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Two sworn enemies, snowed in over Christmas with chemistry that will melt the ice! Nina Thompson has one Christmas wish: to avoid her brother’s obnoxiously handsome best friend, Tristan, like the plague. From the moment he humiliated her as a teenager to their escalating revenge schemes, Nina and Tristan’s relationship can only be defined as an all-out prank war! And there is yet to be a winner. But it just so happens the ghost of Christmas present has other ideas. When Tristan unexpectedly crashes her family’s Christmas, Nina’s dreams of a peaceful holiday vanish faster than Santa up a chimney. Determined to end their rivalry for good, she braces herself for one last prank-filled showdown. But when they find themselves snowed in, with no way of avoiding each other amongst the holiday festivities, they discover their heated exchanges have been masking a different kind of sizzle. Caught in a snow globe of holiday romance, they decide to let their fiery chemistry burn bright—but this is absolutely and unequivocally nothing more than a secret fling destined to melt with the snow, this is not a forever romance… This Is Not a Holiday Romance is an enemies to lovers, brother’s best friend, forced proximity rom-com perfect for fans of Sarah Adams, Abby Jimenez, and Lynn Painter.
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I really liked the premise of this book but once I got reading there were a lot of elements that I just didn’t love. Nina and Tristan are pretty awful to each other and in real life I don’t think you’d forgive some of their antics. There were also quite a few times that I had to remind myself these were adults because they acted like spoiled kids but then the next chapter everyone was a “loving family”; it didn’t work for me.
I think with some better character development this would have been a 4 star read for me.