--- product_id: 1219766 title: "Lola and the Boy Next Door" price: "Rp622530" currency: IDR in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.id/products/1219766-lola-and-the-boy-next-door store_origin: ID region: Indonesia --- # Lola and the Boy Next Door **Price:** Rp622530 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Lola and the Boy Next Door - **How much does it cost?** Rp622530 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.id](https://www.desertcart.id/products/1219766-lola-and-the-boy-next-door) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description desertcart.com: Lola and the Boy Next Door: 9780142422014: Perkins, Stephanie: Books Review: Top Book In Its Genre - Characters The characters in Lola are top notch. They’re all so real and vivacious in a way that I feel like I don’t see often in YA books. One of my problems with Anna and the French Kiss was that Anna seemed so one dimensional, so unexciting, too much of a Mary-Sue in many ways. She was just SUCH the prototypical teenage girl. Lola took that typical in-love teenage girl trope and threw it out the window. Lola has spunk, she has sass, and she has a killer sense of fashion. She has this energy to her character that blew me away and really takes you along for the ride. Lola manages to be vulnerable in the book, but also can sometimes be a huge jerk. She’s also the sort of character constantly observing and sometimes criticizing those around her. I absolutely loved Lola, I thought it was a ton of fun to read her perspective the whole book and I thought she had an incredibly strong and relatable voice. Lola’s parents, Nathan and Andy, were also excellent characters. Sometimes, I find the writing of gay couples in books to be cringeworthy. They sometimes feel like they’re unironic or disinegunine stereotypes, or their leading characteristic is the fact that they’re gay. Such was not the case with Nathan and Andy. Gay was not their primary characteristic, it was most definitely a secondary one. I thought the way that Perkins handled homosexuality in her book was eloquent. She talked about it without making it a statement. The fact that Lola had two dads was just a fact of life, and not something weird or special about her. It was normal, and I thought that was a great way to write it. In terms of the boys, they were both strong characters. Each had their merits and faults, each was attractive in their own way. They felt fully fleshed out and reasonably complex. Cricket was always more than just the subject of Lola’s affections. He had his own story, his own point of view. Not only did we feel for Lola when she was hurting, we also felt for Cricket when HE was hurting. I love a good love-interest in a book that is more than just a pretty boy, and Perkins hit the nail on the head with Cricket. Story In terms of plot, this book was only slightly special. I mean, it’s a pretty typical high-school contemporary love story. I did like the added twist of Lola clearly having feelings for another boy while being in a relationship with someone else. I feel like that story is not one I’ve seen often explored in teen romances. Usually it’s a single girl falls for a guy, not a taken one. I think it added interesting dimension. I definitely appreciated that about this novel. But still, even though there were somewhat unusual circumstances that made you unsure which boy to root for, it still often felt like a typical love story. The Feels In every review, I want to address how the book made me feel. Usually my feelings are how I gauge my rating of a book. Lola made me feel so many feels. Much like Anna, Lola takes you on this journey that reminds you how good being in love with someone is. It reminds you of the comfort in being with someone who means a lot to you, it reminds you of those electric feelings when someone you have deep affection for brushes your arm or bumps your shoulder. It brings you back to those moments of “should I or shouldn’t I” that inevitably happen at the beginning of a new relationship. That is one of my favorite things about this series by Perkins. It really brings you through those emotions and portrays them in this incredibly genuine, heartfelt way. You really are on a ride with the characters, and you feel everything with them. I just think that is SO LOVELY. I think it’s so amazing that an author can bring you back to memories and feelings from long ago. Alternatively, if you haven’t had a first love, it takes you on those feelings of wanting someone and not being able to have them. All of the emotions in this novel are so real and so genuine. That’s the primary reason it made me feel so many feels. It made me squeal with happiness and it made my heart sink with sadness. What a beautiful thing for a book to do to you. Perkins is truly gifted at portraying first love and does so better than any other author I’ve read. Many props to her for accomplishing that feat. Final Thoughts On the whole, I loved this book. I loved it so hard the whole time. I don’t think I fully know how to express my love for this book. I thought it was great and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I even stayed up way too late just to finish it last night. I read most of this book in one sitting, and it was pretty fast and easy to get through. It was such an overwhelmingly pleasant read, and I would highly recommend it to pretty much everyone. I will even go ahead and say that I liked Lola and the Boy Next Door even more than Anna and the French Kiss! I give Lola and the Boy Next Door: 5/5 Stars. It’s definitely one of the top books in it’s genre! Review: Lola and the Boy Next Door - Review: Lola and the Boy Next Door was such a fun read! It had a plot unlike any I've read, including having an eccentric girl and a nerdy boy -- which is something we rarely find in YA books. While I really