Girl Next Door

A Novel

De: Rachel Meredith

Narrado por: Jeremy Carlisle Parker

“Girl Next Door is everything I love. Complex characters, a prickly love interest, secrets, yearning, questionable decisions, and that glorious HEA. A tender, funny, sexy novel.” — Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn't Care

"Witty, sexy, and the best kind of messy, Girl Next Door is my favorite brand of beautifully chaotic and honest romance. I devoured it in one sitting, and you better believe I'll be picking up whatever Meredith writes next." — Dahlia Adler, award-winning author of Cool for the Summer

In this charming debut rom-com, a young freelancer returns to her suburban hometown to uncover why her childhood next door neighbor’s bestselling book appears to be an epic love story about the two of them.

When MC Calloway’s best friend Joe, an editor at the notorious gossip website Jawbreaker, calls her in for an emergency meeting, MC is unprepared for how frantic he is. But when he shows her a copy of Girl Next Door, the steamy, bestselling rom-com taking the literary world by storm, written under a pen name, points to one of the women on the front cover, and says, “that's you,” its MC who begins to panic.

Joe is convinced that the author is Nora Pike, MC's prickly, childhood next-door neighbor, and their former high school classmate – and MC knows he’s right, since the book describes actual events that happened their senior year, down to the tiniest details. But in the book, the characters based on MC and Nora are desperately in love, rather than the awkward acquaintances MC remembers being in real life.

Joe begs MC to go home undercover and get the scoop on Nora. That’s the last thing MC wants to do, especially for an assignment that seems morally dubious at best, but she reluctantly agrees, knowing Joe is desperate to break a big story. Crashing in her childhood home with her older brother Conrad (now married to MC's secret high school crush, Gabby), MC begins untangling truth from fiction, trying to get close to Nora, who is just as hot and prickly as ever – and now suspicious of MC to boot. But the more involved she gets with Nora, the more it becomes clear they’re both hiding secrets . . . and MC realizes she might be in over her head.

Perfect for readers of Delilah Green Doesn't Care and Book Lovers, Girl Next Door is a delicious debut brimming with romance, humor, and heart.

Very enjoyable!!

Very enjoyable!! Hoping author writes another book!! Loved MC & Nora!! I would recommend this book!!

Great storyline

I love romance novels like this, the twist and turns. It could’ve used a little more heat

Cute + good banter

Very cute story and worth the listen, but I do wish it had more heat and togetherness

Unrequited Teenage Feelings

Nora is a very complicated person and hard to get to know. She had such a crush on her next door neighbor MC, and while others in HS noticed it, the person it was towards never did. Probably because MC had feelings for another, who became her brothers girlfriend.

9 years later a book comes out that has to do with a fictional love affair between the two. MC would have never known about it if it wasn't for her best friend Joe who figured out the similarities in the book. He begs MC to investigate the old neighbor Nora to write an article about the somewhat anonymous writer.

Narration is very good, and this book would be R rated when it comes to mature content.

Interesting premise but lacking in execution.

I really wanted to like this one but it's like the basic idea and story are just disconnected. There are cute ideas and interesting scenes, but they're like puzzle pieces forced together, whether they fit or not, with some missing and with no mind to the overall picture.
A lot of the characters are unlikeable enough that you wonder why they're supposed to be friends, or why they're suppose to be attracted to one another. The author seems to know where they want the story to go, just didn't bother making it seems natural or logical -things happen because that's what happens in these stories, and not as a result of actions taken by the characters.
And the main character is called "MC" which would have been cute if anything was down with it -you're premise is that a novel was written about her! Why not include either some meta humor or commentary on romance novels?
The performer did a great job, the setup was brilliant, the execute just fumbled in my opinion.
I'd only recommend if you're starved for sapphic content and have worked your way through everything else. I wouldn't necessarily avoid the author -there ARE some good ideas there- I'd just scrutinize the reviews a little more before picking up another one of her works.