The Holiday Swap - Maggie Knox

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Title: The Holiday Swap
Author: Maggie Knox
Genre: Chick-lit, Christmas
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 351
Date read: December, 2022

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?


Slightly too twee for me in places, but as a whole, I really enjoyed it. I'm not generally a fan of plots involving mistaken identities, but since Cass and Charlie totally did it on purpose here, it bothered me less than it would usually.

I kept changing my mind on which story line I liked best, but think I would have to choose Charlie's - simply because Austin was too annoying for words, and karma was waaaaay too slow in coming his way.

Mostly I loved reading about all the baking that went on. I'm not a huge fan of baking myself, but apparently I love reading about it in my books... at least the Christmas ones.

I'd seen the ending coming from a mile away, and did occasionally roll my eyes at some of it, but all in all it was a cute story. Not quite as Christmassy as I had hoped -- but pretty close.