enjoyed the book, I didn't like it as well as Anna and the French Kiss. I know most people have said they did, but it just didn't get to that level for me. In this book we meet Lola and get a glimpse into her non-traditional life. This part brings up one of the reasons why I love Stephanie's writing. She has the ability to jump out of the box and create characters that really work perfectly with the story. Lola has 2 fathers, and they were outstanding! They have a pretty big role in this book and they were the perfect parents for Lola. I could never imagine her with anyone else. Soon Lola realizes that her neighbors, Calliope and Cricket Bell, have moved back next door. When she sees them all she can remember is the painful past she had with the twins. She tries to ignore them but Cricket has a way of popping up everywhere. This is something she tries to accept but it brings a constant struggle with her older boyfriend Max. Lola Nolan was wonderful in so many ways. She was very different from the average teenage girl. That was something I absolutely loved about her character! She presented herself (through appearance) as something new each day. She wasn't afraid to take risks or be looked at strangely, she was simply unique. My only issue with Lola, and the only real issue with this book, was that I just couldn't connect with her as well as I would have hoped. Sometimes I just couldn't put together her feelings with her immediate actions. On the other hand, I adored Cricket in every way. He is just someone I'd want to go up to and pinch their cheeks! He was not someone you could really categorize in the typical sense. Sometimes in books we get either the "good guy" or "bad guy" vibe and immediately know how they will act, but I didn't see him as this. He was smart, cute, awkward, friendly -- and overall seemed much more real than many other male characters. I could really get a sense of how much he loved Lola. But it's not easy for Lola to forget the past and her boyfriend so she keeps Cricket at a bit of a distance. Max is the rocker-guy. He's 22, much older than Lola, and it's pretty easy to see from the start that they would never work out long-term. Max could be nice but would turn cruel in an instant. One of the best aspects of this book is that we get to see Anna and St. Clair again. St. Clair was hilarious and I really liked seeing what was going on with those 2 characters as well. Lola and the Boy Next Door is a wonderful story of growing up, finding love, and finding your true identity. Stephanie does an amazing job incorporating important lessons into a cute love story. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #756,134 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #116 in Teen & Young Adult Fiction on Dating & Sex (Books) #548 in Teen & Young Adult Contemporary Romance | | Book 2 of 3 | Anna and the French Kiss | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (2,757) | | Dimensions | 8.2 x 5.4 x 1 inches | | Edition | Reprint | | Grade level | 9 - 12 | | ISBN-10 | 0142422010 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0142422014 | | Item Weight | 2.31 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 338 pages | | Publication date | July 9, 2013 | | Publisher | Speak | | Reading age | 14 years and up | ## Images ![Lola and the Boy Next Door - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81sLotqstuL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Top Book In Its Genre *by A***S on February 19, 2015* Characters The characters in Lola are top notch. They’re all so real and vivacious in a way that I feel like I don’t see often in YA books. One of my problems with Anna and the French Kiss was that Anna seemed so one dimensional, so unexciting, too much of a Mary-Sue in many ways. She was just SUCH the prototypical teenage girl. Lola took that typical in-love teenage girl trope and threw it out the window. Lola has spunk, she has sass, and she has a killer sense of fashion. She has this energy to her character that blew me away and really takes you along for the ride. Lola manages to be vulnerable in the book, but also can sometimes be a huge jerk. She’s also the sort of character constantly observing and sometimes criticizing those around her. I absolutely loved Lola, I thought it was a ton of fun to read her perspective the whole book and I thought she had an incredibly strong and relatable voice. Lola’s parents, Nathan and Andy, were also excellent characters. Sometimes, I find the writing of gay couples in books to be cringeworthy. They sometimes feel like they’re unironic or disinegunine stereotypes, or their leading characteristic is the fact that they’re gay. Such was not the case with Nathan and Andy. Gay was not their primary characteristic, it was most definitely a secondary one. I thought the way that Perkins handled homosexuality in her book was eloquent. She talked about it without making it a statement. The fact that Lola had two dads was just a fact of life, and not something weird or special about her. It was normal, and I thought that was a great way to write it. In terms of the boys, they were both strong characters. Each had their merits and faults, each was attractive in their own way. They felt fully fleshed out and reasonably complex. Cricket was always more than just the subject of Lola’s affections. He had his own story, his own point of view. Not only did we feel for Lola when she was hurting, we also felt for Cricket when HE was hurting. I love a good love-interest in a book that is more than just a pretty boy, and Perkins hit the nail on the head with Cricket. Story In terms of plot, this book was only slightly special. I mean, it’s a pretty typical high-school contemporary love story. I did like the added twist of Lola clearly having feelings for another boy while being in a relationship with someone