Never Just Friends
by Juliette Lazarelle
🌹 This romance with love triangle trope can be emotionally stressful at times. Explore the topics of jealousy and insecurity together with the main characters of Never Just Friends passion exclusive…
- Genre
- New Adult
- Chapters
- 300
- Status
- Completed
- Reads
- 19K
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Hanna is a seventeen-year-old girl who is navigating high school after losing both her parents. She has her brother Jacob and best friends Elordi and Emily by her side supporting her.
She now must try and find normalcy within all the chaos her life has thrown at her. But when the school’s queen bee Ciara singles Hanna out, because of Finn, Jacob’s best friend who has got his eyes on Hanna.
Hanna ends up being centered in a drama that includes grief as well as newfound attraction. She must find her voice and be stronger than ever.
Themes Discussed in Never Just Friends
😩 Bullying and jealousy
🩹 Grief and healing
❤️ Loyalty and friendship
🤥 Fake dating
🔺 Love triangle
Reasons to Read Never Just Friends
💃🏻 An emotionally rich story about a young woman who must find her worth
💞Exploration of love that we all went through at an early age
😭 Fake dating that provokes insecurity
Meet The Main Characters
👩🏻 Hanna
Hanna is 17 yet has already gone through a huge loss with her parent’s deaths. This young woman is an introvert who is reserved and looking to study and work hard. She is portrayed as strong, resilient, and eager to stay away from attention. But she soon finds herself plunged into the center of the story in a high school drama.
🧑🏻 Jacob
Jacob is Hanna’s brother who protects her and cares for her. He is also best friends with Finn who, unknown to Jacob, will take a liking to Hanna.
👩 Ciara
Ciara is the most popular girl in school and the antagonist of the story. She sees Hanna as a threat when it comes to the attention of Finn. This fuels jealousy which turns into anger and cruelty towards Hanna.
👦🏻 Finn
Finn is presented to the readers as a playful, sensitive, and charming young man. He gains the attention of Ciara as well as Hannah. His relationship with Hanna is more like a brother but as they get older, his feelings start to change.
🦋 Never Just Friends offers an insight into emotional growth with the highs and lows of teenage life. This book can be a great guide for young women who want to stay secure in their actions and remember their worth.
Never Just Friends synopsis
Seventeen-year-old Hanna is navigating her first year of high school while still grieving the loss of her parents. With her brother Jacob and best friends Emily and Elordi by her side, she's determined to survive the pressures of fitting in and finding her place.
But things get complicated when Ciara, the queen bee of the school, targets Hanna out of jealousy—especially over Finn, Jacob's best friend, who’s caught Hanna’s eye. As high school drama unfolds, Hanna must learn to stand up for herself while holding onto the people who matter most.
Read Never Just Friends – A New Beginning
I woke up today feeling… ugh. Seriously. My stomach felt like it was auditioning for a circus act. First day of high school. It feels like just two seconds ago I was in middle school, where life was relatively simple. Well, simpler than this impending chaos.
I glanced over at my closet, and there it was: the first day of high school outfit I’d spent hours obsessing over. What’s the point? No one’s going to care. I pulled it on anyway, hands shaking a little. I glanced at the picture of Mom and Dad on my nightstand. They’d be proud of me today. At least, I hope so. It’s been two years since they died, but it still feels like it was just yesterday. I took a deep breath. You’ve got this, Hanna. You’ve got Jacob.
“Hanna! Let’s go! We’re going to be late!” Jacob’s voice boomed from downstairs, breaking into my thoughts like he always does.
I hurried down, finding him leaning against the door like some chill action hero with his car keys twirling on his finger. Always so calm, so dependable, so Jacob.
“You ready for this?” he asked, raising an eyebrow, as if he already knew the answer (he did).
“As ready as I’ll ever be,” I muttered, trying to sound more confident than the human puddle of nerves I actually was.
“Hey, you’re gonna crush it. Just be yourself.”
“Be myself? Right,” I scoffed, rolling my eyes. “You mean the girl who trips over her own feet and somehow manages to embarrass herself within five minutes of walking into any room?”
Jacob laughed, then ruffled my hair like I was five. “Exactly. That’s my girl.”
Tropes
- Love Triangle
- Witty
- Enemies to Lovers
- Fake dating
- Romance
- School Romance