American Angie Donovan has never wanted much. When you grow up getting bounced from foster home to foster home, you learn not to become attached to anything, anyone, or any place. But it only took her two days to fall in love with Australia. With her visa clock ticking, surely she can fall in love with an Australian—and get hitched—in two months. Especially if he’s as hot and funny as her next-door neighbor…
Jace Walters has never wanted much—except a bathroom he didn’t have to share. The last cookie all to himself. And solitude. But when you grow up in a family of seven, you can kiss those things goodbye. He’s finally living alone and working on his syndicated comic strip in privacy. Sure, his American neighbor is distractingly sexy and annoyingly nosy, but she’ll be gone in a few months...
Except now she’s determined to find her perfect match by checking out every eligible male in the town, and her choices are even more distracting. So why does it suddenly feel like he—and his obnoxious tight-knit family, and even these two wayward dogs—could be exactly what she needs?
My opinion:
I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review
The Aussie Next Door is a sweet contemporary romance that is focused on Jace, a man with high functioning autism, and Angie, a girl with a troublesome past.
The story is pleasant, slow-paced with a good plot and great characters. It has a humorous side, with the misbehaved dogs and the meddling family members. The romantic part had a slow build-up, they went from neighbors to friends and then they fell in love. I feel that their situation is quite relatable because on some level you'll find something you can connect with (or you have experienced).
The characters were both complicated but easy to love. Angie was like a traumatized kid who just wanted a home and someone to care for her. She had an adorable quirkiness and a love for helping everyone. Jace was the opposite. After what happened to him he chose to live as a hermit, focusing on his job trying to avoid any human contact.
In conclusion, it's an easy read that keeps your interest until the end. I fell in love with it and I will rate it with 4.5 stars.
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The Aussie Next Door
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