Thank to NetGalley. Chelsea Bobulski did an amazing job in writing All I Want For Christmas is the Girl Next Door. This reminded me so much of It's A Wonderful Life. I highly recommend reading this book. It will make you feel. I am giving this a 5 out of 5 stars. I am leaving this review voluntarily.

This book is so cute. This is the perfect christmas/holiday book. Even though I am not personally in high school, it was very relatable to what high schoolers go through. A lot of books don't understand high schoolers but this is one of the most relatable books I have read. It was very feel good and yet at the same time addressed issues. I liked the fact that it wasn't all about how when a couple gets together everything is perfect. I would recommend it to anyone who wants a feel good christmas or holiday story and people who love hallmark christmas movies.

All I Want for Christmas is the Girl Next Door is a YA book told in similar fashion to It's A Wonderful Life and When You Wish Upon A Star. Graham, a high school student in Christmas, VA, is in love with the girl next door Sarah. Unfortunately, she's been dating his best friend. Making a wish one night on a shooting star, he wakes up the next day with the last two years completely changed. He's dating Sarah, his best friend is a shadow of the guy he knew, and for some unexplained reason Graham feels a pull towards Piper, the new girl in town working at the local bookstore with him. He thought his dream was to be with Sarah but they're like a nightmare together. How can this be happening? This is a cute, clean YA story but the characters were a little frustrating at times. It was a little longer than necessary but the ending was decent.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest feedback.

Graham has been in love with only one girl: Sarah. He’s been in love with her before he even knew what it meant. She’s the only one for him. The only problem is that they aren’t together and never have been. They were best friends growing up and two years ago, Graham’s other best friend started dating Sarah and they’ve been together ever since.

He is so broken hearted seeing them together that he plans to move away for college.

But one night he slips and tells Sarah how he feels. It’s awkward at best.
He makes a wish on a star that Sarah was with him instead.

He wakes up the next morning and it’s an alternate reality. Everything else seems mostly the same but he is the one with Sarah and they have been together for two years.

At first he’s excited, he finally has everything he ever wanted. But then he notices Sarah doesn’t seem as happy with him as she did with his friend. He also finds that maybe he’s having a negative impact on her life.

In addition to this, he starts spending a lot of time with the new girl Piper. She was hired to work in the same bookstore as him and they start spending a lot of time together. It’s weird timing and confusing to him, he suddenly has Sarah as his girlfriend why is he thinking about Piper?

I do agree with the reviewers who found it cringey how Graham acted when Piper was in a skirt. It makes him sound like someone much much older, not a teenage boy.. She’s a cheerleader yet Graham nearly looses his cool because he can see her kneecap. Now, I read this as an arc, maybe the author had second thoughts and removed this part.
I enjoyed the ending of the book significantly more. I thought this book was going to be mainly about Graham learning to move on from Sarah but it’s more than that. I really appreciated the twist towards the end of what happens in the alternate reality.

Ultimately I thought this was a sweet, entertaining story and I look forward to reading more from the series.

I got to read an early ebook edition from NetGalley. Thanks!

This was a cute book. Definitely predicable but I think it’s a nice light book to read during the holidays.

It’s not often that I find myself stuck in a teenage boy’s mind, but here I am with All I Want for Christmas is the Girl Next Door. Graham is your average teenager living in small-town Virginia. However, this town isn’t just any town, but a literal one named Christmas. With Christmas in the air 365 days of the year, Graham is itching to get out.

But that may also mostly stem from his unrequited crush on his best friend, Sarah Clarke, who lives next door.

I love the angst initially as we follow Graham’s longing whenever he sees his best friend and Sarah together. Who of us (mostly) hasn’t ever had an unrequited crush? But with his deep heartbreak after coming to the inevitable realization that Sarah may never choose him, he wishes upon a star in the sky and wakes up the next day in some warped alternate reality. He has been dating Sarah for the last two years, not his best friend.

