Sam tolerates her mother’s boyfriend and campaign manager, Clay, because he makes her happy, but his character traits become more well known as the story progresses. The twist and turns that the story takes is not something a reader can predict from the beginning. The dramatic turn made me like the book all the more because whenever I can not anticipate something, I become very intrigued and emotionally invested in the storyline and the outcome. The twist that she incorporated was not something that I saw coming. As someone who reads quite a bit, I can usually predict storylines rather well. I thought it was going to be a rather stereotypical romance but Huntley Fitzpatrick threw a few twists and turns in there that I did not anticipate. With a few little bumps in the beginning, Sam and Jase, one of the boys next door, strike up a sweet romance. After all this time, Sam has never spoken to any of them, until one summer afternoon. Sam’s mother always warned her not to get involved with them, looking down on their way of life – having so many children would certainly be a strain on their income and be troublesome. She was envious of their closeness and wanted to be a part of something similar. Sam had been watching the family next door for years and learned abut them from a far. I was so engrossed in the storyline, I had to see what was going to happen. By around the 200-page mark, I could not put the book down. Fitzpatrick incorporated romance, moral dilemmas, and friendship dynamics. But, as the story progressed, it moved past the teen romance element and into something much more intense. I LOVED it! When I first started reading My Life Next Door, I thought it was going to be reminiscent of Judy Bloom’s Forever or similar to The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle. My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick was a book that caught me by surprise.
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