The Christmas Clash

De: Suzanne Park

Narrado por: Jay Lai, Jennifer Sun Bell

Chloe Kwon can't stand Peter Li. It's always been that way. Their families don't get along either: their parents operate rival restaurants in the Riverwood Mall food court—Korean food for the Kwons and Chinese food for the Lis. Now it's the holiday season and Chloe's the photographer at the mall's Santa's Village, and Peter works at the virtual reality North Pole experience right across the atrium. It's all Chloe can do to avoid Peter's smug, incredibly photogenic face.

But it turns out the mall is about to be sold to a developer and demolished for condos. Eviction notices are being handed out right before Christmas. Their parents don't know what to do, and soon Chloe and Peter realize that the two of them need to join efforts to try to save the mall. Just when it seems like they can put aside their differences and work closely (very closely) together, they discover that the Kwon-Li feud goes far deeper than either of them realize...

©2022 Suzanne Park (P)2022 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Another great read from Suzanne Park

This is a wonderful addition to any family building up an API author library. The story however is relatable to any family. Sweet and touching and hilarious.

Not the Christmas read you want

#audiobookreview The Christmas Clash by Suzanne Park

🤔where did ya come from?🤷🏼‍♀️
- I received a copy of the audiobook from the publisher (Dreamscape) via NetGalley.

😍the good stuff😍
- I liked the premise of two rival families owning restaurants, even as cliché as that premise is.

🫢my complaints🤫
- The narrators were annoying, especially the one who was reading Chloe’s POV.
- Chloe had a lot of weird moments where she’d obsessively talk about herself whether it had to do with moving the plot forward or not. It felt forced.
- Peter and his weird basketball game where we got a play by play felt entirely irrelevant to the plot or the book at all 🙄
- I never understood who was actually running Santa’s village to allow teenagers to create new backdrops for their photos 🤷🏼‍♀️ That seemed really weird.
- I wanted to like this story, but none of it felt very genuine to me and it all felt sort of forced together. Some parts just felt like the author was trying to up their word count irrelevant to the actual plot. It needed some editing and rewriting in my opinion. I know it’s YA, but YA doesn’t have to come across so cheesy and fake.

☺️the tropes☺️
- Rival families
- Forbidden love
- Saving the family businesses

⚠️the warnings⚠️
- This is boring. Not the Christmas book you want to read.
- Some racism. Some is addressed and some is kind of “their my friend so it’s okay” which I didn’t like.

rating: ⭐️⭐️.5