Thanks to NetGalley for the ALC!

Serena does not believe in love. She thinks that if she falls in love she will have to give up her dreams and her personality. Henry loves love. After one fateful night Serena and Henry meet and it’s all hearts and rainbows for Henry. Serena feels that way too however she is afraid this is the start of losing herself. So she breaks up with Henry. One night during a storm Henry and Serena switch bodies and through this experience Serena might learn that love doesn’t request you give up the things you love to be in love.

Overall I really enjoyed this book. I will say the first 30% of the book felt slow for me which is why it took me so long to read it. It put me in a slump. But after the 30% mark I did get into it and really enjoyed it! I think it was interesting to see Serena’s reasoning for not wanting to fall in love. I enjoyed the idea of switched bodies. I thought it was cool that you would see memories from the body you are inhabiting. The romance was sweet between the two. I loved the families. I am really excited to read the author’s other book The Space Between.

This book had a slow start, but it took off running! This book was a charming mixture of Big Bang Theory meets Freaky Friday. I was so excited to find a body-switching romance. I had no clue how they were going to find a way out of it or even IF they would. It was charming and silly and I loved it. I really loved listening to the audiobook, too. The narrator had to do a bunch of silly accents for the characters as they switched and it was very entertaining. I can’t wait to read this one again!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for the opportunity to access this book in exchange for an honest review. I had a lot of fun listening to this book. I will say when the instalove came up early in the book I was super hesitant. That is one of my least favorite tropes. I feel like it was also the main character, “Ducky’s”, least favorite as well. Actually it was just falling in love in general. I loved that even though instalove was hinted at from the beginning of the book the main characters didn’t jump into some serious relationship. A year passes before the “Freaky Friday” aspect of this book happens. Serena and Henry get to experience each others families and learn more about each other in the process. That helps the instalove be a little more tolerable for me. Overall, I had such a good time with this book and will definitely be looking into the other books in this series.

I found this book very hard to get into. Im not sure if it is just because of. the trope or what, but I was so excited for this and i feel like I just couldn't quite get to the hype. I feel bad not loving this book because I really wanted to love it. The start was really slow for me. and I felt that the swap between 2 people that are love interests was weird and hard to wrap my brain around. I may try to read it again later on, maybe I missed something.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for making this audiobook available to people such as myself, readers who aren't professional reviewers.

I chose this audiobook because I liked the concept - body switching. I've enjoyed movies with this concept, but I don't recall reading a book with this concept. Also, this past fall, I discovered romcom books are entertaining.

Overall, it was a fun read. At times, the author bogged the story down with too many details about science and decor and trying to describe emotions. I understand trying to set the scene and create a world, but sometimes it would go on with no end in sight. To get through the overwritten passages, I increased the audio speed.

I liked that the two main characters are smart and secure in who they are. Yes, the female lead experiences emotional growth through the book, but she's smart. Plus, they both have jobs in

About three-fourths in, there is a revelation that is a surprise to the main female character as well as the reader. I don't know if the reader would have guessed it from how it was written. It seemed like an odd detail to add.

Toward the end, a male narrator is introduced for one chapter and reads from the point of view of the male main character, and his voice is too old, which is jarring. The character is roughly 30, and the voice sounds like someone in his 50s.

While the body-switching concept was never fully explained, it didn't bother me. After all, fantasy and magical realism are truly fictional.

The breaking of the fourth wall wasn't necessary.

All in all, I enjoyed it and will look into reading other books by this author.

I listened to the audio version of Switched by Sarah Ready. This was a cute romantic book and I enjoyed it.

This was my first book by this author, I want to go back an read "Ghosted"

I liked the writing style, it was engaging and entertaining enough to keep me reading. It was a fresh new idea I personally haven't read before which was great. The readers were really good too, great inflection in their voices, to keep me entertained.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed Duckie as the main character because she had such drive and passion for her work. I am loving this trend of smart female main characters, it is so amazing to see. This book made me giggle a lot and I really enjoyed the revelation Duckie had in this book. I am not a super big fan of the Freaky Friday-like body switch, but it was well done in this book. Henry and Duckie made for an adorable couple.

"Switched" is a sequel to "Ghosted," where we now follow Jillian's best friend, Serena, through her own metaphysical adventure to romance. In this story, Serena and her one-night-stand-turned-boss end up switching places, a la Freaky Friday.

Henry has already confessed his love to her after their one-night stand, but Serena believes you can only love one thing perfectly. And if it's a choice between a man, who might disappoint you or change you, or the dream job she has worked so hard for, she'll choose the job every time. After all, it was her childhood dream!

