Title: Lola and the Boy Next Door (Anna and the French Kiss #2)
Author: Stephanie Perkins
Publisher: Speak 2012
Genre: YA Romance
Pages: 338
Rating: 4/5 stars
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Lola Nolan is a budding costume designer, and for her, the more outrageous, sparkly, and fun the outfit, the better. And everything is pretty perfect in her life (right down to her hot rocker boyfriend) until the Bell twins, Calliope and Cricket, return to the neighborhood. When Cricket, a gifted inventor, steps out from his twin sister's shadow and back into Lola's life, she must finally reconcile a lifetime of feelings for the boy next door.
My last book of 2020! I loved Anna and the French Kiss and hoped the sequel would be just as good. It was a very good book, but not great. I loved Cricket and the whole boy-next-door trope. It gets me every time. I loved the appearances of Anna and St. Clair. But I wasn’t keen on Lola and Max as her other relationship. I was on the edge of my seat the entire book hoping that Lola wouldn’t make terrible decisions. Turns out that she just made some bad decisions. Part of my problem is that I’m reading this young adult romance as an adult woman with teenagers. It made me so nervous and I completely empathized with Lola’s dads. I imagine that I wouldn’t have been so nervous if I read this as a teenager. Overall a good lighter read to end my year.
Anna and the French Kiss
#2 Lola and the Boy Next Door
#3 Isla and the Happily Ever After
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