ROMANCE

The Holiday Honeymoon Switch

Putnam. Oct. 2024. 352p. ISBN 9780593716281. pap. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
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McKay (a.k.a. Marissa Stapley, author of Lucky) offers dual love stories as well as a tribute to ride-or-die friendships. Holly Beech and Ivy Casey met in college and immediately bonded over their tepid attitudes toward Christmas. They’re still best friends eight years later, as Holly is about to marry her college boyfriend. When she’s dumped the night before her wedding, the last thing she’s thinking about is her nonrefundable Christmas honeymoon trip to Hawai‘i. Holly just wants to be somewhere with zero reminders of what she’s lost. Ivy has booked a remote, off-grid cabin in the Hudson Valley for the same time as her annual holiday retreat, but she doesn’t want to leave Holly alone. When Holly suggests they switch vacation plans, Ivy reluctantly agrees. It will give Holly the space to grieve, and Ivy will have verdant landscapes to paint. Unbeknownst to both, their vacations will also give them romance, a sense of belonging, and the possibility of new beginnings. While the focus is on Holly’s and Ivy’s separate romances, there are plenty of lovable secondary characters to round out the cast.
VERDICT A delightful addition to the holiday romance subgenre.
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