The best one yet!

That Woman Next Door by Harper Bliss

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


What do I say, I have just finished the book and it has left me sort of speechless, but not in a bad way!

Normally one knows to expect certain things in a lesbian romance novel, it sometimes seems that there is a kind of norm: fatal attraction through the roof, a certain back and forth then a stupid breaking up and finally a reunion and a happy end. After a while one knows most of the plot devices.

Imagine my surprise, when here from the start I felt like a neighbour watching a love affair unfold from a little distance, after all I, too, do live in Brittany and my best friend lives even more remotely than Olivia. What normally are plot devices is written here as things happening as they do in real life. Nothing even gives a hint of being contrived and the character development feels absolutely authentic.

But that is not surprising, once you read Harper’s afterword. Like in all of the best books you find, the author has left a piece of her soul here for you to find, a part of her heart, like the poems that Olivia left on Instagram. You close the book with a smile on your face and a couple of tears in your eyes for the beauty of it as well. From my point off view (not having read many of her books yet) it still feels, that this must be Harper’s best yet. Five stars are not enough!




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