Thank you to NetGalley and Entangled Publishing for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was a fun and flirty read. I would recommend if you're looking for (SPOILERS):

-twin switch
-arranged marriage
-close proximity
-wedding fun
-a wild bachelorette
-a cute canoe date

This one's a closed door romance. It's not truly a love triangle but rather a book about waiting for the right person. The situations are fun and it propels the story forward wondering if Hope's identity will be figured out. It was a bit too insta love for me, but I truly enjoyed all of the family situations. I laughed so many times at the singing gag.

Rating: 3.5

The Duplicate Bride, kinda name that had me wanting to read this book from the get go! As the name suggests, our heroine is one of the two sisters (twins!), who has to cover up for her sister and pose as and act as her sister throughout the week prior to her sister’s wedding. What could go wrong?

The book is well written, and filled with sweet moments between our heroine and our hero, Brent. There are also many sweet and heartfelt moments between our heroine and Brent’s family. There are some sweet moments with our heroine with her sister’s best friend as well... point being, we have a very sweet heroine in Hope. She’s kind, loves to eat and read and has a very good and accepting heart, unfortunately, her very nature becomes her biggest downfall.
Brent is a good guy, he’s focused on getting his life together and planting his feet! Love and romance have taken a back seat and he’s happily getting married for convenience of sorts, instead for love, as he believes that love would eventually make its way in to his and Jackie’s (Hope’s twin) life, who is just as much happy with a marriage of convenience and all the perks it brings.
Then Hope happens and Brent realizes that he’s falling for his bride to be, only problem is, it’s not his bride to be at all!
From there on, the book is a mix of happy misadventures, funny situations, emotional moments and Hope’s mom’s singing 🤐.

I enjoyed the premise of the book, and I loved how the story flowed through out, but I had a few issues with the connection between Brent and Hope. Though I felt there was something there, it wasn’t as “organic” as I’d have liked it to be. Same way, I was expecting way more humor owing to the premise of the book. Now having said that, I did enjoy this book immensely and those just are personal preferences and preconceived expectations that made me give the book a four star.

I was given an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to the publisher, author and Netgalley for your kind consideration.

I really wanted to like this book more than I did. It had such a good premise but ended up falling flat for me. Thank you to netgalley for the arc.

When Hope’s sister Jackie is a wedding planner, and is stuck trying to iron out a few last minute details before she takes a break for her own wedding. Since she can’t be there for the start of the weeklong wedding festivities, she requests Hope to pretend to be her for one day. Initially Hope declines, but once she reaches the wedding venue, a turn of events lead to everyone thinking she is the bride, and Hope is unable to correct them. Hope thinks since it’s just got one day, she can manage, but soon one day turns to 2 and so on.
Brent and Jackie’s relationship is more of a business transaction than a proper marriage, but still he is willing to make it work and wants to use this week before the wedding to know his fiancée better. Brent is surprised to find a connection with her that was missing before, and as he spends time with her, he starts falling for her. But what will happen when he comes to know that it’s not Jackie he is falling for but her twin sister, Hope.
For most part I found this to be a charming read and Hopes attempts at not falling for Brent a little funny. But I think getting married while pretending to be your sister was taking it a little too far. Other than that it was a cute read with some really fun moments.

The switcheroo...I love it for the pure pleasure of anticipating how long before the house of cards tumble down. I like Hope, I think she is the less selfish twin and such a heartwarming character, clearly way out of her league for this fiasco. I really like Brent too, he's a nice guy with a big heart and a whole lot of love to share. His family is a little challenging but they clearly love and support one another. Didn't really like Jackie, she comes across as shallow and elusive. I really think the ruse went on for entirely too long and definitely went way too far for the bounce back not to seem a little bit rushed.

Hope's twin sister, Jackie, is getting married this week, but she's a wedding planner with another wedding to sort out first. She asks the unthinkable of Hope - take her place and pretend to be her, just until she arrives. It'll only be a day, tops! Hope knows it's all wrong, but she really wants her sister to be happy - and then she starts to fall for Brent and his family...

This was a fun and fresh take on the "marriage of convenience" trope (with twins thrown in for good measure!) and I enjoyed every minute of it. Brent and Hope were written well together, so clearly meant-to-be. You can throw characters together, but you've got to make sure they have chemistry - and boy, do they! I suppose the premise is slightly on the ridiculous side and sometimes I felt as frustrated as Hope as things continued to worsen for her. Still a great read, however.

It's a classic Parent Trap style switch with higher stakes. The Duplicate Bride will suck you in and hold you in anticipation of how it will end. I really couldn't put this one down. I'm basically in love with the entire Albright family and I want to be part of it.

Thank you to the author and NetGalley for the arc. I voluntarily read and reviewed this title.

I enjoy this book which tells the story of twin sisters who are based in the USA who swapped roles during one of the twins pre-wedding festivals.

This book reminded me of the parent trap with the twins swapping roles , This book was also good to learn about the different wedding culture and planning from the USA where book is based and the UK where I live.

With thanks to Entangled Publishing LLC & NetGalley for the Arc of this book in exchange for this honest review

A fetchingly intriguing novel.
The Duplicate Bride keeps you guessing till the very end. I just had to know happened when they got found out. Ginny Baird created a masterpiece!