I also appreciate the message that comes with this story as Graham navigates his new reality. Soon, he realizes that perfection isn’t all that he thought it would be. What if he had fallen in love with the idea of Sarah Clarke instead of who she really was? What if he spent so much time focusing on her and his longing for this relationship that he closed his mind off to the very real girl he was always meant to be with? Maybe love, the real kind of love meant for the long run, is known not by the feelings we initially get, but by how much we make one another shine to our brightest potentials.

This was a fun Christmas story with a lesson wrapped in a bow. It’s light, cute, and the kind of book to curl up with by the fireplace while it’s snowing outside.

I don't usually give a book a 1-star rating, but this one was something else entirely. I straight up despised the main character, and honestly I felt like everyone in the book was too good for him. This title read like fan fiction of a made-for-TV holiday movie, or worse. Graham makes his wish, and then even when the reader thinks he's becoming more aware of his selfishness, he takes it to a whole other level. Because of his wish, he's ruined all these other people's lives! It was a read in narcissism, and sexualizing teenage girls. Legitimately the only reason I finished this book was because I was trying to make my reading goal for the year.

This book was so Christmassy! Basically, the main character, Graham, gets one of those holiday wishes, but with no warning; his life just changes overnight. All of a sudden, he goes from watching his best friend dating the girl he's in love with (for the past two years) to dating her himself (apparently, also for the past two years). It's like a dream come true, but is it really what he wants?

I thought this book was pretty interesting with the message that we don't always want what we think we want. Graham does have some ideas that might be based on a Christian faith, but it's not so overwhelming that I'd be quick to peg this as a Christian romance; it is enough that I'd peg it as possibly a faith based romance, though. The book also uses the secret love trope in an interesting way by expediting the process through a wish.

A cute holiday story that definitely gets you into the atmosphere and Christmas vibes. I loved the wishing on a shooting star element because I feel like it’s usually just in movies. I really enjoyed Piper as a character and the bookstore as the backdrop of the beginning of their friendship. I honestly would have preferred more bookstore scenes between the two of them because it gave such cozy academia vibes. This whole book had very cute Hallmark Christmas movie elements but the ending was way too rushed and a little chaotic for me. Overall though, a fun festive read!

It was so cute. Lots of christmasy vibes. The romance was adorable and it was a very fast read. I enjoy the authors writing and I can’t wait to read the rest of the books in this christmas series.

Graham wishes on a star that he was dating his best friend, Sarah Clarke, who he is has been in love with since she moved in next door. However, Sarah started dating his best friend for the past two years. Until Graham wishes on a star and he wakes up in a different world where he has been dating Sarah for the past two years!

I loved how this story teaches you a few lessons about life and knowing what is important. Some parts were a bit off putting, for example when Graham is flirting with Paige while dating Sarah the girl he thought was his soul mate.

This is such a cute holiday story! Chelsea Bobulski did a great job creating the atmosphere of Christmas, Virginia. I really felt for Graham as the main character who makes a wish on a shooting star and then really learns a lesson.

Thank you to Wise Wolf Publishing and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this in exchange for my honest opinion.

This was my least favorite of the four. I really didn't like the ending and didn't think the main character was particularly likeable. Also not a very interesting setup. But the rest of the series is much better!

This was such a fun, fast, YA holiday romance. Graham Wallace is in love with Sarah Clarke (the girl next door), but she's dating his best friend. On his walk home, Graham talks to himself, wishing that Sarah Clarke was his girlfriend. As he's talking, a shooting star zooms by in the sky. The next day, Graham is dating Sarah Clarke--his wish came true! But, is this really what Graham wanted or will he learn that Sarah was never supposed to be his girlfriend?

This book had a underdeveloped characters and became heavily Christian at the end, but overall, this was super enjoyable to read! Thanks for the e-ARC Netgalley and Wise Wolf Books!

Plot:
Graham Wallace has been in love with the girl next door for a decade. Unfortunately, she's been dating his best friend for the past two years. Out of sheer desperation, Graham makes a wish on a shooting star. All he wants for Christmas is Sarah Clarke.

