This was the perfect holiday/winter read! Loved this light romance and can’t wait to recommend to a friend! Thanks NetGalley for letting me having an ARC!

Megan and Christian are from the same hometown but now have new lives in the city. Megan left her hometown after leaving her fiancé at the altar years ago. Christian is fine being single but he dreads going home each holiday and facing his family who wonders why he’s still alone. When Megan and Christian bump into each other at a Dublin bar, they hatch a plan to return to their hometown as a couple! They will attend their family functions pretending to be madly in love. What could go wrong?
An adorable winter read! I enjoyed the love story of Megan and Christian. They each had substance and were interesting characters. Throw in a snowed in cabin in the woods and I’m hooked.

I loved this book! I don't know what Catherine Walsh puts in these. They aren't necessarily groundbreaking or anything new but I just love the story and all the characters. I can't wait to read more by her and I hope she does writes more books on some of the side characters!

loved everything about this holiday rom-com!

the best setting: a cozy small town in ireland

the best characters: a runaway bride driven to turn her life around

the best plot: fake dating during the holidays

bonus points for dual pov and no third act break up. this book really got me into the holiday mood!

thank you to net galley for the arc!

I received this book for free for an honest review from netgalley

If your looking for a book to cuddle up on a cold winters night, this is your book. Cozy and fun.

This was an absolutely beautiful story whose characters felt real and relatable. The writing is so entrancing and by the time you realize you’re coming to the end, you want to backpedal all the way to the beginning just so you can stay in the bubble. So grateful for the opportunity to read this early! Thank you!

Ooooh we love a dual POV!!! I enjoyed this book soo much, I thought it was absolutely adorable. I’m a sucker for romance novels set in other countries, especially Ireland. If you like runaway bride tropes with a cute love story, this is for you!!

A cute winter romcom that was lighthearted, fun, and fairly low stakes. Ultimately this was super sweet, but not all that memorable. A cozy fun read that would make the perfect companion for your next snowy reading day.

Catherine Walsh never disappoints! This was another beautiful book from her. I love her writing style and the gorgeous way she weaves her Irish heritage in her books. In this book we meet Megan who to out it mildly is not interested in going home for the holidays, WeEv all been there. She has her reasons that’s for sure. Then Enters Christian who is tired of getting pitied of being single and alone. The two meet at a local pub and come up with a pact to help each other and fake date to solve each other’s dilemmas. I absolutely love books like this! Both Meg and Christian had great Chemistry, I enjoyed all the different situations and scenarios they went through to pull the wool over their families eyes and I enjoyed the background characters as well. Catherine always creates rich side characters that compliment the mains and keeps readers in stitches. I highly enjoy this one over holiday break. It was like a warm hug and I’m anxiously awaiting her next book. I will be sharing much more thoughts soon I apologize I’ve been down with a bit of a head cold. I will. be making this a selection for our book club as well. At times of uncertainty in our world we need positivity and a nice fun light read and this book is pure perfection.

I would first like to thank both the author and Netgalley, for offering me a early look at this book before publication,
I would first like to say that I really enjoyed this book, i'm a complete sucker for faking dating, small town romances and dual POV so at first I thought this book would be perfect for me and it really didn't disappoint.
This is also my first introduction into a holiday romance and i'm happy that this book was my introduction to them, and will be checking out some more when Christmas comes around again.

I enjoyed both characters Christian and Megan and really enjoyed the chemistry between them. I was a tiny bit torn on the friends to lovers trope, I'm not a fan of the trope but I pleasantly enjoyed it with this book!

If you want a quick, somewhat fast paced holiday read, I would 100% recommend this book!

I haven't read holiday romance, so it was also my first introduction to the characters of those books, Reading snowed in, I'll be checking out holiday romance, and look forward to more books that she'll be releasing in the near future!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This was the first book I've read of Walsh's and I promptly purchased the first book in the Fitzpatrick Christmas series as soon as I was done! "Snowed In" had everything I wanted in a Christmas book-Drama, humor, romance, and Ireland!

After leaving her fiancé at the alter and becoming the village outcast, Megan is finally and begrudgingly returning home for Christmas. But, then Megan runs into Christian from her home town, who is also not looking forward to returning home, still single. They decide to return together and pretend they are a couple. Hijinx ensue and the holiday season is the perfect time for a little Christmas romance. This is a must read!

This is the perfect winter romcom read. Get yourself set up with a cup of cocoa by the fire and settle in with Snowed In - you'll love the characters and really root for them to fall for each other the way you've fallen for them.

Great winter read. Loved this around Christmas time. I love this authors books. I read almost all of hers. Cute stories. Thank you NetGalley for this advanced copy of this book.

A special thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for this advance copy of Snowed In by Catherine Walsh - this one is out for purchase (and on Kindle Unlimited now!) now!

