Hey
And welcome back this post is a review on My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick. If you haven't read My Life Next Door and want to be warned that there is spoilers in this post. If you want to keep reading then go ahead. Back in Febuary I brought three books CLICK HERE to see the other books I got. I also did a review on To All The Boys I Loved Before CLICK HERE
Oh Huntley, Huntley, Huntley what have you done to me.
My Life Next Door is simply brilliant. I'm not the fastest reader in the world but I didn't want to put the book down.
It's a perfect mixture of friendship, family and love.
Friendship in this book was done so well. It's different then the other kinds of friendships. The blend between Samantha and Nan was brilliant and when there friendship ends I like how a friendship forms between people who I didn't think would have a friendship.
Family in this book is touched on a lot. Samantha's family is really small. A single working mom with two teenage girls while The Garret's next door are a large family 8 kids and both parents one of which owns a hardware store it shows the difference between the two families really well. I like how the book shows that just because you are a part of a large family you can still have dreams and still work hard and be a family. Also you can be a single mom and have high expectations for your children but be so nïeve. I found Samantha's mom really snobby because of her job and because Samantha fell for a boy from a large family. What I would have liked to see is how Samantha and her sister reacted to their father come in to the picture. Samantha's mom has a relationship throughout the book but no one apart from her really likes the guy. I love how close the Garret's are to each other. They look out for each other, they don't sugar coat anything and are supportive of each other. They are so much more accepting of Samantha then Samantha's mother is towards Jase.
Love in the book is so refreshing. Samantha and Jase are one of my OTP's is that even a thing anymore. I love how much they are in to each other and how much Jase will help out Samantha and how guilty she feels when it's her own mom that puts her boyfriends dad in the hospital. I love how the relationship isn't perfect but they are perfect for each other. On the other hand you have the relationship between Grace Samantha's mom and Clay. Clay I found is really controlling. He wants to control the relationship between himself and Grace, between Samantha and Jase and between mother and daughter and when he doesn't get his way gets bratty about it and leaves. When he does leave I couldn't be any more happier. What I also liked about the love aspect of the book is that Jase is from such a large family yet the love is still there between the parents. The siblings love each other and care for each other so much that they feel comfortable to talk open and honestly with each other
Drama kept me on the edge of my seat and not wanting to put the book down. While dealing with so much in her life, her best friend who cheats all the time and only realizing in the SAT's, to her love life, to her mothers crazy and controlling boyfriend, her jobs, her friendships, living two lives the one she has always know to the one next door I think Samantha holds it together really well.
Overall this book is a great book. It really teaches you a lot on how much you can deal with in your life and that your life is yours and just because you grew up in a single parent household or with 7 brothers and sisters only you can decided how you want to live it. It show you that you can forgive someone for what ever they may have done and you can talk openly and honestly about topics that may affect someones life.
In books you want to picture the charters off the pages and if they were right in front of you moving around acting out right in front of you and this book does that for me. I could picture each person as if they were in the room with me.
Its a great spring/summer book. I highly recommend it.
Lauren
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