This sweet romance has something for everyone and offers a grumpy- sunshine, single dad, enemies to lovers story with a twist. But this book has a lot more going for it than a romance reader's beloved tropes. The main character suffers from paralyzing social anxiety which affects her work, her nonexistent social life, her relationship with her family, and most of all her self concept. Because of her anxiety, she has no social life. Her only friend is someone else with the same issues, but she is living in another country. Although she she is frozen in real life, she is quite gregarious on the keyboard and strikes up an online friendship with another member of a fan forum. When her boss puts her on a project together with her nemesis, she is forced out of her shell. The forced proximity with the aggravating man brings out the worst in her, and she can't wait to get home and vent with her anonymous online buddy. Highbury populates the novel with interesting characters. Roxy's empathetic character has a lot of depth. Jeff's character evolves as Roxy discovers the hidden layers underneath this stuffed shirt. But the most fun character is his vivacious energetic daughter.

This story explores the mental health issue of anxiety and also how a lack of work life balance can affect one's physical and mental health. But it also has a lot of fun. The basic plot of the anonymous online romance will remind older readers of the 26 year old movie "You've Got Mail". which was an update of the classic anonymous letter writing romance plot. This plot is a classic rom-com staple and Highbury does it with fineness.

Dance with Me on New Years Eve offers one last book in Alana Highbury's fun "Love and Holidays" series. The books may share the same settings and some characters, but the story is completely standalone and readers need not read the other two first.

Holy glittery ball drops, Batman—this book had me swooning harder than a middle school crush! Dance with Me on New Year's Eve is like a Hallmark movie, but better because the characters actually feel like real people you’d want to hang out with. The love story sparkles brighter than a Times Square countdown, and the flirty banter? Chef’s kiss. If you’re not rooting for these two by the time the confetti falls, do you even have a heart?! Don’t sleep on this one—grab some cocoa and dive in. 🕺🎉💃

Thank you Net Galley and Publishers for letting me read an arc of this book in return for an honest review.

Out of the 3 books in this series, this was my favorite. They're all fast paced, a little too much, but still really cute for the holidays. Easy enough to read in a day if you need more books for a reading goal. I related to this one more with all of the social anxiety and work-life balance. Definitely hard to manage but this book did a great job dealing with those topics. No spice but still a sweet little romance book. Not really much plot and I wish it were a little more detailed, but still overall enjoyable.

I enjoyed the author's writing about the main character's mental health issues respectfully. I found the story to be thought out well, and the content was topics I like - romance, holidays, relationships. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC. An authentic story!

This was such a fun read!!
My first book from this author and I cannot wait to read more! This has everything I want in a book

This was such a cute and sweet romance that honestly gave me all the feels. I related so much to Roxy with social anxiety and finding it hard to talk to people in person. This book honestly does such a great job at explaining how hard it is to live with social anxiety and what it can do to you. It also did such a wonderful job in showing how important a healthy work life balance is and what can happen if you overwork yourself too much.
The online romance was adorable and i loved the little twist at the end. Jeff was such an interesting character and i really like how throughout the book you start to see the many layers to him as a person. I do wish we got a bit more backstory for him though because i was very curious about his parents and family life. Lila was such a fun character and definitely made me laugh with her interactions with Roxy. I really enjoyed the character development for both characters and the plot was pretty fun. I also really like this authors writing style so i will definitely be reading more from this author. I highly recommend this book!

Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for an ARC of this book.

the book 'dance with me on new years eve' was so sweet and romantic. I enjoyed the online romance which evolved through out this book. the book gave me 'you've got mail' vibes which was amazing as I loved that book too. I felt connected to the MC as I too have social aniexty and I feel it was portrayed amazingly.

this book is such a good holiday read!