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  • Next to You

  • The Next Series, Book 2
  • By: Hannah Bonam-Young
  • Narrated by: Jenn Lee
  • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (44 ratings)

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Next to You

By: Hannah Bonam-Young
Narrated by: Jenn Lee
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Publisher's summary

Two friends (who are totally not in love) work together to renovate a school bus into a home.

Lane is in the middle of an identity crisis. Her friends are all partnered up, her career is leading nowhere, and simply put, she's not happy. So after a night out celebrating (drinking) on her birthday, she makes one hell of an impulsive purchase. A giant yellow forty-eight passenger school bus that she intends to make a home.

With little-to-no renovation experience but a large sum of inheritance money, Lane enlists the help of her friend Matt—a mechanic by trade, handyman by practice, and hottie by nature.

While their mutual attraction is undeniable, Matt and Lane have silently agreed that a friendship is the only thing that can ever exist between them. Matt's a total family guy with "settle down with me" tattooed across his forehead, whereas Lane is entirely commitment-averse.

So when Matt offers to help her with the bus and in the bedroom with no strings attached, Lane's feelings evolve faster than you can say "just good friends." But she soon discovers that in order to build something new, she has to first heal her past.

©2022 Hannah Bonam-Young (P)2023 Tantor
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Couldn’t love it more

Loved every second of this book, and fell in love with a the characters. Best book I read this year

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The story line and the voice/narrator’s emotive voice

loved this story! HBY knows how to write diverse characters and such sweet interactions that are realistic. I loved Mat and his story/culture that was incorporated. I loved all the family dynamics and the mental health representation!

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Matt is the best

Matt is literally the best. The patience, the swoony worthy moments, the confessions, and gosh those filthy moments. He is the complete package!

The narrators were very easy to listen to and I enjoyed them tremendously

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Best Romance Ever

I truly believe this just became my favorite romance novel. I absolutely love Lane & Matt & their messy, human story, Matt. Matt is just absolute magic.

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Laughing, crying and laughing again

This story was packed with all the feelings. I found myself laughing and crying too many time! My sweet matt 💕

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Love. Love! LOVE!

Matt & Lane are so dang adorable and fired hot 🔥 🥵 Their chemistry from the beginning is undeniable. As individual characters they are so raw, vulnerable, and real. I will be immediately listening to this again.

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absolute perfection!!!!!

this was my second time rereading next to you but first time on audio and I enjoyed it sm! the narration was beautiful! matt and lane forever <3

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Modern romance with Cassian/Nesta vibes

Matt is ranked amongst my favorite book boyfriends. I laughed, I cried, I fanned myself

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Teddy bear and anxious woman - a perfect combination

No notes! I loved the relationship the characters have with one another/built. I love this author!

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Cute

Next to You is the second book in the next series. It’s a friends to lovers book, which generally doesn’t work for me. After a New Year’s Eve kiss, Lane put Matt in the friend’s zone. Matt later helped Lane fix up a bus for Lane to live in (van life). Lane needed a lot of self-help work and Matt was an ultimate cinnamon roll hero, and loved her no matter what. Lane was the one who groveled, which worked. It was a beautiful story.

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