/happen very early.
Personally this wasn’t for me. I love the idea and the premise. 2 characters swap houses to get some space from their various issues. I loved seeing the different perspectives and how they each lived and changed in the others space.
The main issue I had was the two main characters, Greta and Truman, being way too similar. I am not sure if that was what the author intended but they felt like the same character with different names. Both where unable to deal with confrontations or boundaries, both where people pleasers who would give too much. Not only where their personalities so similar but their mannerisms where almost identical. Very nervous, shy, and unconfirmed. At one point they both make comments about the new introduced character possibly murdering them. It is all just too similar. There where very little differences in their key personality traits.
There where also parts that felt rushed and kinda random. <Like Greta’s love interest has a mini horse and a table made of teeth>. It is just a bit much how random and out there some of the points seem to be. At one point, the characters go from discussing very serious trauma to sex in one line that felt so forced and random. Entire mood changes in one line and it just doesn’t flow very.
I do think there where good and funny moments. I can honestly say I did laugh aloud at parts and enjoy sections. But the issues I have mentioned kept taking me out of the story. I loved the split perspective romance book and hope to see more like this but I really couldn’t get into it.