The Duplicate Bride is a contemporary romance novel written by Ginny Braid. It's written in third POV, which always takes some time from me to get used to. The view switches between Brent and Hope, the main characters and I enjoyed that fact.

Hope and Jackie are twin sisters. Jackie is getting married, but she has problems at work so she asks Hope to swap places with her and go play Jackie on her pre-wedding festivities. It was supposed to be only for a day, but one day turns to another and then another one.

As soon as Hope arrives to meet Brent and his family, she realizes that everything isn't okay between Brent and Jackie. Brent also sees there's something not right with his fiancee. She used to love jogging and had a strict diet, now she doesn't want to get up early to run and loves to eat everything she doesn't usually eat. Brent struggles with his personal life and it seems that being with Hope helps him to understand himself more.

All these small changes he notices on his fiancee makes him want to win her over. He really wants to try to make this relationship work. He wants to love her and wants her to love him. They spend a lot of time together and somewhere along the way Hope realizes that she's developing too warm feelings towards his sister's soon-to-be husband.

I especially liked Brent's family. There were multiple fun characters. I wouldn't mind being a part of family like that. The writing is beautiful! I liked that this was a clean romance. The connection between Brent and Hope felt real.

The things I struggled with this book were Jackie (didn't like her at all) and how long the things went on before the secret of twins swapping places comes out.

Three and half stars

Thank you Entagled Publishing, LLC and NetGalley for providing me an e-arc in exchange for an honest review. My review is my own and not influenced by others.

To be honest I didn’t like or enjoyed reading this book. Jackie was a character I didn’t like through this story because I thought she was selfish and didn’t have her priorities set in a good way. Not only sending her sister to pretend to be her so she can plan someone else's wedding, but also making her sister to wed her fiancee because she can't make it because of the wedding she's planning for someone else.
Hope was a character I liked in the beginning, she is naive but also wants to help someone she loves, her sister. Something she happened to do before. But this also makes her decides to go all the way in pretending to be her sister, even to marry her brother in law which I think was going way too far.
Brent was a character I had to grow in to, I didn’t particularly liked him but also didn’t like him. He was in my opinion okay but nothing more than that.

This whole story felt shallow and tedious until the last two chapters, then everything was rusted and suddenly they all lived happily ever after.

***The Duplicate Bride should appeal to romance readers who like the twins exchange places trope. Ginny Baird has written a clean, sweet story about one twin, Jackie, who has entered into what would be a marriage of convenience for her and her soon to be groom. When her wedding planning business requires her presence elsewhere she sends twin sister Hope to her fiancé’s home right before Jackie’s own wedding just for a day...except the day turns into another and another. Nothing goes as planned and as the big day approaches who actually will be standing at the alter? This is a cute story about family, impressions and maybe falling in love. The writing is good and the story is filled with surprises. I voluntarily reviewed an advance copy of this book from NetGalley.

* Thanks to Netgalley for sending me this ARC in exchange for my honest review.



The Duplicate Bride is sweet and cute romance.
Hope Web, school teacher and lover of romance novels, swaps places with the twin sister, Jackie, workaholic wedding planner, and plays fiancée on Jackie's pre-wedding festivities.
But when Hope meets Brent she is instantly attracted to him. And the attraction is mutual.
Jackie's and Brent's wedding is a business deal.
There is no love. They don't know euch other that well.
That is way Brent doesn't know that Jackie isn't Jackie. But he likes this version, this warm smiling, sweet and kind woman, much better.
All he want to do is spent time with her, kiss her, hold her...
When Hope meets Brent's family she falls in love with them. They love her to... And things began to complicate.

Let's just say that this is a little to frustrated for me. Because I didn't wanted that this book have this ending.
I just hated Jackie through whole book, and Hope was little too naive and too good for my taste.
Brent was ok, but I didn't get, how can you fall in love in two minutes... But he did it! Wow!
It's just they attraction is based on their looks... And this was a little shallow for me...

It was cute read, 3 stars.

I love the idea of twins swapping places! First, like many people I’ve always been fascinated with twins. I wanted twins with each pregnancy, but wasn’t meant to be for me. Second, who wouldn’t fantasize about switching places with someone? Sounds fun and a little risky.

In Duplicate Bride by Ginny Baird, that’s exactly what twin sisters Hope and Jackie wind up doing. The two sisters are very very different from each other except in their appearances. Jackie asks Hope to fill in for her for the week before her wedding with the her groom, Brent and his family. Hope says no, because it isn’t right but through a serious of events winds up doing exactly what she said she wouldn’t do. Pose as her twin sister with Brent and make a good impression on his family. She is trying to help Jackie out and gain favor with Brent’s grandmother who decided she didn’t like Jackie.

Only Hope isn’t supposed to develop feelings for the man her sister is marrying at the end of the week! It gets messy, heated and complicated really fast!!!

I love the writing- and Brent’s family is amazing. I want his family too! The twin’s mom is hilarious... and the bachelorette night is memorable! A fun romance to get lost in!!!

