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Next To You by Hannah Bonam-Young

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emoryalexander99's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

crispycritter's review against another edition

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4.0

This was a five star read up until the epilogue. That’s really not the time to introduce Lane’s potential

infertility

. It felt like Lane and Matt’s happiness had been partially clawed back for no reason. That reeeeaaalllly should have been a topic that was introduced a whole lot earlier in the book IMO if you were going to include it.

bookishalexis's review against another edition

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3.0

Idk just didn’t connect with this book like I did the first in the series

gmj59's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

ewatt33's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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ruja_reads's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

This isn’t my favorite book — mainly because I don’t love the friends with benefits trope — by this author but I still really enjoyed it and finished it in one sitting. Matt is a perfect golden retriever book boyfriend and my heart hurt for him several times but I love that he never gave up and continued to show his love for Lane. The letters! 😍

lauramcsherry's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Next To You

3.5 ⭐️

Last year I read Next of Kin and I enjoyed it so much I figured I should try the second in the series when I saw a copy of it. I didn’t like this one quite as much but still a full feeling romance.

Lane is trying to figure out what is happening with her life when she starts getting closer and closer to her friend Matt. While renovating a bus together, they share movies, books and long car rides and start to grow closer.

This book had a lot of grief in it, and I wanted to somewhat shake Lane when she just kept saying she needed to work on it and then didn’t. Matt is sooo lovely in this book.