Wasn’t a huge fan of this book. The characters were hard to like and I just couldn’t stay involved with the story enough to want to read this from start to finish.

The trope is twins swap but in this case, the exchange is very dangerous. Jackie Webb is a wedding planner and at the moment is involved in the wedding from hell. To such an extent that she can’t get away to attend the week-long activities of her own wedding! So she convinces her identical twin sister to swap places with her in the events leading to her wedding.

Poor Hope tries to get out of her sister’s scheme but fails. Then she gets to the groom’s family summer estate in Blue Hill, Maine. There Hope is brought into the family and falls in love with all of them. Coming from an unstable childhood, she enjoys the warmth of a big family, she’s enchanted with Brett’s family and eventually, she’s enchanted with the groom himself.

As things get complicated and Jackie keeps postponing her arrival, everything gets more and more complicated because her feelings start to get involved, with Brett and his family, and the deceit starts to weigh heavily on her.

Likewise, Brent is initially confused by this “new version” of Jackie. This fiancée loves carbs, hates mornings, is warm and laid back. The Jackie he knew was driven, a morning person, athletic and had a no carbs diet. Even so, he enjoyed and kept getting increasingly attached to this version of Jackie.

Initially, the book was a little humorous as Hope kept getting into scrapes, trying to fit in as Jackie. Then we get into angsty space as Hope gets more conflicted and Brent tries to get “cozy” with his fiancée.

The book was entertaining and the characters charming. I kept cringing every time Jackie called and postponed her arrival and eventually I started being irritated by her. I found Jackie selfish and uncaring about her twin’s ordeal; Hope is soft and kind, unable to say no to her sister. Jackie and Brent were planning a convenience marriage but Hope didn’t know and was blindsided with the information. I saw Jackie as a social climber and using her twin sister without compunction.

Their mother is a little zany and best friend Meredith colorful enough to be interesting. Brent’s family is just lovely, all that a loving family should be. I loved the family times and poor Hope’s turmoil. In spite of all the angst, it was a lovely romantic book, even though I had problems with how fast the deception was fixed and everyone was so lovey-lovey again, especially Jackie and Hope.

The Duplicate Bride by Ginny Baird was a sweet story. Twin sister make a for a fun story. Quick and easy read. I enjoy the book!

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I was stressed so often when reading this one because I am not a fan of deception in general. I had to keep going though because I had to know how these twins pulled off the wedding.

The pace wasnt fast, but enjoyable. The writing was done well. The language and sexual content was very clean and closed door. This would be perfect for readers who enjoy clean content.

It is so hard to find a good clean romance any more, especially one that is not cheesy but with a great storyline. The Duplicate Bride did not disappoint! It was a little predictable but then not. It was a cute romance with everything you’d want from one!

A sweet and sassy contemporary romance that cannot fail to enchant, readers everywhere are sure to fall in love with Ginny Baird’s latest novel, The Duplicate Bride.

Hope and Jackie Webb might be twins, but they couldn’t be more different. While they are identical in looks, their outlooks are poles apart. Jackie has always been an ambitious go-getter while schoolteacher Hope is perfectly content living in a small town and escaping into the pages of her favorite books. Despite their differences, the girls are absolutely devoted to one another and would do absolutely anything for each other – but when Jackie phones Hope and asks her for a massive favor, Hope thinks that her sister has gone too far this time! Impersonating each other might have been fun when they were kids, but now that they are grown women masquerading as her twin is just not on – especially when Jackie is meant to be meeting her fiancé’s glamorous family! However, when saying no to her sister proves easier said than done, Hope finds herself packing her suitcase and heading off to meet her sister’s new in laws and her soon to be groom who might turn to be absolutely perfect – for her!

Hotel magnate Brent Albright cannot put his finger on it, but something seems off about his fiancée. Sure, theirs is no love match, however, the woman standing before him is not the driven career-obsessed fiancée who cared only about status and prestige, but a warm-hearted, funny and sweet woman who charms his family – and him! Yet his fiancée seems desperate to avoid him and is doing her utmost to ensure that she is not in the same room as him – which only serves to increase Brent’s attraction towards her. This woman standing before him could very well end up being the woman he had long given up hope of ever finding, but is she all that she seems? Or are Brent’s suspicions right and the woman standing before him is keeping something from him?

Hope never expected to end up falling head over heels with her sister’s soon to be bridegroom. But as her feelings for Brent intensify with each passing day, what is she going to do? Will she protect her sister and risk losing the love of a lifetime? Or will she tell the truth about who she really is?

Ginny Baird’s The Duplicate Bride is a wonderful contemporary romance full of charm, humor and warmth that I fell in love with from the very first page. A feel-good read that touches the heart and makes readers laugh out loud on plenty of occasions, The Duplicate Bride sparkles with an intoxicating blend of delicious wit, sweet romance and captivating emotion.

