Worlds Away From You

by Charlotte Mednick

Seventeen-year-old Robin Montgomery lives in Colorado but wants nothing more than to meet her long-term online boyfriend Mason. When he starts pressuring her to move to London and be with him instead of following her dreams and dancing on Broadway, she starts to realise first love isn't as easy as she first thought. High School quarterback and king of the popular crowd, Nathaniel Lewis, has had enough drama to last a lifetime. With a cheating girlfriend, tragedy in the family and a pressure to succeed and get a football scholarship, all he wants is to have an easy summer working his dish washing job. Little did they know their lives would come crashing together when they ended up becoming next-door neighbours in the summer before senior year. A story about following your dreams, listening to your heart, and realising not everyone is who you think they are.

289 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 29, 2020

About the author

Charlotte Mednick grew up in Ilfracombe, North Devon in England then went on to receive a First-Class BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism degree from Solent University in 2017. She continued in education, receiving a Master’s Degree in Journalism and Multimedia Communications and now resides in Southampton with her fiancé.

She has always loved YA fiction and enjoyed fiction writing in her spare time, having written fanfiction from a young age then gone on to start creating her own original stories. She’s also passionate about musical theatre and is a singer, performing with some of Southampton’s local musical groups and uploading videos on YouTube since 2014.

Reviews

[Shelley · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved everything about this book.
It was absolutely wonderful, the character’s were so relatable and lovable....apart from one. Must read to find out who!

[Izzy Watson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely adored this book and couldn’t put it down! I read it in two days!!

Wonderful story and resonates with today’s internet culture. Bravo!

[Ebbie Belles · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short, sweet, and relatable is how I would best describe this debut novel.

Robin Montgomery is SO relatable as a teenager just doing her thing in high school. Not a popular girl but not unpopular either. She focuses on herself, dancing, and her future. She finds comfort in friends online since she hasn’t met many people with her same interests in real life. She’s been dating a guy she met online for three years, Mason, but has never met him in real life. Then the high school quarterback Nathaniel moves in next door with his family and everything changes. Robin has a bright future but where and with who?

I felt myself getting into a reading funk and this book pulled me out of it! Such an easy and fun read. One of the positives I enjoyed and took away from this book was Robin’s relationship with her parents being so open and healthy. I hope that I can have that kind of relationship with my daughter one day as well.

Highly recommend this read for anyone interested in YA Romance!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Mollie Frances · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was impossible to put down. The characters personalities really come through with the writing and you end up falling in love with (most) of the characters.

The storyline flows really well and had a plot twist that blew my mind. I always go back to this book for a comfy, lovely read.

[Sophie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a lovely YA Romance read about the wonderful power and dangers of the internet. Lovely characters, the passion for musical theatre shines through and was such an easy comfort read 🥰