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

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

This one was such a doozy. I couldn't help but root for Macon and Lennon. I hated how things kept getting in the way, and they had almost all the odds against them. By the end of this book, things are flipped upside down compared to where we first started this book. So Macon is the bad boy/best friend's older brother while Lennon is a kind of a sheltered good girl whose father is hardly around due to his job, but he lets her stay home for weeks/months on her own. Sometimes, she would stay at her best friend's house so she wouldn't be alone. Now, this friendship was always a little toxic. She always had to have everything her way and would make Lennon bend over backward. But Lennon would take it. The only thing she really stood her ground on was Macon, and even then, she lied for most of the book and only came clean after they got caught. By this point, her dad had married his mom, so now they're like step-siblings. The book goes through many tropes and, unfortunately, ends on a cliffhanger, but it does get answered in the next book.
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