{"id":77444,"date":"2024-12-23T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=77444"},"modified":"2024-12-21T07:37:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T12:37:07","slug":"arc-review-a-very-snowed-in-new-year-a-very-holiday-5-by-kayley-loring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=77444","title":{"rendered":"Review: A Very Snowed In New Year (A Very Holiday, #5)\u00a0by Kayley Loring"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blurb<\/b><\/h4>\n

What\u2019s the actual last thing you\u2019d ever want your celebrity crush to see you doing when you finally come face-to-excruciatingly-handsome-face with him? Singing and dancing around by yourself to \u201cDreams\u201d by The Cranberries while drinking straight from a bottle of champagne? While you\u2019re wearing some wedding gown you just found in a closet? Yeah. Me too.<\/p>\n

And yet, here we are.
\nAt a mountain cabin I was sent to by the awfully pretty actress\/pretty awful human I work for to get things ready for\u00a0her<\/i>\u00a0romantic New Year\u2019s Eve getaway with him.
\nThat\u2019s not even the worst thing about the way I meet Holden Archer.
\nThe actress has been paying me to have textual relations with him, pretending to be her\u2014and she doesn\u2019t even like him!<\/p>\n

Is it terrible that a snowstorm prevents us from leaving and the actress from getting here?
\nNeither Holden nor I think so.
\nBecause it turns out\u00a0our<\/i>\u00a0connection goes back a lot further than those texts.
\nAnd just like in all my favorite romantic comedies, it\u2019s what got us here that is the most amazing part of the story.<\/i><\/p>\n

Will my lack of experience cause me to freeze up when we go from inbox to in person?
\nOr will a dreamy movie star melt my inhibitions and make all my secret New Year wishes come true?<\/p>\n

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Review<\/b><\/h4>\n

4.5 stars!<\/b><\/p>\n

Book #5 in the Very Holiday<\/i> series, and it\u2019s Piper\u2019s turn for her HEA! This is a gorgeously fun story! A complex but very clever missed connection, celebrity romance that had me giggling and falling in love, and it\u2019s such a great read.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve watched Piper grow up in the earlier books of the series (though you can read this as a standalone) when she was a young girl in love with love, butts, and all things romance. As a 22 year old, not much has changed, except she hasn\u2019t had the chance to really explore love for herself due to her high expectations and the overprotective men in her life. But she remains delightfully optimistic and dreams of a romcom-worthy romance of her very own.<\/p>\n

Holden Archer is Piper\u2019s celebrity crush. He\u2019s an actor in a wildly successful fantasy movie series, is hot Hollywood property, and he\u2019s an absolute sweetheart. When he\u2019s pretty much forced into a relationship set-up with an actress, he ends up texting with Piper instead when she\u2019s hired by the actress to flirt with him on her behalf, setting up a funny and banter-filled dynamic. And it tuns out that Piper and Holden have a previous connection as well, which adds an additional twist making the whole situation a hilariously complicated but comedic series of mistaken identities and missed opportunities.<\/p>\n

It all comes to a head when Piper and Holden end up getting trapped in a remote cabin during a snowstorm. Truths come out, feelings are revealed, and Piper finally gets the epic romance movie moment she\u2019s always dreamed of. It\u2019s sweet, sexy, and swoonily romantic, and I loved watching these two find their way to each other in such an honest, open, and heartfelt way.<\/p>\n

I am falling in love, hard and fast, with Piper Puckett.
\nI don\u2019t know when it started\u2014I just hope it never ends.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love these characters so much. The chemistry is so good, and the banter is top-notch. The dynamics that Piper and Holden have with their friends and family are fabulously entertaining, and as I have come to appreciate from Kayley Loring, the character interactions are a real highlight. Shout out to Holden\u2019s awesome younger sister, who is so much fun, and we get to see glimpses of the boys from the previous books in this series, which I loved.<\/p>\n

This is such a fun read. Sweet and funny, with a love story worthy of our romantic young heroine. I loved this one.<\/p>\n

4.5 stars.<\/p>\n

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A Very Holiday<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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A Very Bossy Christmas (#1)<\/strong> (Declan & Maddie)
\nReview<\/a>
\nBuy: \u00a0Amazon<\/a> |\u00a0Paperback<\/a><\/p>\n

A Very Friendly Valentines Day (#2)<\/strong> (Eddie & Birdie)
\nReview<\/a>
\nBuy: \u00a0Amazon\u00a0<\/a> |\u00a0 Paperback<\/a><\/p>\n

A Very Vegas St Patrick’s Day (#3)<\/strong> (Nolan & Cora) (co-written with Connor Crais)
\nReview<\/a>
\nBuy:\u00a0 Amazon<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 Paperback<\/a><\/p>\n

A Very Grumpy Father’s Day (#3.5)<\/strong> (Declan & Maddie)
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\nBuy:\u00a0 Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

A Very No Strings Halloween (#4)<\/strong> (Billy & Donna) (co-written with Connor Crais)
\nReview<\/a>
\nBuy:\u00a0 Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

A Very Snowed In New Year (#5)<\/strong> (Holden & Piper)
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About Kayley Loring<\/b><\/h4>\n

\"\"Before writing steamy romantic comedy novels, Kayley Loring got a BFA in creative writing from a Canadian university and had a fifteen-year career as a screenwriter in Los Angeles (under a different name). She mostly wrote PG-13 family comedies that studios would pay her lots of money for and then never make into movies. In 2017 she decided to move to the Pacific Northwest and write about all the fun stuff that she wasn\u2019t allowed to write about in those PG-13 scripts. Now she\u2019s breathing cleaner air and writing dirtier words. It\u2019s an adjustment she\u2019s happily getting used to.<\/p>\n

Rest assured that her funny sexy sweet romances have no cheating or cliffhangers, and always have HEAs!<\/p>\n

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