3.05k reviews for:

Next To You

Hannah Bonam-Young

4.12 AVERAGE

emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring 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
emotional funny hopeful informative 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⭐️

This was so sweet and the characters were so beautiful. It dealt with difficult themes like grief and mental health issues well and articulated these feelings extremely well. 

My personal favourite quote in the book was ‘sometimes it feels like everyone else has a script and I’m doing improv.’ 

It is a long book for what it is and I did get reader fatigue in the earlier half of the story but it is worth pushing through for sure. 




emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced
fast-paced

Hannah Bonam-Young strikes again.. Right in the feels.
emotional funny inspiring 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
emotional funny hopeful 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

This book was cute but I did get frustrated often with Lane being so dense and self sabotaging. Like i understand why but being stuck in her head was painful at times. I otherwise really enjoyed the characters and their love story. Matt is just perfect.