By Your Side: A Book That Will Always Be BY My Side
The Book “By your side” Is a down to earth novel that needs more love. This book made me think and made my growing love of romance stories grow even taller. So I thought, since yesterday was Valentine's day, I should review this book.
Summary
This book follows Autumn Collins. It’s winter break and Autumn and her group of friends are going to go on a trip together. Autumn is excited since this means she’ll have more time to spend with her big ol’ crush. But before her and her friends leave they stop by the library to finish up a project right before the library closes. That’s until Autumn goes to the bathroom and when she comes out the whole library is closed and nobody is around. Autumn panics know that she’s stuck in the library for at least 3 days. But it turns out Autumn isn’t the only person stuck in the library. In fact one of Autumn's classmates, Dax, is there too. Unfortunately Dax has a…Reputation (Taylor swift reference?), and more rumors about him then stars in the sky. So they are both less than pleased with being stuck with each other. But maybe it isn’t as bad as they both thought? Maybe they can actually be friends?
What I Liked
I loved the chemistry between Dax and Autumn. I thought that whenever they got along and were together, they were so adorable. I also liked Dax’s backstory and how interesting it was. At first I wasn’t the biggest fan of his for the first few chapters, but the more I learned about him and his past, the more I understood why he was the way he was. Finally, I liked how they handled Autumn’s Anxiety. It’s not every day you see a character with a mental health struggle and that topic is treated well. So it was great to see that.
What I Didn’t like
Sigh… I really hated Autumn’s friends. I know that some of them were played off to be jerks but… I hated basically all of them the whole book. The only one I could tolerate was Autumn’s crush Jeff, And he was in a coma for like 50% of the book. The fact that Autumn was scared to tell them about their anxiety and was scared to tell them that she was friends with Dax made me so mad. THESE PEOPLE ARE TOXIC RUN GIRL!!!
My last strife with this story is kinda a spoiler, so if you aren’t willing to get spoiled skip over the red highlighted text please.
I don’t really like how Dax and Autumn don’t get together till near the end of the story. That’s how it is for most of Kasie West’s books so I wasn’t too surprised, but I still wanted them to just get together, and then battle their issues. This might just be me and it’s not that big of a deal, it’s just what I think, that’s all.
My Opinion
I liked this book. I liked the two main characters and how they interacted. I loved how the serious issues were used in the plot and how they were created. It really made me feel for the characters and their struggles. I’d rate this book a 8\10. There were a few things they should’ve changed, a few chargers that should’ve been cut but besides that I’d recommend this book to people who are interested in getting to the romance genre and are willing to read a book with lots of plot.
Where To Buy
…Or Your local library
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