How do you feel about the swinger community? Robyn Harding has a way of creating stories about controversial social situations into great psychological thrillers. This is my second book of hers and I flew through it.

Written in different POVs, the story follows Low, a lonely seventeen-year-old who befriends and becomes obsessed with Freya, an influencer who just moved to the island with her husband Max. They eventually meet Jamie and Brian, another couple who recently moved to the island and their connection is immediate, which rises the drama with Low’s jealousy towards Jamie. Both couples meet for one night to relax using drugs and things got a little of hand, to say the least…

I would’ve loved to read more about Low’s and Freya’s mental health, at least for me it left a few questions unanswered. Aside from that, it was truly a page-turner as I expected it to be.

An ARC of this novel was sent to me by NetGalley for reviewing purposes. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I love reading Robyn Harding! I find her work compelling and fun to read- and this book is no exception. The characters are extremely well written, the plot is very interesting, and I look forward to purchasing this when it comes out in hardcover.

When I first saw this book available on @netgalley I had to request it immediately. I was praying I would be approved for it. I absolutely loved The Arrangement and hoped this one would be even better.
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Low, is an awkward teenager who doesn’t really fit in. It doesn’t help matters that her parents are in a polyamory relationship. When Low sees a woman named, Freya, at her school her life is changed forever. Low is mesmerized by Freya and wants to be apart of her life.
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Freya, is an instagram celebrity and her husband Max is a former hockey player whose life changed when he broke a fellow players neck on the ice.
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Freya and Max one night decide to swap partners with another couple Jamie and Brian after a night of doing psychedelic mushrooms. When Freya later becomes pregnant it makes everyone crazy trying to figure out who is the father. The aftermath of the night causes such anger, jealousy and envy between Low, Freya, Jamie and Brian.
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This was a fascinating book and I was intrigued by the subject matter as polygamy is not generally discussed in mainstream society or at least I haven’t experienced it. Also the idea of swapping partners is a foreign concept to me and one I could never be apart of. The author did a terrific job of painting Freya as a villain and you really did find yourself hating her. Low was a confused teenager as most of were and found herself sucked into a world she had never experienced before and excitement caused her to take actions she would not normally have. Overall, I did enjoy the book a lot but I think I found The Arrangement to be even better. There’s a lot to this book and I think if you are a parent you may relate to it even more than I did. It is definitely a worthwhile read so check it out.

Easy to get drawn into this book and the characters. Great read this one was!! The ending well not what I saw coming. Glad I picked this one up was as good as the blurb made it out to be.


Thanks to the publisher and Net Galley for an early release of this book

Omg. What did I just read? Low's obsession was slightly disturbing. But kept me hooked. I found myself needing to understand the relationship between Freya and her husband Max. Add to it the odd friendship she built with Jamie and her husband Brian. This book has me hooked from the start. Great book about relationships, lust and deceit. I was engaged from the start and it was refreshing to read, as it seems so many other books I've read lately blend together. Thank you #netgalley for this #arc

Loved this book! ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I enjoyed reading this book. It had a good story to it. It is made for the 19 and over crowd. It had a good story to it. It was a well written book.

A fitting psychological thriller that kept me up all night. Told in alternating voices and in the present tense, the story unfolds in front of our eyes as it happens. I love the device used of telling the story through the points of view of different characters. I would have liked a little faster of a beginning but it got rolling eventually and had me gripped through two sittings only because I couldn't keep my eyes open a second longer to finish it in a night. Although the book has no likable characters i enjoyed where each was left come the end.

I have never read any other books by Robyn Harding before and I was quite captivated by this book. I loved this dark thriller and it kept me on the end of my seat throughout. The approach of writing the story from multiple perspectives was perfect for this story. All of the characters are so utterly human that its hard to know what you should be feeling at times. I could relate to Low and her awkwardness, as well as Jamies desire to have a baby. On some level, I felt bad for Maxime but it was truly hard to feel sympathy for Freya at times. This book basically was a deep dive into human emotions such as jealousy, desire and fear and I think it truly approached it in a unique way. I wasn’t sure how this book was going to end but I was definitely not expecting what I read. This book has intruded me to a new author I certainly plan on learning more about. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.

Robyn Harding has done it again! The Swap was one of my most anticipated reads of 2020, and I can honestly say that it is every bit as wonderful as I had hoped it would be. I greedily devoured this one in a single afternoon, so utterly addictive is Ms Harding's storytelling. This is a dark, twisty, and unrelenting read that you will be pulled into from the very first page.

Low is a lonely teen living on an island in the Pacific Northwest when she meets Freya, a complex and enigmatic potter and Instagram personality. Low is immediately enamoured with the older woman, and soon insinuates herself into her seemingly perfect life. When Freya becomes close with another local woman, Jamie, the two women and their husbands form a bond following a night of partner swapping. Low feels that she has been left in the cold, but remains an unsettling presence when it becomes clear that she will not be so easily dismissed.

This novel captivated me from the very start, and is guaranteed to reel you into its tangled web of secrets, deceptions and intrigue. Highly recommended.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster Canada for this fabulous ARC.