Thank you to NetGalley, Ginny Baird, and Entangled Publishing for this temporary advance review copy for me to read and enjoy. As always, my reviews are voluntary and my opinions are my own.

This blurb reminded me of a cherished Historical Romance from the nineties so I had to pick it up. What was frustrating for me was that the entire book the big secret of the swapped twins isn't revealed. They even get married and he's still thinking he's got Jackie instead of Hope on his arm. This means that the whole breakup and reconciliation happens in like 2 chapters and it felt very rushed. I'd much prefer that the wedding either happen earlier and they live together as husband and wife for a while or that the ruse be caught in the middle of the book so there was a better chance of a satisfying reconciliation.

Cute "Parent Trap concept book about one sister who is getting married, and her twin whop. takes her place after a crazy mix up. It is odd the groom doesn't know one twin from the other. It was a light read, nothing heavy, which is just what I needed.

It's okay.
Scenario is a bit ridiculous.

Hope Webb can’t believe her twin sister, Jackie, is begging her to swap places and play fiancée at Jackie’s pre-wedding festivities. Sure, it’s only a business-deal sort of marriage, but Hope is a carb-loving teacher who enjoys curling up with a good book. Jackie is a workaholic whose idea of a good time is a brisk five-mile run at the crack of dawn. The two sisters couldn’t be more opposite.

Now Hope is stuck in the middle of a warm, tight-knit family she can’t help but adore and a groom who turns out to be entirely wonderful...for her.

Hotel magnate Brent Albright knows something is off about his fiancée, but he doesn’t care. Gone is the driven woman with similar career goals, and in her place is someone warm and funny who not only charms his family but him as well. She’s doing everything she can to avoid him, but that’s probably just nerves. Two people about to wed couldn’t know each other less.

Now Brent is determined to woo his fiancée, for real this time, because the more he gets to know her, the more his sweet fiancée turns out to be entirely wonderful...for him.

And that’s when things start to get really complicated

The story follows Brent and Hope. Hope’s sister Jackie is getting married to Brent but when Jackie gets super busy the week of the wedding, Hope pretends to be her. When Hope meets Brent, she realizes that Jackie and he have a marriage of convenience. Hope shows her dismay to Brent and he realizes that he needs to make an effort for the bride to be.

I enjoyed this book so much. It was a different concept than books that I have read before this one. I love all the different personalities of all the characters. The way Hope makes friends with everyone in Brent’s family was heartwarming. The book was a lot of fun to read. There were so many twists and turns that you couldn’t really predict the outcome.

I wrote this voluntary review in exchange for an ARC copy.

Hope and Jackie are twins.
Twin sisters switching places-yes
Marriage of convenience - yes
Wrong sister falling in love with the groom - yes

This story was wonderful, loved Hope and Brent and hated Jackie.

4 Discovering Unexpected Love Stars
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We have seen movies of how twins switch and those who know them never figure it out. Now I don't know if that is true but we who are not twins, have had a curiosity about them. I mean, there is this unique bond that is very special.

Ginny Baird took that idea as well as the marriage of convenience trope for The Duplicate Bride. Just imagine sisters who are so very different. One is career-driven, successful with it, physically active, and has an aversion to carbs. The Other is happier in her own skin, loves teaching math, is excellent at it, and never met a carb she didn't love.

These women are complete people and have their own lives. So when Hope's sister Jackie, the expert wedding planner for the rich and famous, begs her to pretend to be her for just one day at the week's gatherings at her fiancée family estate, she says absolutely not. Jackie is having a huge problem with an important wedding and cannot leave on time. Jackie starts to beg.

Yes, Hope admits they did it when they were little, and yes, Jackie saved Hope's skin back in high school but still it is a hard no. Jackie finally pulls the fiancée's grandmother is mean card, of how she was to her making her feel like she hated her and made her feel less than.

Hope felt bad but still said nope, no can do. So Jackie finally agreed and said she would let Brent know she was not going to be there on time for the week.

Brent is nervous and kind of excited to see this wedding to take place. He crossed paths with Jackie and the two of them seemed to be on the same page at the right time of their lives. He needed to "settle down" and Jackie was as career-driven as him. In the long run, Brent felt all would fall into place.

Well as with these types of situations, nothing ever goes as planned...Hope with every intention to make it know she was Hope, not her Sister, is immediately greeted so warmly by Brent's mother. Then the "mean Grandmother" made a very unattractive remark about Jackie actually being there.

Oh No, She Didn't...Hope was not going to allow her to diss her sister and get away with it. Then Brent comes to the car, "sees Jackie", and pulls her into a hug. All of the family was welcoming and the dye is cast.

Hope is stuck being Jackie for at least this day. She will be the best "Jackie" she can be to help her sister blend better and put that grandmother in the plus column and swing her to her side.

This was an engaging book with all of the inner thoughts Hope was having about Brent and Brent about Hope. We knew something was going to happen but we read fast to keep seeing what it was. Along the way, real feelings start to happen to the confusion for Hope but the thrill for Brent.

I was glued to the pages until the end wanting everything to work for the best for this unique couple. This was a little different than the usual romance and was worth my time.