📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 The Holiday Swap
AUTHOR: Maggie Knox @maggieknoxauthor
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐰
Published: October 5, 2021
The Review 📚 The Holiday Swap
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I saw this was a Book of the Month selection and thought it woulld be perfect for this time of year (December, when I read it).
💜 What I liked:
- This was a very cute story told in a dual perspective. It reminded me of Parent Trap and Princess Switch! The sisters are fun and filled with personality. This was the perfect fun read for the holidays and I am so glad I picked it up!
😱 What I didn’t like:
- There was something missing I couldn’t put my finger on. But overall it was exactly the easy winter read I wanted.
🚦 My face at the end: 🥰
💭 5 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Cute swap story
- 2. Small town vibes
- 3. Baking show
- 4. Sourdough
- 5. Family
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Charlie and Cass switch places in order to further Charlie’s TV career.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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📘 Summary 📚 The Holiday Swap
A feel-good, holiday-themed romantic comedy about identical twins who switch lives in the days leading up to Christmas–perfect for fans of Christina Lauren’s In a Holidaze and Josie Silver’s One Day in December.
All they want for Christmas is a different life.
When chef Charlie Goodwin gets hit on the head on the L.A. set of her reality baking show, she loses a lot more than consciousness; she also loses her ability to taste and smell–both critical to her success as show judge. Meanwhile, Charlie’s identical twin, Cass, is frantically trying to hold her own life together back in their quaint mountain hometown while running the family’s bustling bakery and dealing with her ex, who won’t get the memo that they’re over.
With only days until Christmas, a desperate Charlie asks Cass to do something they haven’t done since they were kids: switch places. Looking for her own escape from reality, Cass agrees. But temporarily trading lives proves more complicated than they imagined, especially when rugged firefighter Jake Greenman and gorgeous physician’s assistant Miguel Rodriguez are thrown into the mix. Will the twins’ identity swap be a recipe for disaster, or does it have all the right ingredients for getting their lives back on track?