Holiday Romance by Catherine Walsh
Molly and Andrew are just trying to get home to Ireland for the holidays, when a freak snowstorm grounds their flight.
Nothing romantic has ever happened between them: they’re friends and that’s all. But once a year, for the last ten years, Molly has spent seven hours and fifteen minutes sitting next to Andrew on the last flight before Christmas from Chicago to Dublin, drinking terrible airplane wine and catching up on each other’s lives. In spite of all the ways the two friends are different, it’s the holiday tradition neither of them has ever wanted to give up.
Molly isn’t that bothered by Christmas, but—in yet another way they’re total opposites—Andrew is a full-on fanatic for the festive season and she knows how much getting back to Ireland means to him. So, instead of doing the sane thing and just celebrating the holidays together in America, she does the stupid thing. The irrational thing. She vows to get him home. And in time for his mam’s famous Christmas dinner.
The clock is ticking. But Molly always has a plan. And—as long as the highly-specific combination of taxis, planes, boats, and trains all run on time—it can’t possibly go wrong.
What she doesn’t know is that, as the snow falls over the city and over the heads of two friends who are sure they’re not meant to be together, the universe might just have a plan of its own…
A totally gorgeous and escapist friends-to-lovers festive romance with a swoon-worthy hero. Perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella, Mhairi Macfarlane, and Christina Lauren.
Review: Once a year for the last decade, Molly and Andrew have spent seven hours next to each other on the flight home to Dublin from Chicago to visit their families for Christmas. They're just friends and love their annual chance to catch up. But this year, things feel a little different and over the course of a few days of tense travel trying to make it home in time for Christmas, the two slowly move from friends to maybe something more.
This was absolutely delightful. A perfectly satisfying, escapist and festive read with a friends-to-lovers plotline. This had great banter and felt truly believable and heartwarming at the same time. Molly and Andrew are so endearing and likable and as a reader you can't help but root for them the whole time. I particularly loved getting to know their families and seeing their holiday celebrations and the way the author subtly made this a "holiday romance" as the title suggests, without feeling forced.
I guess the only thing that was missing from this for me was how their tradition of flying together got started! Initially, they are seated together on the flight coincidentally and know each other because he was dating her roommate but how did they move from that to making it an annual tradition? But otherwise, this was such a cute read that felt realistic, relatable, but yet gave the reader the happy ending we needed.
Stars: 4
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