else. I feel like that story is not one I’ve seen often explored in teen romances. Usually it’s a single girl falls for a guy, not a taken one. I think it added interesting dimension. I definitely appreciated that about this novel. But still, even though there were somewhat unusual circumstances that made you unsure which boy to root for, it still often felt like a typical love story. The Feels In every review, I want to address how the book made me feel. Usually my feelings are how I gauge my rating of a book. Lola made me feel so many feels. Much like Anna, Lola takes you on this journey that reminds you how good being in love with someone is. It reminds you of the comfort in being with someone who means a lot to you, it reminds you of those electric feelings when someone you have deep affection for brushes your arm or bumps your shoulder. It brings you back to those moments of “should I or shouldn’t I” that inevitably happen at the beginning of a new relationship. That is one of my favorite things about this series by Perkins. It really brings you through those emotions and portrays them in this incredibly genuine, heartfelt way. You really are on a ride with the characters, and you feel everything with them. I just think that is SO LOVELY. I think it’s so amazing that an author can bring you back to memories and feelings from long ago. Alternatively, if you haven’t had a first love, it takes you on those feelings of wanting someone and not being able to have them. All of the emotions in this novel are so real and so genuine. That’s the primary reason it made me feel so many feels. It made me squeal with happiness and it made my heart sink with sadness. What a beautiful thing for a book to do to you. Perkins is truly gifted at portraying first love and does so better than any other author I’ve read. Many props to her for accomplishing that feat. Final Thoughts On the whole, I loved this book. I loved it so hard the whole time. I don’t think I fully know how to express my love for this book. I thought it was great and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I even stayed up way too late just to finish it last night. I read most of this book in one sitting, and it was pretty fast and easy to get through. It was such an overwhelmingly pleasant read, and I would highly recommend it to pretty much everyone. I will even go ahead and say that I liked Lola and the Boy Next Door even more than Anna and the French Kiss! I give Lola and the Boy Next Door: 5/5 Stars. It’s definitely one of the top books in it’s genre! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lola and the Boy Next Door *by J***E on April 13, 2012* Review: Lola and the Boy Next Door was such a fun read! It had a plot unlike any I've read, including having an eccentric girl and a nerdy boy -- which is something we rarely find in YA books. While I really enjoyed the book, I didn't like it as well as Anna and the French Kiss. I know most people have said they did, but it just didn't get to that level for me. In this book we meet Lola and get a glimpse into her non-traditional life. This part brings up one of the reasons why I love Stephanie's writing. She has the ability to jump out of the box and create characters that really work perfectly with the story. Lola has 2 fathers, and they were outstanding! They have a pretty big role in this book and they were the perfect parents for Lola. I could never imagine her with anyone else. Soon Lola realizes that her neighbors, Calliope and Cricket Bell, have moved back next door. When she sees them all she can remember is the painful past she had with the twins. She tries to ignore them but Cricket has a way of popping up everywhere. This is something she tries to accept but it brings a constant struggle with her older boyfriend Max. Lola Nolan was wonderful in so many ways. She was very different from the average teenage girl. That was something I absolutely loved about her character! She presented herself (through appearance) as something new each day. She wasn't afraid to take risks or be looked at strangely, she was simply unique. My only issue with Lola, and the only real issue with this book, was that I just couldn't connect with her as well as I would have hoped. Sometimes I just couldn't put together her feelings with her immediate actions. On the other hand, I adored Cricket in every way. He is just someone I'd want to go up to and pinch their cheeks! He was not someone you could really categorize in the typical sense. Sometimes in books we get either the "good guy" or "bad guy" vibe and immediately know how they will act, but I didn't see him as this. He was smart, cute, awkward, friendly -- and overall seemed much more real than many other male characters. I could really get a sense of how much he loved Lola. But it's not easy for Lola to forget the past and her boyfriend so she keeps Cricket at a bit of a distance. Max is the rocker-guy. He's 22, much older than Lola, and it's pretty easy to see from the start that they would never work out long-term. Max could be nice but would turn cruel in an instant. One of the best aspects of this book is that we get to see Anna and St. Clair again. St. Clair was hilarious and I really liked seeing what was going on with those 2 characters as well. Lola and the Boy Next Door is a wonderful story of growing up, finding love, and finding your true identity. Stephanie does an amazing job incorporating important lessons into a cute love story. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by Y***N on December 31, 2019* Todo perfecto vendedor muy amable --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.id/products/1219766-lola-and-the-boy-next-door](https://www.desertcart.id/products/1219766-lola-and-the-boy-next-door) --- *Product available on Desertcart Indonesia* *Store origin: ID* *Last updated: 2026-05-13*