The Boy Most Likely To

by Huntley Fitzpatrick

The romantic companion to My Life Next Door—great for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han.

With bonus Jase and Samantha content in the paperback!

Tim Mason was The Boy Most Likely To find the liquor cabinet blindfolded, need a liver transplant, and drive his car into a house

Alice Garrett was The Girl Most Likely To . . . well, not date her little brother’s baggage-burdened best friend, for starters.

For Tim, it wouldn’t be smart to fall for Alice. For Alice, nothing could be scarier than falling for Tim. But Tim has never been known for making the smart choice, and Alice is starting to wonder if the “smart” choice is always the right one. When these two crash into each other, they crash hard.

Told in Tim’s and Alice’s distinctive, disarming, entirely compelling voices, this novel is for readers of The Spectacular Now, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, and Paper Towns.

• ISBN10: 0147513073
• ISBN13: 9780147513076
• Publish Date: 6 September 2016 (first published 18 August 2015)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Speak
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 448
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780147513076

Reviews

[ladygrey]

This wasn’t quite what I expected. I think I thought it would be a bit lighter, a little more Kasie West. But it’s not. The language was off-putting. And the conflict complication was not light-hearted. This is kind of a serious book.

Which isn’t bad. It’s an enjoyable book, I think mostly because the full cast of characters is amusing. It definitely skews older (even though the characters are 17 and 19). But the Garrett family dynamic pulls the story and the characters together well. And Tim and Alice work well as main characters because each are interesting enough but themselves to carry the portion of the story they’re expected to (Tim more than Alice which works out well).

If it weren’t for the language I think I would have liked it more.

[liz089]

I loved to read about the Garretts again, such a great and loving family !! They make me feel right at home :) Such a lovely book, full of romance and family. I really hope she will write more about them !!

[bumblingbookworm]

This review was originally posted on The Bumbling Bookworm

For those of you who may not know, The Boy Most Likely To is the much anticipated sequel to My Life Next Door (Review), where we were first introduced to the Garretts through their neighbour Samantha. Tim Mason and Alice Garrett were peripheral characters then but they well and truly hit centre stage here. After finishing this book, all I could say was "Oh Tim." Oh Hon, as Patsy would say! I wanted to go right back to the start and read it all over again. Needless to say, Huntley Fitzpatrick has swept me away and made me fall in love with Tim and the Garretts all over again.

Check out the rest of my review here!

[Bianca]

And that’s the thing . . . you let people in . . . they’re there. They’re a goddamn part of you. Except that at any time—soon, they could chip right off and float away.

[Rowena]

I really liked this book.

I didn’t re-read the first book before I jumped into this one so I didn’t remember all of the minor characters from that book until I dug deeper into this one. Tim Mason was Sam’s oldest friend from My Life Next Door and he was the party boy that was always getting into trouble but I remembered that I didn’t hate him. He proved to be a good friend to Sam and so I knew that I was going to like him. I just wasn’t prepared for how much I was going to love him.

I loved his crush on Alice. I loved his flirty spice attitude where Alice was concerned. I loved seeing his feelings for Alice grow into something bigger and stronger than even he was prepared for. And I loved seeing Alice crush and then grow those very same feelings…for Tim.

The entire time that I was reading this book, my heart went out to Tim. He had a domineering father, a mother who was self-involved and a sister who was crazy in her own way but at Tim’s core, he loved his family…and I loved seeing them rally behind him when he needed them most. Things just kept falling at Tim’s door and I didn’t think I could hold up under everything that was piling up but Tim surprised me with how big his heart was.

The whole thing with Cal broke my heart but Fitzpatrick did a great job of fixing that heart because the whole story ended the way that it was supposed to end. Seeing Tim connect with Cal and seeing their bond form from beginning to end made this story that much more heartwarming.

I really liked that even with everything that both kids were going through, the romance between Tim and Alice didn’t suffer. At least in my opinion. I adored their romance. It wasn’t traditional and it wasn’t perfect but in the end, it worked itself out. I loved that both Tim and Alice were able to be there for each other when nobody else could or knew how. I loved the support that they got from each other. Alice and her experience with kids and Tim with his experience with the rich. I loved that they worked their issues out and that being together made them stronger as individuals.

This was a great story from beginning to end. I enjoyed seeing the Garretts (all of them) again and it was nice to see Jase and Sam still going strong. Fitzpatrick did a great job of making me love the hell out of both Alice and Tim and I definitely recommend this book to fans of the contemporary YA romance but also of the first book in this series. It was a great and entertaining read. Loved it!

Grade: 4.5 out of 5

[nightingalereads]

3.5 stars

Not as good as the first book, but still enjoyable and very well-written. I loved that the book centered around Tim, since I really liked his character in the first book.