I was a huge fan of Holiday Romance last year, which follows the brother of Christian, our main character in this one. Snowed In is a standalone and you wouldn’t need to read the first to understand what was going on, but some of the first would certainly be spoiled as you know the fate of the characters. (I would argue that with contemporary romance, you kind of know the fate without reading the book most times, right?) I love Catherine Walsh’s writing, and find her character development super easy to read - this one follows Megan, a runaway bride who ends up fake dating Christian to deal with their families around the holiday - to be honest, the fake dating premise was the only reason knocking it down from a 5-star because I wasn’t really buying the reason.

Thank you again to NetGalley and the publishers for this ARC in exchange for this honest review.

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0

ADORED THIS. Catherine Walsh you killed this. Chef’s kiss.

Oh my gosh. This just solidified that Catherine Walsh will be an automatic read from now on. I loved this rom-com so much. Although it is the second in the Fitzpatrick series, you could absolutely read this as a stand-alone. The characters are well-rounded, the story is fun and I couldn’t put it down. So cute, warm, and full of little moments that made me smile. I highly recommend this if you like romantic comedies with a little spice and fun banter.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for this ARC in exchange for my honest review!

I am a Catherine Walsh forever fan, so I knew Snowed In would be 5 stars, but if I could rate this higher, I would! It more than delivered on my expectations. My only complaint is that it ended!!

Walsh’s writing is so hilarious, touching, perfectly paced and the dialogue is always so well done. I loved Megan, and Christian, and let’s be real, all the characters. I could envision this playing out in my head like a cozy, holiday rom-com, except this was better than anything playing on TV. I could gush forever.

I am rarely a rereader, but I could see myself easily picking this up again (and Holiday Romance). It could be enjoyed at anytime but I was delighted to enjoy it during the holiday season.

Thank you Bookouture for the copy through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Catherine Walsh did it again! An absolutely perfect holiday romcom. I love how well rounded and well adjusted her characters are - it's rare to have a MMC who shares his feelings in a responsible and appropriate way and I love that this book, like her others, don't contain miscommunication tropes. This book felt like a warm hug!

I loved this book so much! This is the first I have read of this author and I can't wait to read more!

Now I normally reserve holiday romances for December, but last year I was too busy to get to many of them so I decided to extend it a bit into January. Why not? I was excited to read this one, but I'll be honest when I opened up the book and saw "A completely hilarious fake dating, forced proximity romantic comedy" I almost said nevermind. I usually have a hard time with true romantic comedies (so many things are labeled that nowadays when I don't think most really are). I had just tried a different romantic comedy and stopped in the first chapter as I could tell it would not be for me. I knew the "comedy" would not be my thing and well...why read something I know I will not enjoy? But I was on a role with dnf-ing books and not being able to find something to read I thought why not one more? Clear it off the to-read list. Only I immediately loved this story! I loved Megan and could not wait to find out what was going on. Why she was a runaway bride.

And Christian? Oh, I love a guy who is smitten even if he doesn't know it yet. Right from the start you could tell he liked Megan and the whole fake dating thing just made him realize it. Plus he is just wonderful. He sees Megan and is there for her no matter what. Whatever she wants. These two were so perfect together! I did really enjoy how Megan was not sold on the fake dating at first cause you know I probably would be skeptical as well if it happened to me. But these two were everything. So fun and so great I never wanted it to end!

Thank you to the publisher for the gifted copy. This review contains some spoilers.

I started this book expecting a cozy holiday rom com akin to many of those seasonal made-for-TV Christmas movies and it delivered — with some depth! The quippy dialogue with instant chemistry between Meghan and Christian was fun and there were many very adorable moments (especially the blanket forts and movies in the cabin and later on the barn). But I loved the nuances each of the leads had — an important discussion on emotional abuse that Meghan has been working through and Christian’s uncertainties and insecurities with his professional and personal life. It made me root for them even more and their connection seemed so meaningful.

There were a few things that did take me out of the story. There were so, so many side characters that also felt so unrealistically connected. I definitely understand the purpose of the “small town” gossip mill adding to the stakes of the fake dating, but it all felt too convenient that everyone was everyone’s sibling who was connected to so-and-so, etc. And that Meghan could *accidentally* run into Isaac so many times. I loved the highlighting of different types of relationship tensions — parent-child, sibling, friends drifted apart, bringing someone new into a family, and so forth, but it was getting hard to follow. There were also so many plot points that probably could have been written in a different way to achieve same impact (eg Christian’s mysterious cabin bug that he slept through and we heard about after the fact). Additionally, I was very surprised the “snowed in” portion of the book did not happen until 3/4 of the way through the book and was a brief (though important). I actually liked how the plot progressed and don’t mind it went this way but it felt misleading to be the book title.

All and all, a holiday romance I would recommend to others!