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3.06k reviews for:

Next To You

Hannah Bonam-Young

4.12 AVERAGE

emotional funny inspiring 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
funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
lighthearted fast-paced

Book overview and review:
‘Next To You’ by @authorhannahby
46th book of the year
lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

3.5⭐
emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

🚌 Next To You by Hannah Bonam-Young 🚌

MY RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 

Lane’s stuck—single, unhappy, and going nowhere fast. After a wild birthday night, she impulsively buys a giant yellow school bus to turn into a home.
With no renovation skills but plenty of inheritance money, she enlists Matt—her handy, charming friend. Sparks fly, but commitment-phobic Lane and family-man Matt have agreed to keep it strictly friends. It could never work… right?

This book was cute and had the HBY charm I’ve come to expect. It did take me a while to get into the story, and I didn’t connect with the characters as much as I have in HBY’s other books until about 60% of the way through. I loved the last 1/3 of this book, and did enjoy the first 2/3 overall. The writing and characters were funny, and this was mostly lighthearted and had an overall hopeful tone with a fun storyline. 

Read this if you like: 
  • friends to lovers
  • family drama
  • messy-ish FMCs 

Vibes: 🚍🖌️🔧👰🏼‍♀️✈️

Song that matches the vibe: Beyond by Leon Bridges 

Full review including content warnings on my StoryGraph. 

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad 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

Oh my, I love love love Lane and Matt. I love a yearning MMC and he DELIVERS. I so want to visit his family’s home, it sounds so full of love and so peaceful. I’m so glad Lane and Liz reconnected and get to share the sibling love. I laughed and I cried and finished reading with my heart feeling full.
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
hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Beautifully messy.