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I love a solid romance story. In several book groups, I saw plenty of people recommend If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin. It has well over 30,000 reviews on Amazon and over 250,000 on Goodreads, so I included this book on my 24 books in 2024.
If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin
If he had been with me, everything would have been different…
Autumn and Finn used to be inseparable. But then something changed. Or they changed. Now, they do their best to ignore each other.
Autumn has her boyfriend Jamie, and her close-knit group of friends. And Finn has become that boy at school, the one everyone wants to be around.
That still doesn’t stop the way Autumn feels every time she and Finn cross paths, and the growing, nagging thought that maybe things could have been different. Maybe they should be together.
But come August, things will change forever. And as time passes, Autumn will be forced to confront how else life might have been different if they had never parted ways…
My Review of If He Had Been With Me Book
If He Had Been With Me has a good storyline. However, there are times when the story gets a bit boring. It could be because the story didn’t always follow the storyline like it should have. It’s like we skipped to different events unexpectedly.
It’s a typical high-school love story, but it’s also one about unrequited love. This is mainly because the characters didn’t tell each other how they felt when they had the chance. Sometimes, teenagers struggle with expressing themselves to the point that they miss out on opportunities to have authentic relationships. This book makes one think about how they express their feelings to those they love.
While you may know what is coming in the book, you still hope that If He Had Been With Me will give you a different ending. If you decide to join the thousands of us who have read this book, be sure you have tissues when you get to the end!
This was a solid read, and I still recommend it. If you need a tear-jerker, this is it.
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