But a freak electric storm has them switching places, and now they need to discover just why it is that they are better together than apart.

It was great to see them come to a better understanding of each other (through being housed in each other's body), and I enjoyed some of the ideas the author came up with regarding where memories are housed (body or spirit) and the like.

Thank you to Sarah Ready, W. W. Crown, and NetGalley for an advance review copy.

Thank you NetGalley and publishers for the opportunity to review this book. I really enjoyed this book and the Freaky Friday aspect of it. It was a happily ever after ending, tied up a little too neatly but I am a sucker for a happy ending.

The Freaky Friday of love! I really enjoyed the story and the narration was incredible.
This is Sarah's second book, but it can be read as a standalone. I'm definitely going to read the first and third books, this book is an opposites attract that has been fascinating to read and the way they discover each other has been different, but I liked it a lot.

First of all thank you so much to Sarah for letting me listen and review i think it could be my favourite audio and book Sarah wrote so far in the series ,

The narrators did a brilliant job bringing the story to life i really could see all parts of the story coming to life .

i read Ghosted last year amazing i really feel Sarah out done herself with this story ,
the plot oh my gosh i loved very much the two main characters Serena which was in the last book meets Henry and some really crazy magic happens and they switch bodies i thought this was brilliant ,they had me laughing out load very witty big chef kiss to this story best plot .

Serena i thought great she knows what she wants and goes out to get it , Henry has got his work cut out .they do work so well together .

i loved that we still had the characters from the first book Jillian and Daniel love them
i feel that Sarah's books are just going to get better and better .

im giving this book a huge 5 body switching stars

I listened to the audiobook of Switched by Sarah Ready. The narration by two people was decent although the male narrator had a smaller part in reading than the female.

At the story's beginning, I was a little put off by all the scientific talk and the copious amounts of footnotes. Thankfully they lessened as the story progressed. I found myself laughing out loud a lot, especially after the main characters swapped bodies. I particularly laughed at a scene where our hero in his female body has his first 'monthly'. There were many funny scenes where each character had to deal with life in the opposite gender body. Although very funny, the story isn't just a comedy, the romance in it is beautiful. There were some very sentimental moments where both characters interacted with their families. There was a lot of soul-searching.

I had no idea how the story would end, whether the characters would be able to return to their bodies, and if they could, would have their happy ending. What started as a slow-burning story that I wasn't sure I would like, ended up being one which I loved and would definitely listen to or read again.

An easy enough listen while doing jobs and commuting- mainly background noise as plot didn’t hold me spellbound.
I’m not a fan of the fourth wall being broken, however in audio it kinda sorta works. However the cringe, tropes and, cliches were thick. Think Insta-love, body swap, STEM Femme, US-UK culture clash,. I would never have considered the Hadron Collider as an analogy during love making but, there you go.

With thanks to the author and NetGalley for the opportunity to listen to this ALC.

I loved the footnotes and audio descriptions of graphs. Usually not a fan of breaking the 4th wall, but it works. The premise was a classic but I liked the added bits of flashes of memory and preference of food, etc.

I thought there was a lot of.. explaining of feelings and it was overdone. It made the book longer than it needed to be in my opinion. The last 10% really dragged on for me.

It felt like the author wanted to add more spice but was given a line they couldn't cross and it makes it sort of awkward I find.

Overall, I enjoyed it but wouldn't listen again.

Serena loves her job and wants to keep it like that. When she meets Henry, something shifts inside her, but she shoves it down so her life stays as it is.
Henry meets Serena and falls madly in love with her. Until she dumps him,
Which makes it very hard when Henry starts his new job... as her boss!
Well, but that's not all that shifts in their lives. Some weird sciency thing happens (who knows what!) and suddenly, they have switched bodies!
To go on with their lives, they spend all the time together. Which makes all those feelings start to resurface.

We stay tuned, trying to understand how they will be able to switch again and continue their lives, as they were. But, will they switch back? Or will they stay switched forever?

An interesting and very funny book. The characters are lovable, the side characters bring an extra spark to the story, and there is no way you won't enjoy reading this!

My favorite part was definitely the graphs and Serena's explanations. They brought the book to a higher level of enjoyment.

As for the narration, there's nothing to point out, as it was very enjoyable and well-narrated.

The first Sarah Ready book I read, Ghosted, left me pleasantly surprised, so I was eager to pick up Switched when it was released. This second book did not disappoint and provided me with much of what I really liked about Ghosted and more. I felt like the beginning of Ghosted was a little cheesy, if I remember correctly. I don't remember experiencing that at all in this book.

