The Holiday Swap Book Review

The Holiday Swap

by Maggie Knox

Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Ginasbookreport Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre: Contemporary Romance
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“I’ll take your place. We’ll switch, like we used to do when we were kids, remember?”

The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox is a cozy holiday romance, complete with a twin switch and dual love stories. When Charlie suffers a mishap while filming her baking show, she needs to quickly find a way to keep performing her job to salvage her career. Lucky for her, she has an identical twin in Cass, and Cass runs the family bakery. Charlie goes back home to present herself as Cass and finds how much she needed to return to her roots and having a hot fireman around doesn’t hurt, either. (Side note: Between the description and the cover art, was Jake a Prince Harry look-alike?) Meanwhile in LA, Cass is acting as if she is Charlie and finding her voice and love, too. 

Much of the novel takes place in cozy Starlight Peak and all the mentions of baking and foods adds to the charm of the story. The book is fluffy and fast and is structured by presenting both sister’s stories on each of the Twelve Days of Christmas. I also really appreciate that Maggie Knox is a pen name for co-authors Karma Brown and Marissa Stanley. The writing is done seamlessly and you would never guess that it came from two separate voices. Is this a cheesy book that could be a script for a Hallmark holiday movie? Yes. Was it a fun and light-hearted read with low commitment during the holiday season? Also, yes.