The Holiday Trap

By: Roan Parrish

Narrated by: Natalie Duke, Pete Cross, Hillary Huber

Greta Russakoff loves her tight-knit family and tiny Maine hometown, but they can't seem to understand what it's like to be a lesbian living in such a small world. When an act of familial meddling goes way too far, she realizes just how desperately she needs space to figure out who she is.

Truman Belvedere's heart is crushed when he learns that his boyfriend has a secret life, including a husband and daughter. Reeling, all he wants is a place to lick his wounds far far away from Louisiana.

Enter a mutual friend with a life-altering idea: swap homes for the holidays. For one perfect month, Greta and Truman will have a chance to experience a whole new world...and maybe fall in love with the partner of their dreams. But all holidays must come to an end, and eventually these two transplants will have to decide whether the love (and found family) they each discovered so far from home is worth fighting for.

©2022 Roan Parrish (P)2022 Dreamscape Media, LLC

A holiday delight

This was fun to listen to as I was making all my holiday preparations. Entertaining and heartwarming.

Not bad but not my favorite

The performance was good by all narrators. The story was okay but not one of my favorites. It felt slow at times and I don’t feel like I ever fully got the chance to get to know Greta or Truman. The writing style was cute with witty dialogue, though the descriptions were a bit too long for my taste overall. Not a bad story just wish I had connected more with the characters. The ending was satisfying as far as the main relationships in the book, but I felt the subplots were rushed to unsatisfying endings.

This was a great first for me

I usually listen to only WLW audiobooks, this one has a MLM as well, I didn’t think I will be happy about it, but it was a good book and I am glad I listened to it.
It is a great holiday book, yes I know the holidays ar3e far away yet, but who cares, I love reading about the holidays.

Great story

I was a bit hesitant to get this audio book but I’m so glad I did! Loved the parallel stories and the great lessons in them. The narrators were great and this will definitely go into my re-listen category.

Amusing lite read

This was mostly cute. I got tired of the whining of the main female protagonist. She is supposed to be getting mature and drawing boundaries but she does it in a really immature dramatic fashion. I guess that's how people are in their early 20s. The storyline with the dudes was more enjoyable. They both had some amusing moments, especially in the beginning. The friend Ramona is annoying after a while with her "wisdom". I want to send her to therapy first. I want to send all of them to therapy. The main message to me here was thank god I'm not in my 20s. Narrators were good, the dudes narrator was great.