Sarah Ready seems to be able to take some tropes and turn them into a wild premise, and then she makes it all work. Switched is a Freaky-Friday but make it Woman-in-STEM trope mashup in an Enemies-to-Lovers romance novel (with mild open-door scenes near the beginning and end of the book). Serena refuses to let a relationship get in the way of her career in science, but when a chance encounter with a guy at a bar reveals itself to not only have potential for love-at-first-sight but also a workplace romance, Serena backs out quickly, making herself out to be an undesirable match. This works out fine until a mishap at work creates some sort of anomaly that has our two characters soul-swapping (which is actually body-swapping) and Serena and Henry have to start living life together, forced-proximity and fake-dating in order to help each other through some major life events in the other's body. After a lifetime of refusing to change herself for someone else, Serena is changed into someone else without her consent, and she and Henry must wrestle with how to find themselves again, all while growing in understanding for one another and for what it means to share a life together, not reducing one another but helping the other person shine.

Mainly, Sarah Ready is a trope wizard, writing a fun Magical Realism Contemporary Romance. But I also liked the journey the characters took through this book, especially Serena.

Interestingly, I may consider reading Ready's next book physically. The audiobook was great, but it seemed that this book has some graphic elements described in the audio that may have felt more interesting and seamless in print.

This one was super fun and I enjoyed listening to it on audio! The narrators did a fantastic job and made the book an even better experience.

in Switched, we follow Serena and Henry who are our two main characters. Serena doesn't believe in love, or at least she doesn't want to fall in love because she believes she'll lose herself if she does. Her main love in her life is her job and science. Henry is the opposite. He loves his job too, but he is ready to find someone and fall in love with them. When they meet, they have instant chemistry and have a whirlwind of a night together. But obviously, Serena doesn't want to fall in love so she calls it off. Something happens later on and they end up switching bodies and have to figure out how to switch back.

There are so many things I loved about this book! It was engaging, very readable, and funny! The science was explained very well and at times I could have sworn I was reading an Ali Hazelwood book. Serena and Henry had chemistry and I loved reading along as their relationship developed. When they switched bodies, I loved the little quirks about how all that worked, so although body switching has been done before, it set this story apart from the rest. I loved the forced proximity trope & the he falls first trope as well!!

A couple things that didn't work for me: I didn't quite believe ( or at least was frustrated by) Serena's reason for not wanting to fall in love. I understood where she was coming from but the reason was explained in better detail so late into the book that I just didn't buy it. Also the ending was a little too sickly sweet for my liking, but others may not think so!

Overall I really enjoyed my time reading this book. It's definitely something I would buy myself or a friend. If you're a fan of Ali Hazelwood's stem books you may enjoy this too! I recommend the audiobook as it has a male and female narrator and they did such a great job.

Also want to note that this is the second book in an interconnected series. I didn't read the first book but had no problem following/understanding everything that went on in this book so I'd say reading the first is not an absolute requirement.

Serena is me. I am Serena. I’ve never read a FMC that was so against love. And I mean really against it. Even when she knew she was in love she still didn’t want to let her heart go. It was frustrating by the end, which made me frustrated with myself cause am I like that??? Oh god... 🫠

I love a good “love at first sight” trope mixed with the “holy hell we’re so opposite we’d never work out” trope. Making them switch bodies was perfect. Considering I have such a fascination with space I was hooked at their professions. Any space talk had me geeking.

These two and their banter was top notch. And after a few of Sarah’s book under me I now know there’s always going to be a part that hits close to home. A bitch may have teared up at one part. 😢

I love when I’m introduced to a new author that I automatically connect with. After listening to this book (thanks NetGalley), I’m making my way through the Sarah Ready universe - currently 4 books deep now. Can’t stop won’t stop.

I received an audio arc through NetGalley and the author Sarah Ready, thank you!

Switched is the second book in the Ghosted series. It can be read as a standalone, but it’s better to read Ghosted first so you get to know some of the characters, including Serena, the main character.

Switched is about Serena, the sex-loving, Trekkie, science genius best friend of Jillian from Ghosted. Serena lives in Geneva with her cat and is happily single until she meets Henry who changes everything, except they work together and Serena is not okay with that. Somehow, through science or magic, they switch bodies and have to help eachother not only switch back, but run their lives.

I thought this book was really cute. Serena is pretty great. She knows who she is and what she wants and isn’t afraid to go for it.
I love her relationship with her best friend Jillian, and it was fun to hear little posters about Jillian and Daniel.

This was a very good second book to the series but not quite as good as the first. I am excited to read the third when it comes out, Fated.