The Boy Most Likely To: The best intense small town YA BookTok romance novel for 2023

Addictive, swoonful, good-girl-meets-bad-boy romance. Perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover, Jenny Han and Elle Kennedy’s The Good Girl Complex. Alice Garrett was The Girl Most Likely To … well, not date her little brother’s baggage-burdened best friend, for starters. For Tim, it wouldn’t be smart to fall for Alice. For Alice, nothing could be scarier than falling for Tim. But Tim has never been known for making the smart choice, and Alice is starting to wonder if the “smart… choice is always the right one. When these two crash into each other, they crash hard … From the author of My Life Next Door – one of GoodReads Top YA Reads of All Time – fall in love all over again with the romance ‘most likely’ to win your heart. In this piece of contemporary fiction, the themes of family, friendship, and teenage social dynamics are explored in a compelling coming-of-age narrative. The story is a testament to the complexities of teenage life and the bonds of sibling relationships. For fans of Ali Novak (My Return to the Walter Boys), K. L. Walther (A First Time for Everything), Jennifer Lynn Barnes (The Brothers Hawthorne), Kasie West (Maybe This Time), and Christina Lauren (The Paradise Problem). HarperCollins 2023