{"id":80921,"date":"2025-10-24T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=80921"},"modified":"2025-10-25T03:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T07:08:48","slug":"release-arc-review-booked-for-holidays-by-erin-hawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=80921","title":{"rendered":"Release & ARC Review: Booked for Holidays by Erin Hawkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Booked for the Holidays by Erin Hawkins is live!<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A spicy, brother\u2019s-best-friend, sort-of-second chance romance, this Christmas novella is a fun read.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Blurb<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Last Christmas, I gave Liam Hargrove my heart\u2026<\/p>\n

Okay, maybe not my heart. But I was ready to give him something else\u2014until he panicked and dropped me on my ass, bruising both my tailbone and my ego. Now I\u2019d like to forget the whole mortifying mess ever happened.<\/p>\n

This year, I\u2019m moving on. I\u2019ve traded my silly crush on my brother\u2019s best friend for a dream come true: opening Blush & Binding, Cedar Hollow\u2019s first romance-only bookstore. With a calendar full of holiday events, this Christmas is going to be my best one yet.<\/p>\n

Until Liam shows up.<\/p>\n

With my parents\u2019 house overflowing and the local inn booked solid, my mom oh-so-generously offers up my guest room.<\/p>\n

Now he\u2019s in my space, helping with inventory, charming my customers just by existing, and reading my annotated romance novels like they\u2019re a guidebook. He says he wants to make it up to me\u2026starting by reenacting a few of my favorite scenes.<\/p>\n

His gingerbread house building skills are impressive, so I just might let him.
\nBut this time, I\u2019m not falling so easily\u2014or at least not without a fight.<\/p>\n

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Review<\/strong><\/h4>\n

3 stars<\/b><\/p>\n

A spicy, brother\u2019s-best-friend, sort-of-second chance romance, this Christmas novella is a fun read.<\/p>\n

Last Christmas, Juniper put her heart on the line by propositioning her brother\u2019s best friend, they guy she\u2019s loved for as long as she can remember. Though he initially seemed willing, Liam turned her down and left her humiliated. A year later, and he\u2019s back in her small town for the holidays.<\/p>\n

Juniper doesn\u2019t realise yet, but Liam is back in town to make up for the biggest mistake of his life, when he rejected her the year previously. He wants to win her heart, and for some reason he feels he needs to prove himself to her before he declares himself, so he is determined to play the long game and win back her trust. And he has a battle on his hands, because Juniper has put a lot of effort into moving on. Her walls are high, and she has no intention of letting him get close again, so let the battle begin.<\/p>\n

Well, fan-fucking-tastic. The man who humiliated me last Christmas is now sleeping down the hall. And I\u2019m supposed to play nice? Pretend like nothing happened?
\nHo, ho ho, hell no. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s flirty and fun, but also kind of frustrating. The whole \u2018conflict\u2019 could have been resolved with a simple conversation, but it\u2019s drawn out, which admittedly gives us the snarky back-and-forth story, but Juniper just seems really freaking clueless when Noah is giving her smirks and little touches, teasing and flirting, and coming out with heartfelt, swoony declarations that she just seems to brush over.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came for what I left behind \u2026 you.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It takes a while for them to find their way to each other, but they get there, with some steamy moments along the way\u2026 Liam literally takes notes from Juniper\u2019s annotated romance novels so that he can make her happy in all the ways, and the dirty talking Brit absolutely delivers on her secret fantasies!<\/p>\n

It ends in a good place, but I wish we got to see less build-up and a bit more emotion in the romance. Still a good read though.<\/p>\n

3 stars.<\/p>\n

Juniper is the sister of Jasper, whose enemies-to-lovers romance is Hostile for the Holidays<\/a>. In this book we get to meet Liam’s hilarious brother, so I’m hoping we may see him next Christmas!<\/p>\n

An Advanced Reader Copy was generously provided by the author for an honest review.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Erin Hawkins Christmas novellas<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Hostile for the Holidays<\/strong> (Jasper & Stella)
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Booked for the Holidays <\/strong>(Liam & Juniper)
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About Erin<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Erin Hawkins lives in Colorado with her husband and three young children. She enjoys reading, running, spending time in the mountains, and watching reality TV.<\/p>\n

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