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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"TakeTake Me Home<\/strong> by Melanie Sweeney<\/a>
Published by<\/strong> GP Putnam’s Sons<\/a> on July 9, 2024
Genres:<\/strong> Contemporary Romance<\/a>, Romance<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 368
Format:<\/strong> eARC<\/a>
Source:<\/strong> Publisher (Mail)<\/a>
Add to Goodreads<\/a>
Buy on Amazon<\/a>
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Road Trip Rules: No bad music. No detours. No falling in love.<\/b><\/p>\n

Hazel Elliot never looks back. If a door closes, she burns the whole house down. But when she\u2019s invited to her father’s Christmas Eve wedding, she\u2019s forced to return to Lockett Prairie, Texas, for the first time since she fled for college.<\/p>\n

Ash Campbell has been in love with Hazel since she dated his best friend in high school. Now, Ash and Hazel\u2019s relationship is limited to playful feuding over the best chair in their favorite coffee shop, but his attraction to the prickly girl from home has only grown stronger.<\/p>\n

When Ash\u2019s car breaks down just as family obligations and the holidays pull him home, only one person can get him there on time. But Hazel has a condition: Everything between them must stay the same. And if it doesn\u2019t? She gets the coffee shop. So the frenemies endure bad music, inclement weather, and B&Bs with only one bed\u2014and that\u2019s just the drive across Texas. When they finally arrive, Hazel must face that, in a small town, there\u2019s nowhere to run . . . and maybe, for the first time, she’s found a reason to stay.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This, my friends, is a secret Christmas book! You would have no idea looking at the cover or reading the blurb, but at the heart of it all is two college students trying to get home to their families for Christmas. I love road trip books, so I was excited about that but when I started reading and realized it\u2019s a Christmas book I was even more excited! Why was this not marketed as a Christmas read? And why was it given one of the ugliest covers I\u2019ve seen in a long time? The green chair they\u2019re both sitting in makes sense after reading the book (this chair is very important to the two of them), but I am not a fan of the dirty pink color and Ash\u2019s shirt in a color that couldn\u2019t clash more if it tried. Anyway, moving on!<\/p>\n

Fair warning, if you\u2019re not a fan of the miscommunication trope do not pick this one up. It\u2019s raining cats and dogs and miscommunication all over the place in this book, between Ash and Hazel as well as between them and their respective families. The third act break-up is also pretty infuriating, and really showcases Hazel\u2019s immaturity. I struggled with her for much of the book, but at this point I just wanted to shake her. She\u2019s a very bad communicator, yet she\u2019s a PhD candidate for psychology and she cannot see what she\u2019s doing. Ash is wonderful and so sweet, and he deserves better. lol. He does fall first, which I love. I also liked the dual perspective. I really enjoyed getting into both characters\u2019 heads so I could better understand them. There\u2019s also a deeper thread of family struggles throughout, which was well done and easy to empathize with. The romance itself left a lot to be desired, but I did enjoy the Christmas road trip vibes and Ash\u2019s cinnamon roll personality.\u00a0Overall, this was a fun, but ultimately \u201cjust ok\u201d,\u00a0 debut.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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