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by Sarah Ready: This was a quirky, funny, nerdy rom-com about two physicists who switch bodies due to an incident in the laboratory and how they develop a deeper appreciation for each other by having to (literally) walk in each other’s shoes.

Serena is a cooky free-spirited, sci-fi-loving, coffee-drinking vegetarian Californian who loves to smash atoms at The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva but never wants to fall in love. Henry is a straight-laced, meat-eating, tea-drinking, intensely organized Brit who loves physics almost as much as his big family and can’t wait to settle down. They couldn’t be more different, but they didn’t know all that the night they had a life-changing one-night stand. Not interested in love, Serena stops things before they can start, but fast forward to a year later, and these colleagues are caught in an electrical storm at the lab. With no memory of the storm’s aftermath, they each awake the following day only to find they switched bodies. A series of hijinks ensue as Serena and Henry discover more about what makes the other tick and the feelings they’d each been hiding about the night they spent together.

This one requires a lot of suspension of disbelief, and the concept of falling in love with someone while inhabiting their body gives me a bit of an *ick*. However, they are fun and funny characters, have a hilarious meet-cute, and their families are top-notch. So, if you are looking for a quick, humorous read, this fits the bill. It is the second in a series but can be read stand-alone.