Hope and Brent are two wonderful characters readers cannot help but fall for. Hope is a lovely and loyal heroine whereas Brent is sexy, charismatic and absolutely gorgeous!

A stellar romantic read that is simply irresistible, The Duplicate Bride is a must-read for contemporary fans everywhere!

I really enjoyed this story. I think it was a little hard to believe that twins could fool someone so much. However the love story was sweet and it has my HEA. Enjoyed and will recommend!

You don’t have to agree with the storyline in a real life scenario to love this book! A great story, and a real page turner. Would definitely recommend!

I loved the set up, the idea was really fun to me. But sadly, the product was a bit lackluster. I get it was a clean romance and all, but even then you can have some more tension, this was a calm lake with a little pebble thrown in now and then to crease the surface, but no river snaking through rapids making me NEED to read more.

A lot of it needs suspension of disbelief, from two twins being so similar despite entirely different diets and workout regiments, that no one would tell them apart. And a fiance, sure sure, of convenience, but still, not being suspicious when she can't recall anything they have ever talked about. And why anyone would want to help Jackie at all, when she comes across as nothing but arrogant, I don't know.

The more I read, the more I second guessed everything, and in the end, it was just lackluster.

Who doesn’t love a good old sibling switcheroo storyline? The Duplicate Bride brings together the best of those storyline’s into one (mostly) really good read.




The characters were fun to get to know (and some of them really manage to surprise you!). As a reader we’re naturally pre-disposed to liking/rooting for the main characters but honestly? The focus of the book (for me at least) were Brent’s family, Meredith and Ava - I loved the positive vibes this book was giving off!



I’m surprised at how… Realistic The Duplicate Bride was as it neared the ending chapters. It’s no “oh by the way I’m not who you think I am.” A slight falling out and then happily-ever-after. Oh no. This book really makes you work (in a good way) for the happy-ever-after and it feels so much more satisfying/rewarding for it.



Complete honesty? I rooted for Hope and Brent - and felt their chemistry - more towards the ending chapters than I did during the course of the book, that could be because I’m in a really… Strange kinda reading slump lately I guess or maybe not, I honestly can’t say because honestly? Some of the things Hope (and Jackie) did were a big nope for me.

That’s also why it took me well over two weeks to finish reading The Duplicate Bride (when initially I was so excited for it).



I hope we get to go back to Blue Hill though because I really want to see more of Brent’s family, especially Derrick & Meredith (that looks like it’s gonna be FUN)

The Duplicate Bride by Ginny Baird is a contemporary romance novel . 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 Duplicate Bride is a romance that hooked me early but then had me dreading going back to the story because I knew the big reveal of the deception could happen at any moment. I liked Hope's character, even if a good number of her choices. I understood why she made some oft hose choices, but that did not always make it easier to deal with. She got sucked into an impossible situation, and it kept snowballing, and I could sympathize. Her mother and Brent's family were all great characters, but I did feel like I never got to know or understand Jackie- the reason this whole story happened. I liked getting to know the families and seeing the relationship between Brent and Hope grow, but I spent too much of the book anxious and waiting for the other shoe to drop to really enjoy the sweet or silly moments. It was all very well done, and had me on pins and needles, but I was not really ready for the stress this read inspired in me. I think I will definitely give the author another read, maybe a less tense read and hopefully with some of the characters I met in this one.

The Duplicate Bride is a solid romance with plenty of feels and solid characters. I think I will be reading more from the author in the near future.

My thanks to NetGalley and Entangled Publishing, LLC/Entangled: Amara for an eARC copy of this book to read and review.

I'm not a huge romance reader, as usually the plots seem a tad far-fetched, but I do enjoy a good twin switcheroo plot so decided to give this a try. Plus, that cover really caught my eye. It's beautiful!

The writing was strong and the MC h, while not overly self-aware, was a very sweet person. The H was swoon-worthy and his family was too cute. I really liked his grandmother and mother. Very strong and sweet in their own ways.

I do hope there is a story following Jackie, the other twin. She seems very sad and I would like to see her in the middle of her job. She is dedicated to it and works very hard, we are told, but I would love to see her talk down a Bridezilla and the end result of her hard work.

I would also like to see her get her own HEA and maybe also become a tad more self-aware as well.

This is one I will be recommending at the store. 3.5 stars, rounded down as I couldn't QUITE buy into the reason why Hope didn't put the brakes on the mistake ASAP. But other than that, this book was a nice palette cleanse and just what I needed.

Ahhhh I am still struggling with this book, why you may ask? Well here we have twins and when they were younger they may have switched places but now you guys are adults, that is the where this all went wrong for me. Jackie needs her sister to switch places with her and spend time with her fiance and his family, and while Hope didn't want to she ended up agreeing especially hearing that the grandmother was mean to her (really), So here she goes and she is going to have them love her, yet Jackie didn't love her fiance this was some business type of arrangement not love involved, yet she was still his fiance not Hope, so even thought everyone is all gooey that Hope and Brent fell in love, uh I have sisters and couldn't imagine doing that, I dont care if they didn't love each other they were still engaged. (who knows maybe I am making this bigger than it is) Ok and then we have Brent, what the heck dude you really didn't know that something was wrong? how many drinks did you have..so I wont give it a two-yup thought about it, because I didn't hate it, close but not that bad but no more than a three.

