Just Friends

A Novel

De: Haley Pham

Narrado por: Sura Siu

This heartwarming and swoon-worthy second chance romance about childhood friends reconnecting as adults is the highly anticipated debut novel from YouTube creator Haley Pham.

Blair and Declan were inseparable growing up—best friends who knew each other better than anyone else. But when an impulsive kiss took them from friends to something more, everything changed. Just as quickly as their romance started, one moment shattered it all, leaving them with nothing but heartbreak and silence.

Now, four years later, Blair is back in their coastal hometown of Seabrook to support her mom and care for her great-aunt Lottie as her health declines. To make ends meet, Blair applies to work at a coffee shop—only to discover it’s managed by none other than Declan. The boy she loved. The boy she lost. The boy who still makes her heart race.

As Blair’s path keeps crossing with Declan’s, old wounds resurface, secrets are revealed, and sparks reignite. But could their future ever be free of their past?

Told in dual timelines that unravel the magic and pain of first love, Just Friends is a moving, romantic story about second chances, the weight of dreams, and finding your way back to the people who feel like home.

A wonderful debut

It took me a few chapters to get the gist of the writing style but overall I found this story to be very endearing. I very much related to the grief Blair experiences and the hardship of keeping friendship post college. I enjoyed the internal conversations about being more honest with boundaries and having vulnerability with others.

This is a lovely story and as a debut it holds so much potential from this author.

I love this book

The book is fantastic. I will be recommending it to people. I will be reading again.