Having the opportunity to switch lives with a billionaire, gaining access to infinite pools of money in seconds, raises an undeniable moral question: With the newfound riches, would a person bask in the glimmering golden glory of wealth or give back to the less-fortunate community they were once a part of?

“Trading Faces,” an upcoming science-fiction novel by M. Carroll, poses this exact question when a group of misfit physics students bands together to trade bodies with wealthy billionaires. The team’s goal is to distribute the money to an array of charities, hoping to make a difference in the world. Each character has their own troubling backstory and reason for sacrificing their lives for the benefit of others, and the cast has to tackle challenges arising from their experiment.

The concept of “Trading Faces” drew me in from the very beginning. The idea that someone could, what the novel describes as “Carbon Transfer,” into another person’s body was an interesting premise I hadn’t heard of before and was a very scientific approach to the usually somewhat mysterious body-swap trope.

Additionally, the dynamic arrangement of characters each had distinct personalities and secrets that kept me eagerly awaiting reveals. One of my favorite duos of characters was Serin and Skye, the former being a prospective physics student and the latter a movie star turned drug addict. I felt their storylines, both apart and together, were some of the most fleshed out of all the characters, and I really enjoyed it whenever the novel was being told from either of their perspectives.

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I also particularly enjoyed the backstory of Megan, a former foster kid whose perspective opens the story. I felt that Megan’s character had great depth in her backstory, which, unfortunately, was a quality that some of the other characters were lacking.

Speaking of perspectives, “Trading Faces” jumps between the eight characters’ perspectives substantially, without much indication of when it’ll happen. Sometimes a character would have ten chapters dedicated to their journey in a row, other times only four or five. While I did like hearing from each of the characters, I would find myself hoping to spend more time with one character rather than another.

Also, the entire book is structured in a very nonlinear way, which was, unfortunately, both interesting and confusing. The timeline jumped around a lot between perspective shifts, which made it difficult to grasp when one character was supposed to be experiencing something compared to another character. I also felt that some of the information given to the reader appeared redundant due to this, with each character uncovering the same revelations as the last had.

While this structure made sense for “Trading Faces,” I do wish it could have been executed more efficiently. I would have liked to see some big plot twists and reveals, rather than the same spiel recited back several times, as there was ample space to play around with major plot twists in such a science-driven world capable of having characters switch bodies with another.

As I neared the end of the novel, there were still questions I had about the storyline, and I’m hoping that they can be answered soon. “Trading Faces” is the first installment of “The Billionaire Switch” franchise, and even though I had some qualms about the structure and pacing of “Trading Faces,” I’m still interested enough in the storyline that I would easily read the next book in the series.

I’m excited to see what Carroll has in store for the next “The Billionaire Switch” novel, and I hope it’ll contain more exciting action and deeper character development. For fans of science fiction and ensemble casts, I’d recommend keeping an eye out for “Trading Faces” when it hits bookstores in early November.