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Next To You

Hannah Bonam-Young

4.12 AVERAGE

jamiefilio_19's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional funny 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

cami_g's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted relaxing 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

Hiiii c’était trop bien, Matt i love you !!!
Beaucoup mieux que le T1 que j’avais quand même beaucoup aimé

kaitb15's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny 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

Content Warnings

tiff_2007's review against another edition

3.5

emotional funny medium-paced

I throughly enjoyed meeting so many new characters. I appreciated the dabble into anxiety and PTSD. I did feel like this book was less exciting and swoon worthy as the other books I have read from Hannah. I did enjoy the narrators. They did a great job on the audiobook.

jsorv28's review against another edition

4.0

emotional 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

kai256's review against another edition

3.5

emotional 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

Like all of Hannah's books, this one has amazingly well-developed characters, accessible writing, and a focus on mental health and actually being in a good place for a relationship. I enjoyed it and read it in two days.

That said, it was my least favorite of her books. I don't care for a friends-with-benefits situation when it's clear the people want more and are pretending they don't.

It was also obvious from the beginning that the FMC wasn't in a healthy place for a relationship. A friend even explicitly told her that she needed grief therapy. But she didn't start working on herself until the 80% mark, which made it really hard to root for her during the middle half of the book. That last 20%, though. That was amazing.