The Holiday Ex-Files by Jennifer Peel

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“𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫?” “𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬—𝐲𝐨𝐮.”

Cami used to love Christmas. That is until she caught her husband under the tree with another woman. She’d given up on Christmas and men. That is until her ex-husband’s best friend, Noah keeps her busy with all this cropping needs.

“𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞’𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬. 𝐘𝐞𝐭 𝐡𝐞’𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐠𝐨, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐞. 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭.”

Let’s start out with what I loved about this book! Noah, he was super cute and was always there to remind Cami that he was a safe place for her. Mara, Cami’s bestfriend was hilarious. Every time her brother’s new wife pissed her off she signs her up for crazy email lists. I see the author wrote a book about her so I’m adding that to my TBR! I loved Cami’s side hustle, helping other woman by cropping their ex's out of all their photos. Hilarious!

“𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐨𝐫 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞.”

Cami, I tried to not be too hard on her but I couldn’t stand how she let her ex control her life. She didn’t do certain things or avoided certain places just because she’d once been there with her ex. Also no woman is that blind to a man in love with her. Noah was practically spelling it out for her and she never caught on. Also she has a lot of inner conversations with herself, “Miss Sparkly” that came off a bit childish to me and after a while I would just skip over those parts. Even once she realizes she likes Noah she ruins it because of her followers, she doesn’t want to lose her business or for them to think she’s an opportunist.

Overall, this wasn’t one of my favorites and I’m sad it was my last holiday read of the year. But it was still funny and cute!