Review: Lola and the Boy Next Door
- Melissa Artobello
- Jul 2, 2015
- 2 min read
RATING: 3/5
After reading Anna, this book was a little disappointing to me. Definitely not as good as Anna, but I also just didn't like it as a stand alone. The characters and the plot were annoying and predictable.
Lola was just this really immature, weird girl to me. She's 17 so it's expected that she's going to act childish at times but I just got annoyed reading about her boy issues and how she couldn't make up her mind between her boyfriend and her neighbor (who's name is Cricket, which is also weird). Also, her dressing up in costume everyday was kinda strange. Like, you do you girl, but you're almost an adult, start dressing and acting like one.
The whole situation was also just ridiciulously stupid. She has a boyfriend but the neighbor boy moves back in and she's trying to deny that she has feelings with him when it's as clear as day to EVERYONE that she still does. So she's battling all these feelings and fighting with her boyfriend all the time because she's lying about her feelings for this boy. She also just can't make up her mind on anything and it gets tiring hearing her internal monologue.
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*SPOILER*
Of course, she ends up breaking up with her boyfriend and ends up with Cricket, which I predicted before I even started the book. Once the breakup happened and she was finally getting with Cricket, it got disgustingly cheesy. Cricket tells her this story about how he'd wish for her every night on the stars and he made her this trinket that has the stars and moon and at the end of the book she says "...with the boy who gave me the moon and stars" and the whole time I'm just barfing from how sappy it is. I think I'm just sick of happily ever afters because it's just not that realistic.
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I think the best part of the book was the fact that Anna and St. Clair were in it. They work with Lola at a movie theater and it's nice hearing about them since they are such a power couple and I love them. I just wish there was more of them.
I also liked that Lola had two dads and lived in the Castro in San Francisco. I like reading books that incorporate gay/lesbian characters.
Overall, it was an okay companion book. I'm hoping Isla and the Happily Ever After is better. Although from that title, I'm going to expect just as much cheesiness, if not, more.
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