The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox

Happy Publication Day to this charming romantic comedy! Take two identical twin bakers, add one injury and you get a fantastic recipe for a highly entertaining read!  It’s my pleasure to introduce you to The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox.

Plot Summary

Charlie Goodwin is a chef on a reality baking show.  When she suffers a head injury on the set and realizes she’s lost her senses of taste and smell, she knows that her success as a reality show baking judge is on the line. She contacts her identical twin Cass who helps run the family’s bakery business and pleads for her to switch places with her until the end of the current shooting schedule.  Needing an escape from her own life, Cass wholeheartedly agrees.

Neither sister knows all that’s in store for her in their swapped life.  It’s the week before Christmas and life are stressful. Why not complicate it a bit more by finding love?  Will the sisters be able to pull off this swap without any disasters?

Book Review

This book was highly entertaining and I enjoyed it.  Books set around food always entice me and The Holiday Swap had my mouth watering!  The recipes all sounded delicious and had me building my list of Christmas baking in the months ahead.

The identical twins swapping lives is a favourite trope of mine and this one was well executed. The characters were likeable and well developed. The reader is provided with a good sense of the similarities and differences between Charlie and Cass.  I appreciated the theme of venturing outside of your comfort zone to find the life you’re looking for.  Humour is used wisely throughout.  All in all the book is sweet, full of Christmas coziness, and a joy to read.

What I Liked:

• The food and baking setting at Christmas
• The well developed and likeable characters
• The romances that develop for each of the sisters

I Recommend This Book To:

Those readers that enjoy Christmas stories of identical twins or books set around food.

My Rating:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Acknowledgments:

Thank you to Penguin Random House Canada and Netgalley for the ARC of this book in exchange for the honest review provided here.

Similar Books I’ve Reviewed:

Happily this Christmas by Susan Mallery

The Christmas Sisters by Sarah Morgan

The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss

Thanks for reading and supporting this blog!  Do you enjoy books set at Christmas?  Let me know in the comments.  As always, I hope that you have a wonderful day.