The Boyfriend Swap
By: Meredith Schorr
Rating: 5 of 5
Robyn and Sydney are two young women with a common type of problem. The problem is that the parents make too much of or think too little of their daughter’s love life.
Robyn is a wonderful, down-to-earth music teacher at a local school. Her boyfriends are artsy without much plans for the future. Sure, she is having a great time with her main squeeze but her parents (who are rather artsy themselves!) want more for her. Robyn knows that spending the holidays with boyfriend and family will not be the happiest of times for anyone (except her boyfriend who appears to be oblivious to slights.)
Sydney is a go-getter attorney who tries to keep her parents clear of her boy friends because they are inclined to overwhelm them in good or bad ways. Because of this, she is less than happy to include her newish boyfriend in her holiday plans.
When these two women meet through a mutual friend, Sydney comes up with the plan to switch boyfriends for the holidays as neither she nor Robyn will be invested in the outcome. Turns out that things are quite as crystal clear as Sidney thinks – that there are repercussions to her plan and that even those boyfriends have feelings that need to be addressed in more than a mergers and acquisitions style conquest.
This is the second book I have read by Meredith Schorr. I really appreciate the growth in her writing style (which was good to begin with) and plot development. I’ll certainly be looking forward to more books by this talented author in the future.
I was provided a digital advance reader copy of this book by the publisher via Netgalley.
Robyn and Sydney are two young women with a common type of problem. The problem is that the parents make too much of or think too little of their daughter’s love life.