Unfortunately this one was a DNF for me. Sometimes these swapped twin stories work for me and sometimes they don't. In this case I just couldn't get past the trickery to be OK with what was happening.

I just couldn't get past all the lies, and how far/ long they let this deception go on. I felt so bad for Brent and he forgave and moved on way too quickly. I normally love the switched places books but not this one.

I have mixed emotions about this story.

While bride swapping and marriage of convenience are some of my favorite tropes, this one left a bad taste for me. The fact that Hope’s lies kept growing and growing did not endear me to her. Nor to her sister, Jackie, since she was the twin who instigated this situation. Poor Brent was so confused and understandably hurt when learning of their deception but I wished he had pushed more for an explanation when he kept finding idiosyncrasies with Hope/Jackie.

While there is a romance brewing between Hope and Brent, most of the story was taken up with Hope’s anxiety about her duplicity. There wasn’t even any steam to look forward to!

This is the first book that I have read by this author. It was entertaining but ended up falling flat for me. Like how can Derrick not realise the switch-ups? It kept my attention and had me guessing until the very end though. And I really love the Albright family. I think this could've been better

The Duplicate Bride was a good, not great, book. The premise is interesting, but as you get into the book, some of it seems pretty far fetched.

It takes a classic plot - switching places - and provides an enjoyable read, but it's not the kind of story that stays with you. You'll enjoy the book, once you can get past the fact that two twins that are polar opposites can successfully trade places. It's a little convenient that one twin that loathes exercise can succesfully sub in for the one that runs 5 miles a day, but 'let's put that side.

The writing is good, enjoyable and entertaining. It is a quick read, and it it's not a super-angsty book, so if you're looking for a well-written, light read, this is a good one for you..

When Hope's twin sister, Jackie, begs her to take her place at her pre-wedding week while Jackie finishes up managing one of her company's weddings, Hope is initially set on NO. But as each word Jackie spits out shows how her fiancé's grandma already dislikes her, Hope knows she needs to go rescue her twin's reputation with her soon to be in-laws. Unfortunately once Hope arrives, the whole family mistakes her for her twin. What's a carb loving teacher to do when faced with a gorgeous man intent on marrying her?

Well...she could have fessed up, should have fessed up, but then there wouldn't have been a story to tell. The rest of the story is a clean yarn about Hope and Brent making their way from a marriage of convenience to a real marriage, one of course marred by Hope's lie of omission.

I admit the premise of this story is fun and cute. And the story is fun and cute too, to a point. But mostly my takeaway from it is a kind of boring story where I had to suspend my disbelief to the highest extent, be annoyed that Hope didn't just admit she wasn't her twin, and, most importantly, wish for some heat between the two leads. Because this is a clean (read, no descriptive scenes), alas, the heat is not present, and it made an already veering into boring story, that much less entertaining for me. I can get behind a good clean romance, IF there's enough tension between the two leads that the lack of descriptive details doesn't matter, and if the story is highly entertaining too. Unfortunately, neither of those two things happened here, to the detriment of what could have been a great story.

The Duplicate Bride!

Brent and Jackie are engaged to be married, and they and their families are spending the week prior to the wedding getting to know each other and help the happy couple celebrate. But Jackie (a wedding planner herself), is facing issues with a big client also getting married. Jackie asks her identical twin, Hope, to pretend to be Jackie for 1 day, while she deals with the situation. Hope refuses to pretend to be Jackie, but when she is faced with the disapproval from Brent’s grandmother, she takes Jackie’s place. 1 day, turns into 2, then 3, then more! And the number of people who know the truth on Jackie’s side grows. Everyone tries their best to help Hope be her best Jackie, but no one expects that Jackie evades everything related to her own wedding! Or that Hope really falls for Brent, who thinks he is falling in love with Jackie! Wait! Shouldn’t he be in love before they got engaged?

I really enjoyed this book and the various personalities! I did not like Jackie from our first introduction. She seemed selfish and uncaring of how her lack of interest in her own wedding affected everyone else. And Brent! Although he was a great fiancé now, how could he make an arrangement of convenience and then not realize the woman he is falling in love with could not be Jackie! And he knew she had a twin! Poor Hope! I know that once she started the lie, it was so difficult to carry it through. But to go as far as she did seemed waaay too far for me! However, I’m glad it all was forgiven and they get the HEA they deserved.

I received an ARC copy of this book courtesy of NetGalley and Entangled Publishing and am voluntarily reviewing it. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and given freely.