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In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
5.0

Loved this one! Part Groundhog Day-esque time loop story and part Hallmark Christmas movie, the main character has spent Christmas with her parents and their chosen family her entire life at one couple's cabin. Now in her mid-twenties, at the end of this year's trip the couple announces they're selling the cabin. On the way home she ends up in a car crash but wakes up on the plane going back for Christmas, the same Christmas she just lived through already. As she tries to figure out why she keeps going back, she eventually decides to live without fear and tell her friend she has feelings for him. No spoilers, but my Hallmark movie pet peeve of a happy ending without resolving the practicalities of the relationship was averted! Also, I usually can't focus on American narrators but this one was good.