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Book Review of My Life Next Door

My Life Next Door
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First, I must admit that I do not like romances. There must be something special about them to appeal to me. This one didn't have it.

Yes, I can agree that a young woman who has only a sister and a mother might envy a big family like the one living next door to Samantha. And, a teenager falling for someone in a family that her mother didn't like is understandable, too. Add a friend who cheats her way through school but the scenario fell apart from there for me.

The mom who didn't care. There are many of those around. The egotistical boyfriend whose only desire links to politics? Yeh, I get it and I suppose there are people that shallow but what's in it for him? I understand driving away from a hit and run accident because you have been drinking but the ending to this one is downright hokey! Too long for the story, too predictable, and too shallow. What did I expect? After all, it's a romance and that's all.