When Graham wakes up the next morning, everything has changed, and he's the one who's been dating Sarah for the past two years, not his best friend. Graham assumes the wish would have only come true if he and Sarah were meant to be together, but as it becomes clear that he and Sarah bring out the worst in each other, not the best, and as he starts to fall for the new girl in town, Graham wonders if some wishes come true in order to show us what's not meant to be.

Thoughts:
I'm not going to lie when I read the reviews for this one I was a little nervous because some of people's opinions. They made it seem like this book was super sexist and they didn't really paint a good picture of the main character.

However, having read it myself I do not agree with the reviews. I love that it was a male narrator. This is the first one I have read that wasn't a dual perspective. I was a little nervous about it being a teenage boy because well, teen boy thoughts, but honestly the book is really good. I loved the whole premise of him wishing for something and it happens only for him to see that it's not quite what he wanted. It was very interesting. I read it in just a couple hours. If you want a cute and slightly different holiday read than this is for you. I really enjoyed it and I will be reading the other 3 in the series.

TW: Eating disorder

Thank you so much to NetGalley for the chance to read this book!

This book was so sweet! I love the characters so much and the author did a amazing job writing them.

When I started reading I thought I would love this book. It was a fast paced, Christmas love story which was just what I was looking for.
As time went on, Graham, the main character, started to get on my nerves. His wish was granted and he had "everything he wanted" yet he was still unhappy. I get it was an alternate universe, but I hated the way he treated Sarah, the girl he loved forever. He was mean and unsupportive, and on top of that, <spoiler>was basically trying to cheat on her the whole book. </spoiler>
Sarah was an okay character, I didn't like or dislike her.
Piper was probably my favorite. She was a bookworm who wasn't afraid to tell it like it is or call Graham out on his crap. I feel like Piper and I could be friends.
At the end of the book, there was suddenly <b>a lot</b> of Christianity? Like, church was offhandedly mentioned a couple times in the book but at the end it was kind of in your face. It felt very forced.
All in all, this was an okay book. If you want a fast, Christmas love story, this is it. I just hope you aren't looking for lovable characters.

This was such a delightful Christmas romance. Graham lives in Christmas, Virginia where it's practically celebrated throughout the whole year. He lives next door to his best friend, Sarah, and has harbored feelings for her for two years. She's dating their other friend Jeremy, and while he doesn't resent their relationship, Graham literally wishes for her to be with him. Graham is amazed he's in a universe where he's dating Sarah. It isn't until complications with Jeremy, and unexpected feelings for the new girl, Piper, make his wish undesirable. While most of the stuff is to be expected, I really enjoy stories like this with not much drama and just Graham trying to figure out what he really wants.

Received from Publisher via Netgalley for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the arc of All I want For Christmas is the Girl Next Door by Chelsea Bobulski.

A young adult retelling of a Christmas classic. Graham has been in love with his best friend and neighbour Sarah for his entire life but she doesn't feel the same. As winter formal approaches and Graham has promised to find a date and attend he wishes on a star that he could take Sarah. What happens when his wish is granted? He finds out that not everything is as he expected.

I really enjoyed this as a cute Christmas story. I appreciated that it was short and while the ending definitely took me by surprise I wasn't as mad at it as I could have been. It's a fun Christmas story with an alternate timeline so it doesn't have to make sense all the time. I also appreciated that while this was a Christian romance story there was only one section where it was really pushed into your face by Bobulksi and that wasn't lingered over and quickly moved on to the remaining bits of the story.

I thought there could have been a more satisfying ending with Graham simply returning to his original timeline rather than having to endure what actually happened but either way the story had a happily ever after ending and brightened my day.

Unfortunately, this is a DNF for me. I read most of the “…Boy I Can’t Have” installment and liked it okay enough. Then started this and find it’s basically the same exact story with different names. Two people emotionally cheating and everything being awkward.