A review by lorena3585
The Love of My Next Life by Brit Benson

2.0

i’m not sure what trope the author had in mind while writing this, but if it was anything close to enemies to lovers, she failed. this is kind of like a bully to lover type of trope (if there is anything of this kind). the book is like a 2013 harry styles bad boy fanfic, but not in a good way and more in a badly written, annoying characters way. i definitely can’t say that i loved it but i guess it wasn’t absolutely terrible. this back and forth between macon and lennon was so annoying because we didn’t even get two chapters before they were fighting again or messing things up. i truly despised claire throughout the book because to me it seemed like lennon was just someone she could use as her personal babydoll to control and have do things for her own benefit. macon was a dick most of the book, even after he was all in love and obsessed with lennon (which to be honest i don’t understand because he was still mean to her). lennon’s dad is also extremely annoying because this girl is traumatised after what happened to her mom but he still kind of emotionally neglects her. did i love this book? no. will i read the sequel? absolutely.

p.s. for like the first 100 pages i kept pronouncing macon like bacon in my mind and then settled for mason (btw i JUST found out that it is indeed pronounced like bacon so i’ll add andrea to the list of characters i hate because WHY would you name your kid that)