melissas_library 's review for:

My Life with the Walter Boys by Ali Novak

4.0

emotional lighthearted

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🐴📝 My Life with the Walter Boys 📝🐴

Genre: YA Romance 

Series: My Life with the Walter Boys #1 

Publisher: Sourcebooks 

Rating 4 ⭐️

*2025 Reread Review* I originally read this one Wattpad in my teen years and loved it. I had an obsession with the books of a girl moving into a massive family with many different brothers and from all the ones I read, this one was definitely up there for the best. 

Tropes:

• Forced Proximity 

• Love Triangle between Brothers

• Grief

• Small Town 

•Bad Boy x Good Girl

This one is nostalgic for me. Was it the best book? No. Was the writing great? Not really. Was it cringe at times? A big yes. Do I just love the characters and had a great time reading? Also yes. I just feel like I have known these characters forever and they are like my childhood friends.

First off Team Cole - Just had to put that out there. The love triangle in this series never felt like there was big choice between then two. It always felt like it was Cole but Jackie went after Alex as the safer option. Cole and her just had a deeper connection from the very beginning. 

I didn’t feel like we went deep enough into Jackie’s grief. I couldn’t imagine how hard it would be to overcome something like losing your entire family, having to pack up your life and everything you’ve ever known to move across the country with a bunch of strangers, but it felt like it was pushed under the rug and used more as a plot device to get her living with them. 

Overall, I feel like these characters and this book will always hold a place in my heart and while I know it isn’t the best book, I will always love it.