In this super cute romance with lots of my favorite tropes, two friends decide to switch boyfriends for the holidays (yay, Christmakkah!) because they are convinced their respective parents will hate the boyfriend they are actually dating and they don’t feel like dealing with the drama. As one might guess, things don’t turn out quite the way they plan! I wound up connecting with one couple more than the other (one was a case of serious crushing from high school, so when they have to “Fake date” the chemistry is off the charts). A cute holiday read. ( )

Robyn and Sidney are very different types of young women, and I couldn't believe how any of this would be even remotely believable. But, it wound up being a lot of fun to read, once I got past the notion of why Robyn and Sidney's boyfriends would ever agree to such a Hallmark twist. Actually, it was handled in as real a way as it could be, and once that matter was settled, I just sailed along, enjoying this romantic comedy. Perry and Will almost seems like caricatures at first, but as the switch over the holidays takes place, all the characters warmed up. ( )

I received an advance review copy of this book from the Great Thought's Ninja Review Team. All opinions are my own.

I am a first time reader of Meredith Schorr, and I am definitely a fan. This book had such a unique and fun plot that I was hooked from the very beginning. Swap boyfriends for the Christmas holidays because of less-than-ideal family dynamics—I knew this was going to be a recipe for a fun read.

As a woman working my way up the corporate ladder, I could relate with Sidney every step of the way. I understood her struggles, and I could understand many of the decisions that drove her throughout the book. That being said, I was racing to the end of the book to see how it ended for Robyn…and I definitely wasn’t disappointed!!

The Boyfriend Swap was a great way to get into the upcoming holiday season, and it is definitely worth the read. ( )

Robyn Lane is a music teacher who, along with her roommate, Anne Marie, is having a girls' night out wine party. Asked to attend is Anne Marie's boss, Sidney Bellows, a driven attorney who needs to get away from her office and an annoying co-worker for awhile.

Both women are dreading the coming Christmas festivities with their families. Robyn's parents hate anyone she's interested in - laid back, artistic types; and Sidney's father, also an attorney and head of the firm she works for, lives, eats and breathes law. Her current boyfriend is also an attorney, but Sidney doesn't want to subject him to her father, because she knows it will be all work and no fun.

After imbibing a few too many, Sidney comes up with a foolproof plan: What if, just for a few days, they swap boyfriends to fool their parents? Robyn can bring Sidney's boyfriend Will, and Sidney can bring Perry, Robyn's actor boyfriend - it's perfect. While Robyn balks at first, Sidney is used to getting her way - after all, she's been formally trained just for that.

When Robyn agrees to the exchange, the next step is to have everyone meet each other and propose the plan to Will and Perry. Robyn's surprised when she recognizes Will as someone she grew up with and had a crush on in high school; and Sidney, seeing Perry, thinks he's the most gorgeous man she's ever seen. While Perry is willing (thinking he can hone his acting skills), Will is harder to convince, until he "overhears" a staged conversation Sidney is supposedly having with her father.

With everything in place, it all seems like it's going swimmingly. Robyn's parents are glad to have Will back into the fold, and unfortunately for Robyn, mention her girlhood crush...which she still has, unbeknownst to Will.

Sidney, on the other hand, is stunned when she realizes that her parents absolutely love Perry. Her firm's specialty is entertainment law, and her father offers to help him; her mother thinks he's charming. Sidney, however, isn't pleased by the fact that Perry isn't 'sticking to the script' and unhappily begins to realize this is one situation she's losing control of, which angers her.

What ensues is a comedy of errors while the two women try to get through their time at home and return to their former lives. But what they're soon figuring out is that going back to the way things were before isn't as easy as they thought it would be; and maybe they don't want to do so after all...

On the one hand, I thought this book was pretty cute. It's a nice semi-sweet tale of what we think we want and discover it's not what we really want at all. Although I felt that Sidney's transformation was much greater than Robyn's - Sidney's had a lot to do with wanting a piece of her own life to remain just that, while Robyn's appeared to be that she had been stuck in an eternal one-sided relationship for years; I did think that having truthful conversations with their respective sets of parents might have been in order for some time coming.

However, I also felt it was perfect for a quick Christmas feel-good read; and quite a nice story. Recommended if you need something to cozy up to on a cold winter evening. ( )

I found this to be such a fun read where an overachieving attorney, Sidney and an elementary school music teacher, Robyn come up with a scheme regarding the Christmas holidays. Robyn, the music teacher, is dating Perry who is a narcissistic pretty boy who her parents are not that crazy about and she's kind of tired of explaining why he's still an aspiring actor. While Sidney is dating Will, another attorney who would be the perfect partner for anyone's daughter but she has this fear that if she takes him home to meet her family things will become complicated and she's not ready for that yet. So Sidney comes up with the boyfriend swap, she approaches Robyn with this plan and after a lot of thought and convincing their boyfriends that this would be for just a few days they decide to go through with this crazy idea. It's hilarious, they each learn a valuable lesson regarding themselves, and it's one holiday that they'll never forget. I would like the thank the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with an e-galley for my unbiased review. ( )