The Boy Most Likely To

By Huntley Fitzpatrick

3.5/5

The Boy Most Likely To is the sequel to Fitzpatrick’s My Life Next Door and it follows Tim, Jase and Sam’s best friend, and Alice, Jase’s brother and the second oldest of the Garrett siblings. At the end of My Life Next Door, Tim was trying to turn his life around by stopping taking drugs and alcohol. The Boy Most Likely To picks up a few weeks after My Life Next Door ends.

I enjoyed this book a lot more than My Life Next Door because I feel as though a lot more happened. In My Life Next Door we just followed Jase and Sam as they got to know each other and develop their relationship which, although is enjoyable to some extent as it is a YA contemporary it can get quite repetitive. I thought The Boy Most Likely To was considerably more interesting and I enjoyed the experience of reading it a lot more. I loved seeing how Tim’s character developed as he was one of my favourites from My Life Next Door and after finishing TBMLT, he is definitely my favourite character. I really liked how much he matured throughout the book but it was a realistic transition that many teenagers will go through in their life. I really liked Alice’s character; she is incredibly fiery and independent but would do anything for her family. She is a character I would love to be friends with but we would definitely have more than our fair share of arguments because we are so similar! I enjoyed seeing Jase and Sam again and the rest of the Garrett family; I don’t read many books with a strong family dynamic and so the Garrett family are one of the main reasons why I enjoyed these books so much.

There is so much more I could say about this book but I don’t want to reveal anymore as it would really spoil the book for those who haven’t read it. However, despite greatly enjoying this book, I did only give it a 3.5/5 because it isn’t the best contemporary I’ve ever read and although I will probably read it again next summer, I’m not in any rush to read it again so soon.