What to Expect: Low spice body swap romance. Single POV, except for one chapter.

Audiobook: Kelsey Navarro Foster continues to slap as a narrator. Considering her skill in other books, she's almost underutilized here.

Book Jacket: The blurb is bad- Serena is far from carefree- she's the grump. Henry is never really a swoony romantic or aggressively red meaty. They're great, but just ignore the blurb. 

Thoughts: The concept is classic, characters are cute- but the POV protagonist (Serena) is a real bummer about love and relationships in a way that can be confusing and overwhelms the rest of the story- could have benefited from a dual POV back and forth. Her grumpitude towards her concept of love and black-and-white thinking can be off-putting, but she had enough charm I didn't DNF.

Eventually you find out why she's like this about love. But it takes until the back half of the book (and would have been nice to know earlier bc she has some "couples love matching outfits" tirades that were baffling. A lot of text is spent in her head with her untethered, context-free anxiety. It's a vibe.)

The plot hustles once the inciting incident happens. And having some characters from the first book cameo as a Scooby Gang was a nice way to settle into the body swap trope.

Style-wise, there's a lot of waxing on about pop science, locations, and pseudo-metaphysics without a lot of depth of detail, theme, or content. Which some people are going to fucking love, but it didn't hit for me.

The love interest is cute and the story hits all the beats you want from body swap. Ready does a good job delineating the personhood and gender of both people so you never get an awkward "my body is so sexy" moment. The prose flow on the emotional intimacy and self reflection is just a smidge chaotic.